On an average day,it says, almost twenty-seven thousand doctors, nurses and others work in teams of local and foreign aid workers.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The Curator's Grant-in-Aid program is for those who get good grades and take part in university activities.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The Copenhagen Accord sets a goal of one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to help poor nations with climate control by twenty-twenty.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

The World Bank and two European development banks agreed last week to provide up to thirty-one billion dollars in aid to central and eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

Hungary's prime minister,Ferenc Gyurscany, has called for two hundred thirty billion dollars in aid for the weakest of the twenty-seven members of the European Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

But this week, Tiger Woods appeared in a black-and-white television aid for sportswear maker Nike.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

Congress included state aid in the two-year stimulus plan approved in February.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

In nineteen-fifty-six Congress passed a law called the Federal-Aid Highway Act.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

But it was not enough. By November, the government had extended a total of about 150 billion dollars in aid to A.I.G - the most to any single company during the crisis.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

"It is true to say that European Union aid levels were up last year - 49 billion euros in 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Billions of dollars in aid have poured into Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 ousted the Taliban from power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

And last month, President Lee Myung-bak pledged tens of millions of dollars in development aid to Vietnam and Cambodia.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

He says very little money has been given to the non-governmental agencies, which are important in the distribution of this aid.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency - or UNRWA - is the largest aid provider in Gaza.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

The agreement means Madagascar's cash-poor government will receive or 930 million dollars in aid that had been blocked after the March coup.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The NATO-led international force in Afghanistan sent troops to the scene to aid Afghan soldiers and police.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

He also pledged one-point-five billion dollars in aid to Pakistan, each year for the next five years, to improve its security forces and economy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The Senate could act on the $91-billion bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and provide aid to Pakistan as early as this week.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-wracked Helmand province, due in part to its policy of treating all patients.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Washington has provided material aid to the Calderon government and is coordinating anti-cartel efforts with Mexican authorities, using the Drug Enforcement Administration office in Houston as the spearhead.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Tiziana Bonapace,a senior economist with the UNESCAP, says developing countries need financial aid to assist them in developing low-emission technologies and agriculture methods and ensuring poverty reduction policies are maintained.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The organization more recently has called for the government to allow unhindered access to aid workers in make-shift camps that house hundreds of thousands of Tamils, including women and children.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

Braima says the international community must prepare for a mass exodus of refugees from Darfur by pre-positioning aid in Chad, the Central African Republic and areas within Sudan where people are likely to go.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

The same media that in 2005 showed U.S.helicopters distributing aid to earthquake victims in remote areas of Pakistan, are now showing drone attacks on al-Qaida and Taliban militants every day - alongside civilian casualties.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

The package under which Pakistan is to get $1.5 billion in U.S.non-military aid in each of the next five years was hailed by both governments when it was overwhelmingly approved by the House and Senate last month.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Alex Ocean, an elementary school teacher whose Port-au-Prince school is now closed because of the quake, says he hopes that aid distribution in the camp will become better organized and that there will be international help with reconstruction.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The government's outright rejection for a truce with Tamil Tiger rebels came a day after the European Union said the situation of civilians trapped in the war zone is dangerous and called for a cease-fire to allow humanitarian aid into the region.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17