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World Relief  

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  • WORLD RELIEF PERTAINS to the easing of a burden or distress such as economic insecurity, hunger, disease, anxiety, or economic and political oppression for the world and its inhabitants. World relief efforts are directed at overcoming the causes of poverty and the indignity and sense of poor self-worth that it causes, both locally and globally. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; World Relief]

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