Charity News from Friday, Mar. 9, 2001Miracle Children Experience A Kodak Moment in Washington, D.C.Children's Miracle Network | ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 8, 2001 - Eastman Kodak Company and Children's Miracle Network (CMN) today announced that Kodak will become a presenting sponsor of CMN's Champions Across America program in April. The Champions program features a child ... Rodeway Inn Supports Macular Degeneration Research Foundation Fighting Blindness | (Hunt Valley, MD) March 9, 2001-In a new partnership announced today, Rodeway Inn is teaming up with The Foundation Fighting Blindness to support macular degeneration research. Rodeway Inn, which has 151 hotels throughout the country, will donate... Tattoo removal gives new hope to ex-gang members Mennonite Central Committee | A Honduran Mennonite organization called Red de Paz y Justicia, the Peace and Justice Network, is borrowing this tattoo-removal machine, the only one in Honduras, for use in its own ministry to gang members. Mata explains that the Network ... Congregation raises money for HIV blood testing kits Mennonite Central Committee | AKRON, Pa. -- Jan Emswiler left for Tanzania in September 1998 with the full support of her congregation, Harrisonburg (Va.) Mennonite Church. In the ensuing two years, the congregation twice raised money for blood testing kits, in demand at ... Floods rise across Mozambique Mennonite Central Committee | Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank are responding to the recent floods with relief supplies, seeds and tools valued at $250,000 Cdn. MCC workers Harold Wenger of Mount Joy, Pa., and Cheryl Delaplane of Ames, Okla., ... Earthquake relief requires many tools Mennonite Central Committee | HUIZUCAR, El Salvador -- In the aftermath of two major earthquakes and continuing aftershocks, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is using many tools for emergency relief: food rations, blankets, comfort, hope. In this rural municipality, which has... Demand growing for sanitary dry latrines Mennonite Central Committee | Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is promoting what has become an exciting success story: the lowly, and rather dull-sounding, dry latrine. Impressed, PROSABAR agreed to fund dry latrines and contracted MCC to produce 385 for four communities ... Yek Ineme builds peace in war-scarred El Salvador Mennonite Central Committee | Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) addressed this legacy by creating Yek Ineme, now an independent, Salvadoran-run organization exploring ways to build peace and promote communication. Based in the capital city of San Salvador, Yek Ineme began in ... Eight MCC bike rides planned for 2001 Mennonite Central Committee | AKRON, Pa. -- Beautiful scenery and exercise for a good cause await participants in 2001 bicycle tours that benefit Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). Tri-State Bike Ride, June 16. Scenic hills and pristine nature await riders in this 89.6 ... Kern Road Mennonite Wins Public Policy Advocacy Award Mennonite Central Committee | WASHINGTON -- The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. Washington Office has named Kern Road Mennonite Church, South Bend, Ind., as winner of its first annual congregational advocacy award. In recent years, Kern Road has offered an expanding ... Ongoing Effects of Hepatitis C Virus in St. Jude Cancer Alumni under Study St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | (March 9, 2001, Memphis, Tennessee) The long-term effects of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in former childhood cancer patients are the focus of current studies at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. As they screen former St. Jude patients for the... Study of Schizophrenia Patients Who Hear "Voices" to Continue at Yale Yale School of Medicine | Research at Yale looking at the causes and treatment of auditory hallucinations or "voices" will continue with over $600,000 in combined funding. Protein Regulation Study at Yale Confirms Suspicions on How Hereditary Blindness Occurs Yale School of Medicine | A Yale research team, in collaboration with scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine, have studied signal transduction-the communication system developed by cells-to further understand how hereditary blindness occurs.
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