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Heather Dolphin
Alissa KargAbdallah Ben Mabrou

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Class 6:  February 21, 2008
FORGOTTEN DISASTERS: MALARIA, SUDAN, TSUNAMI,
AND “THE CNN EFFECT”

Does LWR stay when the headlines go away? Absolutely. And we remember the lessons.

Heather Dolphin, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager (bio)
Alissa Karg, Deputy Regional Director, Africa (bio)

International Staff Profiles:
Abdallah Ben Mabrouk, Program Officer, Niger (bio)

This class is brought to you in partnership with
The Lutheran Community Foundation.

CLASS READINGS

Join the Solution, how you can help:

Buy Fair Trade:
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Join the Advocacy Network:
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Assemble Quilts, Kits, and Layettes:
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Give Cash Donations:
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For more information:

Where do LWR Quilts, Kits, and Layettes Go?
2007 Shipping Chart:
download the PDF document >>

LWR Action Alert on Sudan:
visit the website >>

LWR Emergency Response to South Asian Tsunami:
visit the website >>

Reproducible Fact Sheet on Sudan:
visit the website >>

Current LWR News, search according to your interest at this webpage:
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Additional Resources:

SUDAN

FILMS

God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan (2006)
Directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy Walker
With Panther Bior, John Bul Dau, and Nicole Kidman

Lost Boys of Sudan (2004)
Directed by Megan Mylan & Jon Shenk

Darfur Now (2007)
Directed by Ted Braun

Facing Sudan (2007)
a documentary film by Bruce David Janu

BOOKS

NOT ON OUR WATCH:
THE MISSION TO END GENOCIDE IN DARFUR AND BEYOND
(2007)
by Don Cheadle (Author), John Prendergast (Author)

WHAT IS THE WHAT (2007) by Dave Eggers


WEBSITES

World Factbook
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BBC
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Reliefweb
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MALARIA

WEBSITES

World Malaria Report                       
visit the website >>

WHO Fact Sheet
visit the website >>

Unicef Statistics                     
visit the website >>

PMI Technical Areas              
visit the website >>

National Geographic 
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TSUNAMI

ACT International's Tsunami Fact Sheet
download the PDF document >>


 

 

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