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  2. National Disaster Response Force - Wikipedia

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    The force carried out rescue operations, evacuating stranded people and providing them with essential relief materials. [39] NDRF was instrumental in minimising the loss of life during the cyclone that hit Odisha. The force was involved in preemptive evacuations, search and rescue operations, and distribution of relief materials. [40]

  3. Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation - Wikipedia

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    Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation is a 1996 charity record that featured a variety of alternative rock bands covering songs written by quadriplegic musician Vic Chesnutt. Some of the artists were picked to give the album an international appeal to raise more funds for the Sweet Relief Fund , which assists musicians in need of health care.

  4. Code of Hammurabi - Wikipedia

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    The relief on the Louvre stele. The relief appears to show Hammurabi standing before a seated Shamash. [23] Shamash wears the horned crown of divinity [50] and has a solar attribute, flames, [51] spouting from his shoulders. [52] Contrastingly, Scheil, in his editio princeps, [27] identified the seated figure as Hammurabi and the standing ...

  5. UNRWA - Wikipedia

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    UNRWA operations, as of 1 January 2017. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East [a] (UNRWA, pronounced / ˈ ʌ n r ə / UN-rə) [b] is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees.

  6. Pilot-operated relief valve - Wikipedia

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    PORV are also called pilot-operated safety valve (POSV), pilot-operated pressure relief valve (POPRV), or pilot-operated safety relief valve (POSRV), depending on the manufacturer and the application. Technically POPRV is the most generic term, but PORV is often used generically (as in this article) even though it should refer to valves in ...

  7. Poor Relief Act 1601 - Wikipedia

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    The Poor Relief Act 1601 [1] (43 Eliz. 1.c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601, popularly known as the Elizabethan Poor Law, the "43rd Elizabeth", [a] or the "Old Poor Law", [b] was passed in 1601 and created a poor law system for England and Wales.

  8. Society of Saint Vincent de Paul - Wikipedia

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    Expenditures to people in poverty were $473,821,563. Programs include visits to homes, prisons, and hospitals, housing assistance, disaster relief, job training and placement, food pantries, dining halls, clothing, transportation and utility costs, care for the elderly, and medicine. [29] Revenue is raised through a large network of thrift ...

  9. Download to Donate: Tsunami Relief - Wikipedia

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    Download to Donate: Tsunami Relief (sometimes known as Download to Donate for Japan) is a compilation of songs by Music for Relief from different artists in which the proceeds went to Save the Children that helped the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.