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...competition and fun and games, the summer competition also provided an opportunity for the athletes to take advantage of health screenings. Thanks to the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Initiative and dozens of volunteers, participants were able to receive free dental, vision, foot, and hearing screenings—as well as massages...
...athletes, that’s their first [health screening],” said Jon Muskrat, special Olympics vice president for marketing and Ddevelopment...
This is not a new book. I suggest it now because it is about the work of Paul Farmer and colleagues who worked with him to found Partners in Health, an organization that has grown to have an important impact on several areas of the world. What caused me to return to this book (after first reading it a few years ago) was the earthquake in Haiti. Reading about the extraordinary challenges that Farmer and his team faced in delivering health care and building community-based programs gave considerable insight to the problems that continue to complicate the recovery...
Paul E. Farmer - Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
...Paul Hawken. Those of us who think of ourselves as (or who have become, reluctantly) leaders of the social-justice movement could stand a reminder that we must also be humble participants in it—and that "our" movement is THE movement, that the fight for access to health care and education and justice and dignity is also the fight for a safer world and one that will sustain us. As Hawken says, "There is no question that the environmental movement is critical to our survival. Our house is literally burning, and it is only logical that environmentalists expect...