Ghana Health and Education Initiative

APPLY FOR A SUMMER SERVE & LEARN POSITION WITH THE GHANA HEALTH AND EDUCATION INITIATIVE (GHEI)! 

GHEI is offering five positions in the following three Summer Serve & Learn project sessions:
Session I: Girls' Empowerment, July 1 - July 18
Session II: Prevention of Childhood Diseases through Handwashing, July 19 - August 5
Session III: Treatment and Prevention of Child Worms, August 6 - August 23

To learn more about each project and our organization, please visit our website, http://www.ghei.org

Applications can be downloaded from our website ( http://www.ghei.org), under the "Short-term Opportunity" link on the "Volunteer" page.  Please send all applications to:  volunteer@ghei.org under the subject line:

"SSL09 APP, (your name)"

***The application process is on a rolling basis, so please apply early as spots fill quickly!!!*** 

Thank you for your interest in GHEI
Please direct all questions to Brittany at volunteer@ghei.org

Screening of Road to Ingwavuma with Filmmaker!

The 2nd Annual Forum on Global Health and Human Rights** presents:

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Barbara Rick, and executive director of Artists for a New South Africa, Sharon Gelman, host a viewing of their documentary, "Road to Ingwavuma, "  a chronicle of  the mission of artists such as Samuel L. Jackson and Carlos Santana as they travel to see the extreme poverty and progress in South Africa in  the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Where:  Hammer 301
When:  Wednesday, March 18th at 7 PM

Food will be provided!

Click HERE for more information on Road to Ingwavuma


**The Forum on Global Health & Human Rights is organized by the International Health Organization and Physicians for Human Rights, with the support of the Clincal Practice Program, AMSA, Lamda Alliance, and the Family Medicine Interest Group. 

Funding for International Health Projects

Come join us for our first event in our module on Funding for International Health Projects:

A Discussion with Karen Schmidt, Deputy Director of the Access Project and Millennium Village Rwanda.

Wednesday, March 11

1pm-1:45pm

Hammer Health Sciences Building, Room 305

Lunch will be provided!

Click here for more information on the Access Project

Call & Response Screening, with Matisyahu

FREE Call+Response Screening and Live Concert with Matisyahu

A Rockumentary About the World's 27 Million Dirtiest Secrets

Thursday, February 26 @ 7:00 pm

Miller Theater - Columbia University (doors open at 6:30pm)

• Matisyahu (Award Winning Recording Artist)
• Justin Dillon

Join us as we continue the conversation on morality, by looking at the modern human trafficking industry.  We'll explore the value and the nature of human beings through music, photography and film.

CALL+RESPONSE (www.callandresponse.com) is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals that there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.  This is a particularly important conversation for Columbia since thousands of slaves are trafficked through New York. Justin Dillon, creator and director of the film, will be there to talk about the modern day slave trade. The photography project Sex and Money: a Global Search for Human Worth, will also be featured.

Award winning recording artist Matisyahu will kick-off and close the evening with a live concert.

Free tickets will be available at the Lerner Hall Box Office (non-CU ID tickets are limited)

http://veritas.org/columbia/schedule

Humanitarian Crises of 2008

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has just released a list of the 

Top Ten Humanitarian Crises of 2008

Please take a few minutes to click on the link and learn about the biggest crises going on in the world today.

Maternal Mortality Film Screening

Please join us for the first event in our next module, dealing with maternal mortality!

Maternal Mortality Module: Film Screening

Wednesday, February 18th

6:30 - 8 PM

Hammer Rm. 303

Dinner will be served

Join us over dinner to watch a BBC documentary, "Dead Mums Don't Cry," on maternal mortality in Chad, followed by a short discussion and activity.

"Becoming a mother in Africa can be among the most frightening and dangerous jobs in the world. This program investigates why more than half a million women die every year in pregnancy and childbirth.

DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY documents one woman's remarkable struggle to stop mothers in her country from dying. She's Grace Kodindo - an obstetrician in the poverty-stricken central African country of Chad. Women in Chad have a 1 in 11 chance of dying during pregnancy or in childbirth. The risk for women in the UK is 1 in 5100.

Cutting maternal mortality by 75% by 2015 was one of the eight Millennium Development Goals set by 189 countries in 2000. Five years on, progress is far behind schedule - and this film reveals it's slowest on the goals that affect women and children.

But DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY shows there is reason for hope. A few poor countries have succeeded in saving mothers' lives. BBC reporter Steve Bradshaw and Grace Kodindo travel to Honduras, which has cut maternal mortality far faster than some wealthier neighbors. A key reason is that influential men and women cared enough to make the issue a priority."

Please RSVP to fwc2109@columbia.edu

Human Trafficking Events

Physicians for Human Rights presents two events on Human Trafficking:

1.  Film Screening: 

Carissa (20 min) 

Tuesday, February 17th, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. 

Hammer Rm. 310 

Dinner will be served 

 

Carissa is a short documentary about a young girl who was a victim of sex trafficking in Fresno, California. She was able to turn her life around and is now a national spokesperson on the issue of youth homelessness and sex trafficking. Come hear her story. Director David Sauvage. http://carissaproject.com

Free dinner and screening, followed by a short discussion activity. 

 

2. Speaker: 

Florrie Burke*, M.Ed., MA, LMFT 

Wednesday, February 18th, Noon – 1 p.m. 

Hammer Rm. 324 

Lunch will be served 

 

Florrie Burke will be discussing trafficking and modern day slavery, using a human rights approach, and illustrating with cases from NY. She will also address the importance of medical professionals as intermediaries and as responders to trafficked victims' health needs.

**Please RSVP for each event to fwc2109@columbia.edu so there is enough food for everyone.**

*Bio: Florrie Burke, M.Ed., MA, LMFT, is a consultant on Modern Day Slavery to both governmental and non governmental agencies. She was most recently the Senior Director of International Programs at Safe Horizon in New York City where she oversaw both the Anti-Trafficking Program and Solace Program for Survivors of Torture and Refugee Trauma.  She is a founding member and currently the Coordinator of the Freedom Network Training Institute and trains social service providers, law enforcement and government entities across the country.  She has done extensive training and consultation on Human Trafficking issues, trauma and torture both nationally and internationally.  Ms. Burke is a current Co-Chair of the Freedom Network USA, a nationwide group of social and legal service providers working with survivors of human trafficking.  Ms. Burke has served as an Expert Witness on several high profile cases of Human Trafficking.  She is a member of the Expert Initiative on Human Trafficking at the UNODC in Vienna and is part of three working groups developing materials for first responders and others who may encounter Human Trafficking.  Ms. Burke has been working with trafficked persons since 1997 when she designed and implemented specialized social services to sixty deaf Mexicans who were held in slavery in a peddling ring in NYC.  Ms. Burke also designed and implemented a model for Community Trauma Response following the attacks on September 11th.  In 2007 Ms. Burke received the National Crime Victims Recognition Service Award from the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime and was honored by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor and was awarded the Annual Paul and Sheila Wellstone Award by the Freedom Network USA