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March 2010
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Big overflow for 'Crowdsourcing innovative social...
Naked Pizza for New Orleans. Then...the world....
January 2010
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El trabajo de Cáritas en Haití
comentar | reenviar | imprimir—> imprimir REDACCIÓN CÁCERES - 25-01-10 Imagen de ayuda que proporciona Cáritas en Haití ...
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Social Media Revolutionises Disaster Response for...
By Kate Ausburn On Tuesday January 12th, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The earthquake has destroyed the nations capital of Port-au-Prince including the Parliament building, the United Nations national headquarters, the hospital, the prison and many homes and businesses. Tens of thousands are dead and millions displaced in an event that United Nations...
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Oxfam launch action calling on IMF to Drop the...
Help Haiti today and tomorrow: Cancel the debt Our biggest concern right now is dealing with the immediate aftermath of the humanitarian disaster caused by the devastating earthquake. But in our concern to help those suffering, let’s not forget the long term. Take the action now The world’s attention is focused on Haiti. Leaders are pledging to stand shoulder...
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Oxfam America Blog » Blog Archive » In Haiti,...
Oxfam’s Coco McCabe is one of several Boston-based colleagues on her way to Haiti to help with the relief effort, where they will join over 200 Oxfam staff already on the ground. Here’s her latest update, dated January 18. I suspect tonight might be my last night of sleeping soundly. Aftershocks are continuing to rattle the nerves of people in Port-au-Prince. “Be careful,” said Yves...
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Helen Hawking: My Story From the Earthquake
January 12 It had been an average day in the office, conference calls, report writing, fighting off the mosquitoes that plague us here in Haiti. My clock showed just 10 minutes until it was time to leave for the day, when without any warning the ground made slight movements, which rapidly became violent. The earth shook harder than I have ever felt before, I ran to...
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Haiti Relief Effort Update - Oxfam Australia
via youtube.com
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BBC News - UK charities prepare to deliver Haiti...
UK aid efforts are underway to help earthquake hit Haiti, where the death toll is thought to be over 100,000. Hygiene is the key challenge facing Oxfam’s aid workers, and its Bicester warehouse is piled high with equipment to establish sanitation and a clean water supply. The items including water testing kits, buckets and disposable latrines are essential for saving lives in the...
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Red Cross Blogs - Getting aid to Haiti quake...
Getting aid to Haiti quake survivors By Pete Garratt January 15, 2010 at 4:22 pm Forgive me for not blogging earlier but it’s been hard to get a moment to gather my thoughts since Tuesday night, when my phone went as I was just on my way to bed. I received a text alerting me to the Haiti quake – which was 7.0 on the Richter scale. From my knowledge of the country I knew that...
Avaaz - HELP HAITI: DROP THE DEBT
HELP HAITI: DROP THE DEBT As Haiti begins to receive desperately needed funds to cope with the earthquake, it still owes hundreds of millions of dollars in debt — a legacy of loans from global financial institutions and donor nations to unelected governments of years past. If these debts aren’t cancelled, Haiti will be sending tens of millions to the Inter-American...
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VIDEO: Oxfam Australia's Haiti Earthquake Appeal
via youtube.com
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American Red Cross Releases $10 Million to Help...
Priority needs are food, water, shelter, medical help WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With estimates that as many as three million people may be affected by the catastrophic earthquake which hit Haiti Tuesday, the American Red Cross is releasing an additional $9 million for earthquake relief, bringing its total commitment so far...
AUDIO: Louis Belanger of Oxfam Headed to Haiti
Louis’s Phlog - 3Rd. Download now or listen on posterous ipadio_15967_Louis_s_phlog_-_3rd_phonecast.mp3 (302 KB) Louis will provide regular updates. He is heading to Santo Domingo, DR from New York and then into Haiti on Wednesday.
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U.S. sending disaster response teams to Haiti |...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agency for International Development is sending disaster response teams to Haiti to help the impoverished nation after it was hit by a major earthquake on Tuesday. via reuters.com
Haiti's White House - Palais Nationale...in...
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Oxfam team in place for Haiti earthquake response...
PORT-AU-PRINCE—Following a major earthquake near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, international aid agency Oxfam announced that its teams are ready to respond. Oxfam’s emergency team based in the capital will be responding with public health, water and sanitation services to prevent the spread of waterborne disease. “The first step in an emergency will be getting clean water to...
Oxfam Launches Haiti Earthquake Emergency Appeal |...
Oxfam New Zealand has launched an emergency appeal following the Haiti earthquake today and welcomes donations from the public. Oxfam is preparing to respond with humanitarian assistance following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti. Oxfam has an emergency response team for Latin America based in Haiti’s capital Port au Prince ready to respond. Statement from Jane Cocking, humanitarian...
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Oxfam prepared to respond to Haiti Earthquake
Aid group Oxfam said it had emergency response teams in the region poised to respond. “At this stage it is too early to tell the severity of the earthquake in Haiti, but the early signs are not good with communications down across the country,” said Jane Cocking, the charity’s humanitarian director. “Oxfam has its emergency response team for Latin America based in Haiti...
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One in 10 births around world premature, WHO... →
One in 10 of the some 130 million births around the world each year is premature, the vast majority in poorer countries where chances of survival are low, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
December 2009
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Changing the Battle Against AIDS in South Africa |... →
Yesterday on World AIDS Day, South Africa was in the news quite a bit. The executive director of UNAIDS was in Pretoria for the commemoration and along with South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, called for greater HIV prevention measures. South Africa has the largest population of person’s living with HIV-nearly 6 million people. Globally, women are disproportionally affected by HIV and AIDS as...
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Data shows progress needed on HIV testing and... →
The data shows there has been significant progress in some countries in both treatment to avoid mother-to-child transmission and testing of pregnant women for HIV. Treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission is now provided to 95 per cent of those in need in Botswana, 91 per cent in Namibia and 73 per cent in South Africa — all countries with high HIV prevalence. Progress is...
November 2009
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UN: Fight climate change with free condoms -... →
climatevoice:
“As the growth of population, economies and consumption outpaces the Earth’s capacity to adjust, climate change could become much more extreme and conceivably catastrophic,” the report said.
The world’s population will likely rise from the current 6.7 billion to 9.2 billion in 2050, with most of the growth in less developed regions, according to a 2006 report by the United...
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Google creates new data visualization with World... →
Of course, a geographic breakdown of Twitter users isn’t available in any public data sets or api. Let’s try something more useful like the maternal mortality rate in Sierra Leone. Google gives me a list of links, some more useful than others, but the answer certainly does not pop to the top. I try Wolfram Alpha and get a result that cannot be right: “483 deaths per year.”
Search result for...
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October 2009
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Bill to Increase Access to Contraception Is... →
This is important. How can the Catholic Church constantly miss that they are sentencing the poor to dangerous births, abortions, and disease by their unbiblical and dangerous stance on contraception and education.
September 2009
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WatchA mother who helps run KCMetromoms.com tweeted the birth of her son. Congratulations Candy Tai. Never underestimate the power of mommy bloggers!
(via CNN.com)
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Queen Rania of Jordan: Maternal Mortality →
Queen Rania, Wendi Deng Murdoch and Indra Nooyi posted in Huffingtonpost about Maternal Mortality after a special dinner this week in New York that Sarah Brown hosted.
With the eyes of the world on New York for the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations, we welcomed more than 300 of the world’s most influential women for dinner Wednesday night. The topic of conversation was an issue...
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Live-Tweeting Clinton Global Iniative closing...
Tumblr didn’t like the embed so I posted here:
http://www.whitebandaction.org/en/global-poverty/09-09-25-live-tweeting-clinton-global-initiative-closing-plenary
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Sarah Brown: A Changing Tide of Opinion for Girls... →
Saving and improving the lives of girls and women is central to tackling every issue — whether poverty, nutrition, education, child health, economic prosperity, environment — of, in short, saving the world. And one of the greatest gaps has been in addressing maternal health which has prevented the achievement of any real development progress for decades.
Do you know that it is still...
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Live-Tweeting the Maternal, Child and Newborn...
I wasn't sure if I was going inside and left my laptop behind, thus, the following tweeting ensued until my battery died.
tweet: #Norway at the #UN: we need more results-based financing and more funds for awareness education for mothers. #mchealth #healthabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
tweet: Room breaks into applause as Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf announces universal free #health coverage for Liberia that gov't will make permanentabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
tweet: Ghana Prez announces free coverage for children 8 and under and pregnant. #mchealth #healthabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
tweet: Great to see @WHO DG Chan and Zoellick from the @worldbank here. Does this mean the death of user fees?hooray! #health #mchealthabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck
tweet: Gordon Brown just called out healthcare user fees. "We" gave bad development advice that caused millions of deaths. #health #mchealthabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck
tweet: Inside the UN for maternal and child health briefing. Coverage at http://www.mchealth.tumblr.com
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Fee on Airline Tickets Will Help Fight... →
A United Nations program that has raised $1.2 billion over the past three years for the treatment of H.I.V./AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis through a small fee added to airline tickets sold in 15 countries is going global.
Starting in January, travelers in the United States and other countries buying airline tickets through some of the world’s largest booking companies — including Travelocity,...
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Can Condoms Save Us From Climate Change? →
According to a new report from the London School of Economics and commissioned by Optimum Population Trust (OPT), using contraception to fight climate change saves nearly five times as much money as your typical low-carbon technology. Carbon credits for condoms, anyone?
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UNICEF - Young child survival and development -... →
There are fewer children than ever dying before they reach their fifth birthday, according to new figures released today by UNICEF.
In 2008, an estimated 8.8 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday. That’s down from 12.5 million in 1990, according to data from a range of United Nations sources, including UNICEF, the World Bank and the World Health Organization.
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Ore's Notes: Female Genital Cutting
This is an interesting article on female genital mutilation or female genital cutting on NEXT: www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5440715-147/story.csp.
For the life of me, I still cannot get my head around why and how this could be considered acceptable.
via orenotes.blogspot.com
August 2009
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Using Technology to Reduce Global Poverty →
Next Big Future is a great blog about techonoogy that ends up dealing with issues of health through their focus on, “Life Extension” and “Nanotechnology.” However, what I found interesting about this post was that one of the key solutions for preventing underweight children has been with us from the beginning: breastfeeding of course. The Big Future for maternal and child...
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SWAZILAND: Bringing Men on Board to Reduce...
…custom prohibits a Swazi man from physical contact with his newborn baby and its mother for a minimum of six months.
A major grant from the Japan Social Development Fund (JDSF) is now trying to change this. In July, the Japanese government awarded Swaziland $2.57 million over three years to improve maternal and child healthcare programmes in the country. The programme, which is expected to...
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