‘Busiest year ever’ for Lanarkshire food bank as it feeds thousands of kids

'Busiest year ever' for Lanarkshire food bank as it feeds thousands of kids

A Lanarkshire foodbank has had its busiest year since being founded as the cost of living crisis and the covid-19 pandemic hit locals hard. New figures have revealed that Rutherglen and Cambuslang Foodbank saw figures increase by 25 per cent on their previous high as volunteers helped to feed thousands of locals – including over

With a $2.1 million cure their only hope, Indian parents plead for help online

Rayapudi (left), and Stella Praveen look over their daughter Ellen's medical records on Feb. 14 at the family home in Eluru, India. She was diagnosed with Type 1 spinal muscular atrophy in October.  | SARA HYLTON / THE NEW YORK TIMES

ELURU, India – When her baby started struggling to breathe, Stella Praveen had a terrible feeling that something was gravely wrong with her 14-month-old daughter, Ellen. She ran barefoot to a nearby clinic, but the doctors there said the child needed to see a specialist right away. Without an ambulance, she jumped on the back

50 years after return to Japan, gap remains between Okinawa and rest of country

A shopping arcade in Naha. Among the country's 47 prefectures, Okinawa's average income per capita has stayed at the bottom since fiscal 1989 and the prefecture's child poverty rate stands at 29.9%, more than twice the national average. | REUTERS

It will mark the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15 this year.Since the unique law on advancement in Okinawa was enacted in 1972, the main government has actually taken numerous measures to fix variations between the prefecture and the rest of the country.On Thursday, parliament passed into law a bill to

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