Humanitarian Aid

Gaza floods destroy 250 tents at one camp; NGO presses Bundestag

Bonn – November 10, 2026 -- Weekend rains destroyed 250 tents and badly damaged 500 more at a single Gaza camp, Welthungerhilfe said, as the German aid organization urged the Bundestag to raise humanitarian funding to €2.8 billion.

Half of Gaza's displacement camps sit in high flood-risk zones

About half of the camps, which house nearly one million people, lie in areas with a high risk of flooding, according to Welthungerhilfe Secretary General Mathias Mogge. Some sites are low-lying sandy ground where water collects quickly and ruins tarps, mattresses and food. Others have clay soils that turn into mud flats, destroying belongings and flooding latrines.

Welthungerhilfe operates a bread-baking oven at the Al Ard Al Tayyeba camp in Khan Younis, where 800 families have taken shelter. The 250 destroyed and 500 badly damaged tents were all at that site.

Dr. Miklos Toth Named Inner Circle Life Achiever 2026 for OB/GYN Work

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Dr. Miklos Toth Named Inner Circle Life Achiever 2026 for OB/GYN Work

New York – October 02, 2026 -- The Inner Circle has named Miklos Toth, M.D., a Life Achiever 2026 for more than 35 years of contributions to obstetrics and gynecology, recognizing both his clinical research and humanitarian medical work in Uganda.

Dr. Toth co-founded a rural Ugandan health center that operates monthly outreach clinics

Dr. Toth and his wife, Elena Toth, established the Millennium Health Foundation and the Miklos and Elena Toth Health Center, located roughly 400 kilometers northeast of Kampala. The center delivers general obstetrics and gynecology services, with a focus on infectious disease management and 3-D Doppler ultrasound screening, operating on the first Saturday of each month and extending on-site screening to neighboring parishes. The foundation's first community initiative, Elena's Boutique, opened in July 2012 as a women's clothing shop supporting local economic independence.

Study: Prosperity Seen as Collective, Not Individual Wealth

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Study: Prosperity Seen as Collective, Not Individual Wealth

Portland, Ore. – September 16, 2026 -- Material wealth was cited in fewer than 10 percent of conversations about prosperity in five of six countries surveyed, according to a new report from Prosper Global, formerly Mercy Corps.

Research spans 1,100 people across six conflict- and climate-affected nations

The report, titled "What It Means to Prosper," draws on 396 individual and group conversations with more than 1,100 people in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Indonesia, Kenya, Syria, and Ukraine. Rather than impose a definition, researchers asked participants to describe prosperity and its barriers in their own words.