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In response to the testing shortage in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, CORE set up and operated testing sites across the country, working in collaboration with local and state governments to open new sites as well as take over existing sites. [14] As of August 2020, CORE has administered more than 1.3 million free COVID-19 tests ...
Sailors’ Society's Crisis Response Network provides a rapid response trauma care and counselling service for survivors of piracy attacks, natural disasters and crises at sea. The network includes over 50 crisis responders, specially trained in trauma support, and operates globally to support seafarers and their families. [citation needed]
American soldier instructing Senegalese soldiers on U.N. peacekeeping policies during training for the African Crisis Response Initiative in Thiès, Senegal.. The African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program, formerly the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), is a United States program to train military trainers and equip African national militaries to conduct ...
Google Crisis Response is a team within Google.org that "seeks to make critical information more accessible around natural disasters and humanitarian crises". [1] The team has responded in the past to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2010 Pakistan floods, 2010–11 Queensland floods, February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami among other events, [2] using ...
Humanitarian aid generally refers to the provision of immediate, short-term relief in crisis situations, such as food, water, shelter, and medical care. Humanitarian assistance, on the other hand, encompasses a broader range of activities, including longer-term support for recovery, rehabilitation, and capacity building. [ 3 ]
As a response, CHIRLA began to take initiative to inform and make undocumented immigrants aware of the program and its consequences through factsheets and other resources. [7] In 2006, CHIRLA was a part of the We Are America Alliance , which partook in the 2006 United States Immigration Reform Protests , advocating for immigration reform and ...
Meier is a co-founder of WeRobotics, [1] [13] the founder of the Humanitarian UAV Network (also known as UAViators), and a co-founder of Kathmandu Flying Labs. [10] Meier co-founded the Digital Humanitarian Network with United Nations official Andrej Verity. [1] Meier is the author of the book Digital Humanitarians. [14] [2]
The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) is an American organization dedicated to identifying and predicting the spread of ideologically motivated threats (e.g. hate groups), disinformation, and misinformation across social media platforms and physical spaces.