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Athineos, who is actively involved with the WWO, founded by New York City's "orphan doctor," Jane Aronson, picked the right company to call. Brown and Cirronis, who adopted a baby girl from Nepal in 2005, had watched a documentary on the plight of African orphans just the night before and were searching for a way to help. Businesswise, they had been contemplating the introduction of a more affordable range of their Erbaviva brand. In short, the timing was "amazing," says Brown...
...They were two African-Americans who concentrated in technical disciplines, and they were both profoundly committed to community service and the plight of the disadvantaged,” said Clayton, who is also director of outreach for the non-profit organization created to sponsor the scholarship...
...make these little cubicles of problems,” she added. In addition to the speeches, the conference featured a series of workshops that ranged from “Medical-Legal Partnerships in Child Welfare” to “The Other Elians: Toward Redressing the Plight of Unaccompanied Refugee and Immigrant Children...
...International Studies (CGIS), were part of a six-city U.S. tour organized by Picture Balata, a West Bank-based group dedicated to teaching the youth of the Balata refugee camp about photography. The exhibit, which will remain on the ground floor of CGIS North until April 21, highlighted the plight of the refugee camp, the largest in the West Bank, according to information on the United Nations Web site. In the photographs, emaciated children stare at the camera intensely and what buildings exist are discolored and in disrepair. “We use our photography as a form of resistance...
...Finance Committee Chair of the Undergraduate Council and Crimson editor Alexander N. Li ’08 sympathizes with the plight of the Mock Trial Team, but insists that the UC is at the end of its tether, thus putting Mock Trial outside of the direct criteria for UC grant funding...