charities

Aya Hijazi, founder of a nonprofit charity that looks after Egyptian street children, sat reading a book inside a holding cell as she faced trial in a courthouse in Cairo, Egypt on March 23.

American charity worker in Egypt is acquitted after three years in jail

April 17, 2017Justice

Her US lawyer says engagement with the Egyptians by the Trump and Obama administrations, as well as by Congress and advocacy groups, helped win her release.

In Ethiopia and other countries, drought related to El Niño is causing a hunger crisis

March 9, 2016Global Politics

Children holding plates wait in a queue to receive food at an orphanage run by a non-governmental organisation in the southern Indian city of Chennai.

Before you write out checks on Giving Tuesday, consider this

December 1, 2015Finance