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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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