UN food chief commits to 24-hour hunger strike to draw attention to the 1 billion chronically malnourished

By Jennifer Browning
Because Rome’s U.N. Food and Agriculture offices are unheated at night, U.N. Food Chief Jacques Diouf bundled up with a hat, scarf and overcoat over his pajamas and spent the night on a makeshift mattress in an effort to draw attention to the 1 billion chronically malnourished people before next week’s U.N. food [...]

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UTHSCSA wins $10,000 grant for Project Medishare on Ideablob.com

By Jennifer Browning
Since their first partnering trip with Project Medishare in December 2008, University of Texas Health and Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA) has been working toward raising enough money to send two medical groups to Haiti in 2010.
They received quite a boost after the group won a $10,000 grant from Ideablob.com this month.
UTHSCSA [...]

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Project Medishare’s Dr. Barth Green joins panel discussion in Washington D.C.

By Jennifer Browning
In November, Project Medishare’s Co-Founder, Dr. Barth Green will join UN’s Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer  and Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph during the panel discussion “Meeting the challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A progress report from the poorest country in the Americas.”
The panel [...]

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UM fraternity repairs and donates computers to Project Medishare’s health care workers

By Jennifer Browning
Last Spring, juniors Ananth Sastry and Ashish Shah from University of Miami’s Delta Epsilon Psi Fraternity boarded their flight to Port-au-Prince with four newly repaired computers. Health care agents now use those computers in participation with Project Medishare’s Community Health Program.
The fraternity, which joined UM’s greek life last Fall, voluntarily [...]

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