THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Thunderbird School of Global Management’s Net Impact Club will be hosting a BBQ benefit for the Tia Foundation’s next project launch in Cihuatlan, Jalisco. (LA BRIGADA NO ESTA CANCELADO, SOLAMENTE EL EVENTO EN PHOENIX PARA GANAR DONACIONES!)
Join us for the free event on Saturday, March 3rd from 11:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. next to the Rugby pitch, in front of the old TAC, inside the main entrance to campus on 59th Avenue, just south of Greenway Road.
Still suffering from the devastation of hurricane Jova, and the subsequent flooding and mud slides, the people of the municipality of Cihuatlan, Jalisco are determined to recover and rebuild. This is where Tia’s next project will be held, during the week of March 19th. A UAG PMC Brigade of approximately 40 people will be providing free medical consultations, training for Tia Promotoras, school and community education, and gathering the data for our community studies.
In addition, the local Rotarians, the municipal government of Cihuatlan, the employees and management of the Isla de Navidad Grand Bay Resort, and local residents are all banding together to make this a smooth operation. Helping us prove once again, that together we can do almost anything!
We just received word that Tia’s proposal submission for the Secretary’s 2011 Innovation Award for Women and Girls is still in the review and deliberation process. We are told we should have more information in the next few weeks. The update was provided to us via email by the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues at the U.S. Department of State.
If you missed our original post on the award, go here for details: http://tiafoundation.wordpress.com/?s=innovation+award.
Thank you very much to all our friends for your interest in our work and our progress with the Innovation Award. We all have our fingers and toes crossed!
We had a great meeting with Jorge Garibay, General Manager at the Grand Bay Hotel-Isla Navidad Resort. From left to right, Laura Libman (Tia Foundation) with Dr. Roberto Martinez, Dr. Francisco Enrique Castenada Rico and Dr. Enrique Castenada all from UAG‘s Programa de Medicina en la Communidad, made the trip to Barra de Navidad to make plans for the next project launch nearby. Part of a world class medical program, these doctors will lead a brigade of 30-40 medical students and professors who provide the incredibly comprehensive training the fortunate Tia Promotoras receive.
Lic. Garibay and our friends at the Isla Navidad Resort are providing us with much needed space and volunteers. Jorge Garibay is also helping us coordinate with the local municipality and community organizations. The project will be held the week of March 19th and the graduation on Friday, March 23rd. Some of our donors plan to be guests at this luxury resort while they attend the graduation ceremony and stay for a relaxing short vacation afterward.
Stay tuned! More details to come…
The Community Health Worker is the most cost effective way to save lives, according to the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, comprised of Global Health Organizations like the Gates Foundation and Sve the Children, in a recently published report.
“The world has experienced dramatic declines in deaths thanks largely to the care provided by these local health heroes,” said coalition chair Mary Beth Powers. “But despite this progress, nearly twenty-one thousand children still die every day, most from preventable causes, and a thousand girls and women die each day in pregnancy and childbirth. Investing in the technologies and medicines to prevent and treat diseases is important but insufficient. Simply put, without health workers to deliver the life-saving medicines and information, there is no pathway to good health.”
Read the entire report, “Frontline Health Workers: The Best Way to Save Lives, Accelerate Progress on Global Health, and Help Advance U.S. Interests” at http://frontlinehealthworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FHWC_Issue_Brief_with_Embargo_Stamp-1.pdf.
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