Charity News from Wednesday, Apr. 5, 2000Silent March to Mark Gun Death Toll of U.S. YouthAmerican Humane Association | On April 11th the national grassroots organization Silent March will display, on the west steps of the State Capitol, 4,223 pairs of empty shoes representing children and youth killed by guns in a single year. The Colorado Silent March is being ... AJC Urges U.S. Reject Anti-Semitic Activity In Arab World American Jewish Committee | American Jewish Committee Executive Director David A. Harris today urged the United States Congress to give "urgent attention" to the shocking revival of vitriolic anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial across the Arab world. "Holocaust denial ... American Refugee Committee Urges More Help for Rwanda American Refugee Committee | ARC has been working in Rwanda since 1994, when it helped to rebuild the health infrastructure to serve returning refugees. ARC now operates in the Gihembe Refugee Camp in Byumba Prefecture, which houses Tutsi refugees from the Democratic ... AmeriCares and Nature Center Nursery School Team Up to Plant Hope in Haiti AmeriCares Foundation | Children enrolled in the Beginners Nature Program at the New Canaan Nature Center recently completed a successful seed drive on behalf of AmeriCares. Priscilla Woyke, Director of the Nature Center Nursery School and Anne Harper, Director of the ... AmeriCares Founder Bob Macauley Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of His Vietnam Babylift AmeriCares Foundation | Robert C. Macauley, the Founder of AmeriCares, today celebrates the 25th anniversary of his historic orphan airlift out of Vietnam. A day after a U.S. Airforce C-5A crashed near Saigon on April 4, 1975, killing more than 100 of the children on ... Thousands to Gather in Washington to Support Debt Relief Bread for the World | WASHINGTON - Ten thousand people are expected to gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, April 9, to call for debt relief for the world's poorest countries. Many poor countries with large international debts divert important ... Study Finds Control has Role in Health Effects of Hard-Driving Personality Duke University Medical Center | Contrary to popular belief, people with hard-driving, control-oriented personalities are not necessarily at greater risk for high blood pressure, heart attacks and other stress-related ailments unless they are unable to exert that control. Ehrlichiosis Now Second Most Prevalent Tick-Associated Disease, Yale Study Shows Yale School of Medicine | Ehrlichiosis, a recently described disease that causes flu-like symptoms similar to Lyme disease, is now the second most common tick-transmitted ailment in southeastern Connecticut, a Yale study shows.
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