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Second Annual Millennium Promise Partners’ Meeting in New York
The Second Annual Millennium Promise Partners’ Meeting convened in New York on September 21, 2010. There were 250 partner attendees, including The Green Family Foundation. The meeting featured world and business leaders who share an interest in reducing extreme poverty in Africa and other impoverished areas of the world, including Haiti. President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda were among the attendees. The meeting coincided with the UN General Assembly gathering and marked the five-year anniversary of Millennium Promise's founding.
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia Unviersity's Earth Institute and founder of the the Millennium Villages Project, reiterated the commitment to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty by 2015. John McArthur, CEO and Executive Director of Millennium Promise, shared his vision of what the Promise is all about. "The Millennium Promise partnership can evolve into a platform onto which we can achieve international solidarity to meet the challenge of global financial crisis, food shortages, poverty and under-development," he said. "We must all believe that the world is one and that the problems are always lighter when they are shared."
The Millennium Villages Project was launched at scale in 2006 and now reaches nearly half a million people across ten countries. The goal is to show how an integrated approach to community-level development can translate the international MDG agreements into ground-level breakthroughs throughout rural sub-Saharan Africa. The Green Family Foundation has provided a grant to the Millennium Village Project in Haiti in 2008 and continues its efforts to reduce poverty in Haiti's rural and most impoverished areas.
Our Report from the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York
The Green Family Foundation (GFF) team traveled to New York for the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting on September 20-23, 2010. FastForward Haiti founder Laurence Magloire and Director Tatiana Magloire attended the event and illustrated GFF and FastForward's dedication to the repatriation of Haitian culture. The events were held at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, pictured left.
Green Family Foundation President Kimberly Green was selected to appear in this year's CGI Stories. CGI Stories are interviews with CGI commitment-makers filmed on-site at Clinton Global Initiative meetings. The session allowed President Green to share the successes of GFF's commitments to Haiti action items, speak about the success of Sinema Anba Zetwal and the foundation's membership in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).
The Special Session: The Recovery in Haiti forum was moderated by President Bill Clinton, Founding Chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative and U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti. Remarks were made by René Preval, President of Republic of Haiti; Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel. Clinton thanked the CGI members participating in the Haiti Action Network. He also spoke of Haiti's agricultural sector, and the steps being taken to boost production and export of Haitian food products.
Read more: Our Report from the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York
Documentary "Waiting for Superman" About Public Education in the US
September 25, 2010
The state of public education in America is the subject of Waiting for Superman, a new documentary by Davis Guggenheim. The film chronicles the efforts of five families who attempt to enroll their kids into the best school available to them. The movie received the Audience Award for US Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. For each ticket purchased, viewers receive a $15 gift code to give to a classroom on Donorschoose.org. The Green Family Foundation encourages you to see this film.
Kimberly Green and Green Family Foundation's Contribution to "Hands of Haiti" Exhibit
MiamiArtZine.com published an article about the "Hands of Haiti" installation that opened in early September in the recently built South Terminal Gallery of Miami International Airport where millions of travelers who visit Miami will be greeted. The exhibit features commissioned art by artists in distress. All works were created after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The Haitian Art Relief Fund, via the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance and its Director, the artist Edouard Duval Carrié provided funds for the exhibition.
The Green Family Foundation provided archival Haitian music and video for the opening event. Click here to view the article and photos by Harvey J. Burstein.
Partners in Health Breaks Ground for Teaching Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti
September 13, 2010
The town of Mirebalais, 90 minutes north of Port-au-Prince is the site of a 320-room teaching hospital that will be completed in 18 months. Partners in Health, a nongovernmental organization run by Harvard professor Paul Farmer, is overseeing the project that was all ready planned prior to the January 2010 earthquake.
The hospital will be the largest of its kind in Haiti, with six operating rooms, state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment, and an Intensive Care Unit.
Groundbreaking for the Mirebalais Hospital took place on Friday, September 10. FastForward Haiti, a production company with roots in the country and a Green Family Foundation partner, set up the stage, put up the lighting, and handled sound and visuals for the event that took place in Haiti's Central Plateau. Despite the current belief that not enough is being done in Haiti post-earthquake, FastForward Haiti Director Tatiana Magloire says that "Much like the hospital itself, setting up a groundbreaking and important event in a place like that goes toward establishing a standard."
Partner in Health's Paul Farmer and President Bill Clinton are confident the hospital will be built in the 18 months promised. That would make for a great standard.
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