Dear Christopher;

As a health care proffessional deeply involved with international
emergency public health, I subscribe to this network to keep informed
on endeavours and proffessional developments in these areas. I believe
most who subscribe to this network are involved with a wide variety of
NGO's and GO's, who all have their personal stories to tell, or
organization to plug for. However, up until now I have not seen
anybody use this network for free advertising, for a heart strings
tugging show. If anyone is producing a true objective documentary on
the war in Sudan (or anywhere else similarly affected), I think it's
great for us all to hear about it. If it's a nonobjective fundraiser,
focusing on one NGO (despite the many other excellent ones working
there), I believe this forum is inappropriate.
Let's keep this network proffessional, we all get enough emails to not
be swamped by advertising!

Sincerely,

Ann Duggan



---"Christopher L. Byrne, Director"  wrote:
>
> Apologies for Any Cross Posting
>
> More details and Links are avaibale at http://www.idn.org/.
>
>
> 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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