Miami Herald, The (FL)
2005-02-10
Section: Metro & State
Edition: Final
Page: 3B


JACQUELINE CHARLES, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Her first encounter with Haiti's inadequate healthcare came in a remote rural village where even curable maladies like diarrhea, malnutrition and tuberculosis kill.

Miami Beach philanthropist Kimberly Green became inspired as she filmed a group of Haitian-American doctors from Miami treat everything from the common cold to HIV/AIDS in a country where 60 percent of the eight million people do not have drinkable water. ``I fell in love with what they were doing,'' said Green, 33, the president of the Green Family Foundation, who spent three years making a documentary about Haiti's healthcare crisis that will premier tonight during the 22nd Miami International Film Festival.

Read more: Local Film Chronicles Haiti's Healthcare Crisis

Miami Herald, The (FL)
2004-12-30
Section: Neighbors NE
Edition: Final
Page: 11N

Buena Vista East resident Lisa Silvera, left, Tanisha Rizer, Green Family Foundation community liaison, center; and Kimberly Green, president of the Green Family Foundation helped collect more than 100 new toys during the Buena Vista East Historic Neighborhood Association's holi- day craft and yard sale on Dec. 18. The toys were collected for the Green Family Foundation's Holiday Toy Drive, and other neighborhood charitable efforts and groups.

Miami Herald, The (FL)
2004-11-27
Section: Tropical Life
Edition: Final
Page: 1E

As a commander in the U.S. Coast Guard, Melissa Bert has been stationed ``everywhere - all over the place.'' But since being posted here two years ago, she's made Miami a home for herself and a better home for others.

``It's important wherever I go to be part of the community,'' says Bert, one of 10 public servants who earlier this month received the annual United Way Green Family Foundation American Values Award. The Seventh Coast Guard District's lead attorney and a military judge, Bert serves as legal advisor to more than 100 Coast Guard units in the southeastern United States and Caribbean. ``It's a 24/7 thing,'' says Bert, who nevertheless finds free time and spends it as a volunteer with Guardian ad Litem, the state's advocacy program for children in need.

Read more: On Call 24/7, She Still Finds Time for Others

Miami Herald, The (FL)
2004-11-24
Section: Front
Edition: Final
Page: 10A

Nearly five million people worldwide were infected with HIV during 2004, bringing the number living with the virus that causes AIDS to nearly 40 million, the highest number since the syndrome was identified in 1981.

The steepest increases were in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. New cases leveled off in the Caribbean, but it remained the second-most-affected region in the world, with 2.3 percent of its population infected with HIV/AIDS. ``The number of people living with HIV has been rising in every region,'' said the AIDS Epidemic Update released Tuesday by the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization.

Read more: Latin America's HIV Rise Among Highest