The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was set up in 1943, to provide humanitarian relief to the huge numbers of potential and existing refugees in areas facing Allied liberation.

Keele along with Dundas West were considered the potential stations for the northwestern terminus of Phase Two of the proposed Downtown Relief Line.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

Botswana is one of the 15 focus countries for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, and has received more than $ 230 million since the program began in January 2004 through September 2007.

The largest is a Food for Peace school lunch program administered by Catholic Relief Services.

The " Florida Keys for Katrina Relief " had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem.

On 14 March 2009 the band joined Neil's older son, Liam Finn, on stage for three songs at the Sound Relief concert in Melbourne.

Responding to favorable public opinion to alleviate unemployment Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, on 8 April 1935, which included continued funding for the CCC program through 31 March 1937.

* 1949 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

LaGuardia was the director general for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) in 1946.

* Both the books Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, which were written by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling as a way to raise funds for Comic Relief, are written as reference books for the wizarding world.

So far, franchise agreements are covered under two standard commercial laws: the Contract Act 1872 and the Specific Relief Act 1963, which provide for both specific enforcement of covenants in a contract and remedies in the form of damages for breach of contract.

When Belgium faced a food crisis after being invaded by Germany, Hoover undertook an unprecedented relief effort with the Commission for Relief in Belgium ( CRB ).

After the war, as a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of the American Relief Administration, Hoover organized shipments of food for millions of starving people in Central Europe.

He donated all the files of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the U. S. Food Administration, and the American Relief Administration, and pledged $ 50, 000 as an endowment.

The final attempt of the Hoover Administration to rescue the economy occurred in 1932 with the passage of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, which authorized funds for public works programs and the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation ( RFC ).

On September 2, 2005, Harry Connick, Jr., helped to organize, and appeared in, the NBC-sponsored live telethon concert, A Concert for Hurricane Relief, for relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Rollins has also campaigned for various political causes in the United States, including promoting LGBT rights, World Hunger Relief, and an end to war in particular, and tours overseas with the United Service Organizations to entertain American troops.

Numerous other new agencies also targeted the medical and morale needs of soldiers, including the United States Christian Commission as well as smaller private agencies such as the Women's Central Association of Relief for Sick and Wounded in the Army ( WCAR ) founded in 1861 by Henry Whitney Bellows, and Dorothea Dix.

Upon Philby's graduation, Maurice Dobb – a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and tutor in economics – introduced him to the World Federation for the Relief of the Victims of German Fascism in Paris.

Harry Hopkins testified to Congress during January 1935 why he set the number at 3. 5 million, using Federal Emergency Relief Administration data.

* Several centuries BC: ( Relief carvings made at this time show Assyrian soldiers crossing rivers using inflated goatskin floats.

For 2007, Linkin Park decided to make the tour ostensibly " green " by donating $ 1 of every ticket to American Forests through their charity Music for Relief and using biodiesel on a majority of their buses, eliminating an estimated 350 tons of carbon emissions.

* 2011 American Institute of Philanthropy: Catholic Relief Services was named a top-rated charity and given the rating of A + by AIP for efficiently using the majority of funds toward programming versus fundraising.

World Relief ’ s core programs focus on microfinance, AIDS prevention and care, maternal and child health, child development, agricultural training, disaster response, refugee resettlement and immigrant services.

In 1928, the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association started a tuberculosis sanitarium in the form of a small tent city on of land south of Duarte Road.

For example, before Catholic Emancipation was introduced with the Catholic Relief Act of 1829, Catholics were forbidden from voting, becoming MP's or buying land in Ireland.

In Great Britain and Ireland, the first Catholic Relief Act was passed in 1778 ; subject to an oath renouncing Stuart claims to the throne and the civil jurisdiction of the Pope, it allowed Roman Catholics to own property, inherit land, and join the army.

The song was restored to the original lyrics ( including the ' There was a big high wall there ' and ' Nobody living can ever stop me ' verses ) for this performance ( as per Pete Seeger's request ) with the exception of a change in the end of the ' Relief Office ' verse to " As they stood hungry, I stood there whistling, This land was made for you and me.

As time went on oaths and tests that barred non-conformists and Catholics from public offices, school keeping, and owning land were rescinded by laws such as Roman Catholic Relief Act 1778 ; Roman Catholic Charities Act 1832 ; Test Abolition Act 1867 ; Promissory Oaths Act 1868 ; Promissory Oaths Act 1871 ; and the Oaths Act 1978.

* Relief of a landscape, the third or vertical dimension of land surface

The first – primarily composed of land speculators who had bought large land parcels on credit and were unable to repay their debts due to the financial crisis – was dubbed the Relief Party or faction and favored more legislation favorable to debtors.

Today this approximates to the land off Brinsworth Street below the bridge which carries the Inner Relief Road over the railway.

The largest U. S. Government programs are the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ( PEPFAR ) and the President's Malaria Initiative, which aim to reduce the impact of these debilitating diseases in Rwanda.

In another essay in the book, titled " The Generic City ", Koolhaas declares that progress, identity, architecture, the city and the street are things of the past: “ Relief … it ’ s over.

Hot standby nets are in constant operation 24 / 7 / 365 for International Emergency and Disaster Relief communications.

Relief techniques include: woodcut or woodblock as the Asian forms are usually known, wood engraving, linocut and metalcut ;

Societal legacies are showcased in the way many institutions responded to the people left destitute because of the wars, some of the oldest homeless shelters in London were a direct response to this, such as The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor.

Ananda Marga counts hundreds of missions around the world through which its members carry out various forms of selfless service on Relief ( The social welfare and development organization under AMPS is Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team, or AMURT., Education and women's welfare ( The service activities of this section founded in 1963 are focused on: 1-Education: creating and managing primary, post primary and higher schools, research institutes etc., 2-Relief: creating and managing children's and students ' homes for destitute children and for poor students, cheap hostels, retiring homes, academies of light for deaf dumb and crippled, invalid homes, refuge reabilitation etc., 3-Tribal: tribal welfare units, medical camps etc., 4-Women's welfare: women welfare units, women's homes, nursing homes etc.

The new immigrants were unwilling ( or perhaps unable ) to cooperate with the Relief Committee: among the list of 1, 153 victims treated at the makeshift hospital in the Central High School, prepared by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, no names of Eastern European derivation are listed.

Trains bring homeless children ( Displaced Persons or DPs ), who are taken by Mrs. Murray ( Aline MacMahon ) and other United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) workers to a nearby transit camp, where they are fed and cared for.

Following the passing of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 Moore believed his involvement in politics terminated, joking to a friend: " Now that the Paddies are happy ...

As of May 2011, there are 12 " Guides " in total: Medicine, Natural History, Arts, Philosophy, The English, Society, Law & Order, The Future, The Human Body, The Earth, The World Cup 2010 & Comic Relief.

Similar programs are evolving in Africa and Southeast Asia with the assistance of organizations like IFAD, Opportunity International, Catholic Relief Services, Compassion International, CARE, APMAS, Oxfam, Tearfund and World Vision.

( The thickness of the ink is greatly exaggerated for illustration ) Relief print is a printmaking process where protruding surface faces of the matrix ( printing plate or block ) are inked ; recessed areas are ink free.

In light of events in the Potter books, several tongue-in-cheek references to " new information " are indicated by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley's doodles in Harry's version of the book ( as published for Comic Relief ).

Although the denominations cooperate through Lutheran World Relief and military chaplaincy, they are not officially in communion with each other.

Disaster relief efforts of Jehovah's Witnesses are typically channeled through permanent local Disaster Relief Committees under the various branch offices, and are staged at Kingdom Halls and Assembly Halls as close as practical to the disaster area.

Since 2005 McCall has been one of the co-presenters of the annual British charity telethons are organised by Comic Relief.

As of July 2008, the books combined are estimated to have earned over $ 30 million for Comic Relief.

Qualifying electric vehicles purchased new are eligible for a one-time federal tax credit that equals 10 % of the cost of the vehicle up to $ 4, 000, provided under Section 179A of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 ; it was extended through 2007 by the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004.

Joseph F. Smith, an influential Mormon leader around the turn of the 20th century, argued that though Mormon women were not ordained as general authorities, elders, or high priests, they are admitted to an " ecclesiastical or priestly authority " through the Relief Society, which may include holding offices within the church through that organization.