Category: Press
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NPR Report from Green Cities Facilitated Visit
NPR host Scott Simon discusses The U.S. Influence on Cuba’s Rapid Cultural Change with guest Mandalit del Barco.
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Lasers may ease pain of Vietnam War ‘napalm girl’
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/25/lasers-may-ease-pain-vietnam-war-napalm-girl/74592268/
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Berkeley to help sister city in Cuba with clean water plan (Berkeleyside.com)
Link: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/02/08/berkeley-aims-to-help-sister-city-in-cuba-with-clean-water-plan/
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Chez Panisse “Planting Seeds in Havana” Project
The Chez Panisse Foundation, Green Cities Fund and Cuba’s Antonio Nunez Jimenez Foundation have embarked on a program to improve the Cuban diet through local, sustainable, organic food production. Chez Panisse founder’s assistant, Varun Mehra reports in the May 2012 issue of ”Paper Magazine” on his exploratory trip to Cuba in March of 2012. http://milwaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5.12-Paper-Mag.doc.pdf
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The Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
In 1972 Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Pierre Dominique Gaisseau traveled to Vietnam and made a film on the hospital Green Cities Fund co-founder Tom Miller established there with renowned reconstructive surgeon Arthur Barsky to treat war-injured children. The film was shown throughout Canada (on CBC) and the U.S. (NBC and PBS). With the help of…
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Barsky Unit Update
Thanh Nien News | Health | Plastic surgeon’s 40-year legacy lives on The present-day National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology in HCMC was formerly known as the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Emily Barksy saw tears in the eyes of one of the nurses who met her and her father when they visited Ho Chi Minh City-based National Hospital of…
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July 25, 2009 at 11:37 a.m. SEATTLE TIMES Travel to Cuba Posted by Bruce Ramsey A reader writes: I’ve read with interest your July 21 column on your visit to Cuba. There are, as you noted, drab state stores where Cubans can use their currency to obtain basic necessities, like beans and rice, but the…
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Microcredit success leads to larger loans
[Link to NYTimes.com article] By Betsy Cummings Published: Thursday, January 27, 2005 It used to be that a $50 microloan to start an embroidery kiosk or other modest enterprise was a gateway out of poverty for women in poor countries. Now, some of them are telling aid groups that that is no longer enough. Rather,…
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SMALL BUSINESS; Tiny Loans Stimulate The Appetite for More
[Link to NYTimes.com article] By BETSY CUMMINGS Published: January 27, 2005 Correction Appended Photo: Bangladeshi women gathered at a home in Dhaka recently to pay installments on microloans they received from Grameen Bank, which was founded to help the poor become small-business owners. (Photo by Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters) It used to be that a $50 microloan…
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Small Victories in Afghanistan
[Link to NYTimes.com article] Published: Sunday, March 21, 2004 The Taliban may be out of power, but the plight of Afghanistan’s women goes on. There are trappings of new freedoms — foremost among them a constitution that recognizes women’s rights — but in much of the countryside women and girls are still treated like chattel.…
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Reversing an Exodus — A special report.; Former Refugees See Opportunity in Vietnam
[Link to NYTimes.com article] By SETH MYDANS, Published: Monday, December 5, 1994 She couldn’t stop sampling the tropical fruits, the steamed snails, the candied plums. She was enthralled by the children, with their red scarves, trooping along the dirt paths to school. Almost every conversation seemed to end in laughter; she was home, and she…