quotes on what is happening in the world

'So, it's the ever so popular Firstborn Child of Doom prophecy, huh, ice-boy? How very cliche. Not exactly what I was expecting, though the entire prophecy thing does get old after a while.' He shook himself, seeming to regain his composure, and glanced at Ash.

By the time I was done, Puck was still staring at me openmouthed, struck mute for maybe the second time in his life, and I would've laughed if the situation wasn't so serious. Briefly,I explained what had happened at Elysium, the oracle's mysterious appearance and invitation, and Grimalkin's instruction to meet him at the Wishing Tree. 'I'm pregnant, Puck,' I said quietly, and watched his eyebrows shoot into his hair. 'Live out of your imagination, not your history.' Martin Luther King, Jr. In this pandemic, Yemen must not be forgotten.So, what's the big emergency, princess? You and ice-boy look fine to me, and the Nevernever isn't crumbling around us. 'A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.' Stephen Covey. The numbers may be difficult for us to put into perspective, but the reality is that Yemen is not ready to cope with another crisis. Increased inflation and risk of supply chains being disrupted is likely to lead to food shortages and spikes in food prices - unthinkable in a place like Yemen, where chronic hunger and malnutrition are already common. The impact of the pandemic on livelihoods in the Middle East and North Africa is likely to be unprecedented. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

We are supporting the YRCS to provide emergency health services in Hajjah, in the north, and also providing support to the ICRC, reaching people with safe drinking water and emergency food. Funds raised by the DEC appeal will help us to support the Red Cross Red Crescent response in Yemen as it expands to deal with Covid-19. The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness.

The British Red Cross has long worked with the YRCS, responding to and preparing for crises just like this. YRCS is also providing tents and sleeping mats to those stranded by coronavirus control measures. The Yemen Red Crescent Society (YRCS), supported by a global Red Cross response, is currently providing assistance to people in 15 quarantine facilities across the country. In hospitals, many healthcare workers have no personal protective equipment, let alone access to ventilators and oxygen for patients.

Quotes on what is happening in the world