Word: ngo
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...them was Gaurav “Libby” Yadav ’06, who took time off volunteering at a South Indian NGO to represent India last summer. Yadav ’06 was traveling around Bangalore with roommate Peter J. Doyle ’06 when he heard about the competition—“AXN Xtreme: India v. Pakistan”—sponsored by and then aired on the AXN extreme sports network...
...medical education and his freedom. He laughs about the nearly four years he endured in a forced-labor camp, the decade he spent working with tuberculosis patients in refugee camps along the Thailand-Cambodia border. He laughs about the 20-hr. days he put in getting the NGO he co-founded, the Cambodian Health Committee (CHC), off the ground--the only work that was harder than Khmer Rouge re-education. The one thing Sok Thim, 48, takes absolutely seriously is the right of every patient--no matter how poor, no matter how desperate-- to receive treatment...
...heart of CHC's success has been Sok and Goldfeld's synergistic partnership. "Thim without Anne is just another local NGO leader struggling to start an organization," says Joel Charny, a former member of the CHC board. "Anne without Thim is a Harvard researcher without the connections to get things done." Today CHC is adapting its TB program for Cambodia's growing HIV problem and launching ambitious clinical trials, led by Goldfeld, that will study how to treat patients simultaneously suffering from both diseases. This is CHC at its best--harnessing grassroots programs to find answers to vital medical questions...
...Seeking Future Redemption: The person is only doing this to jumpstart his/her career. After three years, he/she will work for a teary-eyed NGO to aid the starving children of Kirblakastan (and world peace, of course...
...Pyongyang's biggest market this month saw "empty tables, empty stalls" where grain vendors once worked, says WFP spokesman Gerald Bourke, adding that grain seems to have disappeared from roadside kiosks, too. At least one aid group has been told to leave and others are under pressure to go, NGO officials say, although New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who visited Pyongyang last week, said his hosts had assured him that a reduced humanitarian presence will be permitted to remain. The WFP is negotiating to keep some of its operations running, pointing out that a third of women and children...