Mothers Who Will Change the World
By Matt Damon for the Huffington Post
Mother's Day is a day to celebrate our mothers. It's for brunches, flowers, and time spent with your beloved mom. But for millions of mothers around the world, it's a day they'll lose to one of the world's most preventable causes of death -- waterborne disease.
Mother's Day is another day where in many countries women will be responsible for finding and fetching water for their families. All the water they need for drinking, washing, cooking, cleaning. They'll walk miles, carry heavy burdens, wait for hours and pay exorbitant prices. The work will be back-breaking and all-consuming. Often the water will be contaminated, even deadly. In these instances, they'll face an impossible choice -- certain death without water or possible death from illness.
Breakthroughs in Health in the Millennium Villages
Co-authored with Sonia Sachs and Prabhjot Singh
In Africa's Millennium Villages (MVs), local communities are taking many actions in health care, agriculture, education, and other challenges to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Their hard work is paying off. In just three years, the mortality rate among children under five dropped by 22 percent. This pace is three times faster than national trends in the rural areas, and is fast enough to achieve the Millennium Development Goal for child mortality (MDG 4). These results, detailed in a Lancet study published today, reinforce the global effort to build effective, low-cost, community-led health care systems that can end millions of deaths of young children and pregnant women each year.
MAY 2012
AYIKODANS “The Heartbeat of Haiti”
May 25 & 26, 2012
Learn more about "Haiti's Premiere Dance Company"
Buy tickets to live performances of AYIKODANS at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Florida.
GFF in partnership with FIU’s Women’s Studies Sponsors "Women in Production"
"Women in Production" 2012, the Miami Beach Convention Center: Saturday, May 5, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sunday, May 6, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. View photos.
Supports AI Justice going national event in NYC
Partners with Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance and FIU to support Symposium on education at the LHCC
Sponsors Sant La annual fundraiser
Save the Date
Sant La's Annual Fundraiser
and Cocktail Reception
May 24th, 2012
at Moca Cafe
APRIL 2012
GFF supports Marian Center Auxiliary Luncheon and Fashion show
Philanthropy Miami (Leave a Legacy) panel (KG panelist)
Moderator: Matt Haggman, Knight Foundation
Panelists: Joseph Falk, Public Policy Advisor, Akerman Senterfitt
George Lindemann, Chair board of trustees, bass museum
Kimberly Green, PhD, President, The Green Family Foundation
A panel of South Florida philanthropists to share their likes and dislikes about being asked and engaged and sharing best practices from their own perspective about the people and causes that ask them for money
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