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Emmy-Winning Newsmagazine Show Spotlights A Minneapolis Nurse And
Grandmother Serving In Famine-Stricken African Nation


Seattle, July 3, 1998 (IDN) -- The remarkable efforts of a nurse working
in war-ravaged Sudan will be featured in a segment of NBC's "Dateline"
program this evening.

Karen Easterday, 56, of the Minneapolis area, runs a feeding center for
the international Christian relief and development organization. The
center feeds more than 1,000 people a day in Thiet, a small town
southern Sudan.

Easterday, who devotes three months each year to assisting the poor,
also has worked for World Vision in Angola. Her work for World Vision is
supported by Fairview Hospital and Healthcare Service, and the Fairview
Foundation in Minneapolis.

"Maybe being a grandmother makes me especially sensitive to the plight
of these children," Easterday says.

The "Dateline" medical correspondent, Dr. Bob Arnot, traveled to Sudan
in June as a private citizen and physician. After witnessing the famine
firsthand, he said he felt compelled to cover the tragedy as well as the
hope brought to the people of southern Sudan by World Vision staff, such
as Easterday.

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