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home aid

n
(Social Welfare) NZ another name for home help
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Time to review our priorities and it is obvious that the first thing we must stop is foreign aid and start calling it home aid. We need our infrastructure rebuilt to protect the homes and businesses of Britain.
She was also a home aid for the elderly after retirement.
A Tuesday lunch club run by the charity now serves 1,000 dinners-a-year at St Dominic's Church, Crawhall Road, and the charity is the only place in the city occupational therapists and GPs can pick up home aid equipment for free.
The playhouse will be auctioned off during the event's grand gala, with all the proceeds going to Home Aid.
Keen to emphasise this, Arnold'sMotability Roadshow will feature a host of entertainment from radio DJs and chocolate fountains to nail bars, wheelchair tennis and the Honda F1 car, as well as showcasing a selection of home aid suppliers.
This led to her working as a hotel maid, waitress, cleaning woman, nursing home aid and sales clerk.
Coordinating the effort is the N.Y.C.-based Home Aid Distributing Company (HADC), which hopes to recruit 100 to 200 homeless sellers and have a Funny Paper circulation of 50,000 to 100,000 by the end of the year.
UNSTOPPABLE A massive wave destroys everything in its path in Miyako City GRIEF Friends comfort each other RESCUED 3 An OAP gets a piggy back from his home DAZED A woman tries to take in the carnage in Ishimaki City VITAL Hundreds of residents queue for water on a school playground in Sendai CRUSHED Parents stare at the body of their dead daughter in a driving school car TEARFUL A survivor at an emergency centre in Rikuzentakata is overcome with grief DESTROYED A woman searches through rubble for her possessions RESCUED An OAP gets a piggy back from his home AID AT LAST A patient is helped from hospital
9:22 a.m.: Coolidge Place, theft by a home aid worker.
Raiders trashed Home Aid's office in Bathgate, West Lothian and made off with a computer and pounds 700.

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