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Las Mercedes Project
On just about any given day one can walk into the City of Huaquillas garbage dump, located in the community of Las Mercedes, and find a number of children sifting through refuse. With dozens of vultures circling above their heads, these children work for hours amidst the muck and filth without gloves, masks, or any type of protection, while searching for recyclable products to sell in order to help their families survive. Isolation and poverty have wreaked havoc on the lives of the families and children of Las Mercedes, but with your help we can raise $15,000 and change their lives forever. One of the biggest challenges that confronts Las Mercedes is health care. A community diagnostic revealed that 74% of children were sick last year with everything from malaria to dengue fever, while 56% of families reported a grave illness including H1N1. In order to address these health problems that afflict the families of Las Mercedes, a community-based health care project was initiated in January, 2010. In conjunction with the public health department, eight (8) volunteers from Las Mercedes completed a rigorous 3-month training program. They worked side-by-side with doctors on a daily basis and studied over 20 topics relevant to the health needs of their community, including giving vaccinations, treating and preventing malaria, and measuring basic vital signs. After completing this program, the community trainees were certified as health promoters, and now are currently working in Las Mercedes attempting to help prevent any future outbreaks of malaria and the other serious diseases that constantly threaten this community. http://www.lasmercedesproject.org/
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Farmworker Association fighting for justice
Interfaith Worker Justice
The topic of poverty and economic injustice is discussed time and time again in both the Old and New Testaments. Interfaith Worker Justice promotes biblical ideals of social justice. The Chapel is a member of IWJ.
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
This group promotes the Millennium Development Goals and is the Episcopal Church's partner to the ONE Campaign to make poverty history.
Frances Perkins - Another big FAN of St. Bede!
Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor and the first woman to hold a Cabinet post in the United States, was a social reformer who advocated a variety of liberal causes in the interest of workers, including social security, unemployment compensation, minimum wage and maximum hours, and child welfare legislation. A true Labor Day advocate!
Bereavement Support Group
A Young Adult Bereavement Support Group meets on campus at Hillel on Tuesday evenings. If you are grieving the death of a loved one, this free support group may be for you. Once you open the link, click on either "CBC News" or "Groups," then click on "Young Adult Bereavement Support Group."
Speaking of Faith - Podcast by Krista Tippett
Winner of a Peabody Award, Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's weekly program about "religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas." Produced and distributed by American Public Media and currently heard on over 200 public radio stations across the U.S. and globally via the Web and podcast.
Shropshire Music Foundation
The Shropshire Music Foundation's mission is to redress psychosocial trauma, advance emotional health, develop scholastic achievement, foster ethnic tolerance, promote peace, and improve the quality of life for war-affected children and adolescents through the establishment of on-going music education and performance programs. The foundation was conceived in 1999 by Liz Shropshire, a Los Angeles-based music teacher and composer. Since then this remarkable organization has touched the lives of over 9,500 children in Kosovo, Northern Ireland and northern Uganda.
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