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Australian Women’s Products Company Audrey Reefs Begins Partnership with World Vision to Empower Girls

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. /ScoopCloud/ -- On March 26, 2019, Australian company Audrey Reefs Pty Ltd joined forces with World Vision USA and pledged to donate excess inventory of feminine sanitary pads to be distributed amongst girls in poverty-stricken areas. This marked the beginning of a strong partnership as Audrey Reefs proudly supports World Vision in its quest to improve the lives of millions of children around the world.

Audrey Reefs was founded on the basis of corporate responsibility, and one of its core missions is to provide products that are sustainably made and improve the lives of people. Through Audrey Sun, its brand of feminine products, Audrey Reefs seeks to provide the best possible product to give girls comfort and dignity during their natural cycle, and allow them to live their lives freely.

As part of this vision, Audrey Reefs is committed to its new partnership with World Vision USA to donate feminine sanitary products to be used as part of its Clean Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program. Too many girls are forced to stay home from school while on their period due to lack of access to feminine hygiene products, facilities at school, and social stigmas surrounding their menstrual cycle. This leads to poorer educational outcomes for girls, even dropping out of school completely, and missed employment opportunities in the future.

Audrey Reefs believes the fact that this happens simply due to a natural bodily function over which women have no control is appalling, and is determined to work with World Vision to help solve this issue and give these girls back the dignity and freedom that they deserve.

"At Audrey Reefs, we care about the children who are the future of our world. We wanted to make an impact in not only communities, but on individual lives as well, so we strongly believe that donating our sanitary pads is an excellent way to improve the lives of girls and their families who otherwise would not have access to these basic but necessary items," said Audrey Reefs' manager Regan Thomson.

Donations will begin in the 2nd quarter of 2019, and plans are in place for bigger and more frequent donations in the future.

About Audrey Reefs:

Audrey Reefs Pty Ltd is an Australian company with offices in Sydney, Seoul, New Jersey and Tokyo, founded with the goal of promoting natural products. It focuses on the sustainable and peaceful use of the bounty of the natural environment. While still only a young company, Audrey Reefs has seen strong growth even from its beginning stages, and has plans to grow much further by seeking new consumer markets to share its quality products.

The product development team at Audrey Reefs strives to source the best and most eco-friendly plant-based and laboratory-made ingredients, and utilizes only those ingredients that pass their stringent requirements for safety and efficacy. Audrey Reefs' women's lifestyle brand, Audrey Sun, was created and developed by studying the application of everyday beauty and personal hygiene measures. Audrey Sun's curved sanitary pads were thoughtfully designed with women's needs in mind, and are constructed for a comfortable and secure fit.

The pad's outer layer is made with only 100 percent natural cotton and organic cotton, meaning that the part that touches the user's body is as natural as can be. As part of the company's commitment to providing products that are not harmful to humans, animals or nature, they tested their pads for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and phthalates, as well as doing stringent dermatological tests, all of which were passed with flying colors. Audrey Sun also produces premium cotton puffs for makeup removal, and a specially formulated feminine wash to help women feel fresh every day. Products are available online on Amazon.

More information: https://www.audreyreefs.com.au/

About World Vision:

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. From humble beginnings in the 1950's, today World Vision lends a helping hand to over 4 million children in nearly 100 countries, regardless of their faith.

From disaster relief efforts to education and community building, World Vision works tirelessly to provide assistance to those who desperately need it. With an open-book policy, World Vision's financial management means that 86 percent of raised funds goes towards their charitable programs, and through clever use of those funds, each single dollar donated increases to $1.30 worth of impact. Donations can be made here - https://www.worldvision.org/donate.

More information: https://www.worldvision.org/ and https://www.instagram.com/worldvisionusa/

On March 26, 2019, Australian company Audrey Reefs Pty Ltd joined forces with World Vision USA and pledged to donate excess inventory of feminine sanitary pads to be distributed amongst girls in poverty-stricken areas. This marked the beginning of a strong partnership as Audrey Reefs proudly supports World Vision in its quest to improve the lives of millions of children around the world.

Related link: https://www.audreyreefs.com.au/

Orlando Moving Company Rescues 68,000 LBS. of Food and Drinks from Ironman Triathlon

ORLANDO, Fla. /ScoopCloud/ -- Move For Hunger announced today that Ace Relocation Systems of Orlando rescued 68,000 pounds of leftover food and beverages from the IRONMAN Florida triathlon on November 4. The race, which was originally supposed to be held in Panama City Beach, was relocated to Haines City due to the impact of Hurricane Michael.

Ace Relocation Systems volunteered to pick up all of the energy bars, bottled water, and sports drinks that the athletes did not use. A total of 35,500 pounds of bottled water was recovered and delivered to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida in Orlando. All of the leftover sports drinks and energy bars -- 32,500 pounds worth -- were delivered to the United Way of Northwest Florida in Panama City to assist people who were affected by the hurricane.

Ace Relocation Systems is one of more than 900 professional moving companies that participate in the Move For Hunger program.

Members of the Move For Hunger network provide their customers with the opportunity to donate unopened, non-perishable food during the moving process and delivers the donations to their local food bank, free of charge. Move For Hunger also helps the network organize food drives and coordinate large food rescues across the United States and Canada.

"We love doing the heavy lifting," said Craig Morreale, Director of Marketing for Ace Relocation Systems. "We wouldn't have anything to lift, haul and deliver, however, if it weren't for Move For Hunger's amazing coordination and dedication to getting food into the hands of those who need it."

About Move For Hunger:

Move For Hunger is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that mobilizes the relocation industry to fight hunger and reduce food waste. In addition to collecting food from people who are moving to new homes, Move For Hunger helps companies and individuals across the United States and Canada organize successful food drives. To date, they have collected more than 11.7 million pounds of food. For more information, or to find out how you can host your own food drive, visit https://www.moveforhunger.org/.

Move For Hunger announced today that Ace Relocation Systems of Orlando rescued 68,000 pounds of leftover food and beverages from the IRONMAN Florida triathlon on November 4. The race, which was originally supposed to be held in Panama City Beach, was relocated to Haines City due to the impact of Hurricane Michael.

Related link: https://moveforhunger.org/

Champions for Humanity Distributes Ionic Silver to Help Save Millions from Infectious Disease

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. /ScoopCloud/ -- Jay Newman, founder and executive director of Champions for Humanity, founded this tax exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization to bring a leading-edge embodiment of ionic silver - Opti-Silver - to millions of people who need safe drinking water and are suffering needlessly from infectious disease. He simply wants to do some good in the world.

Since Roman days, ionic silver has been used to kill bacterial and viral pathogens. It's used in doorknobs, medical equipment, topical medical treatments and food-handling equipment. It's also been used for decades to treat infectious conditions such as colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, hepatitis, urinary tract infection, food poisoning and more.

In 2013, Nature, a multidisciplinary scientific journal, published a report: "Silver makes antibiotics thousands of times more effective" that discussed the profound benefits of ionic silver. For example, in mice, when compared head-to-head against antibiotics to fight supergerms, ionic silver was five times more effective.

Newman says that this ionic silver will be distributed to people in low-income and hurricane-affected regions to disinfect drinking water and help to fight infectious disease.

"I'm determined to bring this technology to millions of people who are suffering and dying needlessly from infectious disease without doing business with potential large investors who are only in it for the money," he says.

Newman explains that one venture capitalist predicted a potential half-a-billion-dollar company within five years, but Newman said he was not interested in that. He only wanted investors who put the people, not the money, first.

Opti-Silver technology is designed to optimize the availability of ionic silver for humans. Medical professionals applaud its use.

"This technology is to the medical field what the printing press and microchip did in their field," Bill Deagle, M.D., of the NutriMedical Report, says.

Another physician, Timothy Kingsbury, O.D., reported that he had seen many patients over a four-month period who did not respond to conventional treatment for infectious disease; the success rate with Opti-Silver was staggering - well over 80 percent.

"I don't know of anything that has a better risk/benefit ratio and effectiveness," Kingsbury says.

About Champions for Humanity:

Champions for Humanity, Inc. is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization based in Florida, USA. Our near-term focus is on healthy children and adults in various regions of the world by distributing antimicrobial ionic silver for human use and for water disinfection. Our larger mission is to make a substantial difference in furthering the healthy evolution of society and the planet through education in meditation, education in holistic health and healing, fostering increased empathy and community in society, and helping to encourage increased philanthropy and charitable work worldwide.

At one time, Jay Newman had the same attorney and accountant as Steven Jobs of Apple. He left high-tech to pursue his passion in natural health and healing. He's been interviewed on "Good Morning America" and "NBC TV News" as a leading expert in the field of ionic silver. He's on the Board of Advisors of the National Health Federation, the oldest health-freedom advocacy NGO in the world. He's also CEO of Invision International Health Solutions.

For more information: http://championsforhumanity.org/.

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Jay Newman, founder and executive director of Champions for Humanity, founded this 501(c)(3) charitable organization to bring a leading-edge embodiment of ionic silver - Opti-Silver - to millions of people who need safe drinking water and are suffering needlessly from infectious disease. He simply wants to do some good in the world.

Related link: http://championsforhumanity.org/

ScriptDrop and Albertsons Hurricane Relief Efforts To Be Covered on ‘The Success Files’ with Rob Lowe

NASHVILLE, Tenn. /ScoopCloud/ -- ScriptDrop, a healthcare technology company providing medication reminders and deliveries while fighting prescription abandonment and abuse, today announced that it will be featured on "The Success Files" hosted by Rob Lowe, airing on MSNBC and PBS in 2018.

The segment will show how ScriptDrop teamed up with Albertsons Companies to provide relief to Hurricane Harvey victims prevented from picking up their prescriptions in the aftermath of the storm. "We're delighted that 'The Success Files' decided to tell the story of how technology helped to alleviate at least some of the pressure on families in need," said ScriptDrop CEO Nicholas Potts.

"After Hurricane Harvey, we had patients who were struggling to meet their basic needs, so partnering with ScriptDrop to deliver their prescriptions to their homes was an easy decision and allowed our patients to stay healthy and focus on recovery efforts," says Mark Panzer, Albertsons Companies Senior Vice President of Pharmacy Health and Wellness.

"Our data showed that people were either unable to reach the pharmacy or dealing with other priorities," added ScriptDrop's Potts. "By offering our expertise in prescription delivery with Albertsons Companies, we could help people by bringing prescriptions to them and assisting with copays." Albertsons stepped in to cover the cost of the deliveries and the copays were paid for by funds raised.

"The Success Files" is an award-winning program that highlights new stories and innovative concepts through groundbreaking short-form and long-form documentary presentation. The hurricane provided an opportunity for ScriptDrop to test its systems in a high pressure environment. ScriptDrop connects patients, pharmacies and physicians to ensure that patients properly adhere to medication protocols prescribed by their physicians, and that healthcare providers and pharmacies are informed if there are problems.

The complex system or reporting and notifications is implemented through the use of cutting edge blockchain technology, ensuring both the security and accuracy of the process.

The Success Files will tape the segment in Houston on November 14, and it will run on MSNBC and PBS stations throughout 2018.

About ScriptDrop:

ScriptDrop offers a prescription delivery service that makes the delivery process easier for both pharmacists and patients. Once a prescription is ready, ScriptDrop sends a courier to pick up the delivery and tracks the delivery until the patient signs for it. The pharmacist can then view the signed delivery receipt in their ScriptDrop account. ScriptDrop is designed to fit into the pharmacist's workflow, enabling patients to have easy access to medicines and pharmacists to streamline processes as well as access reporting and analytical insight.

Learn more at: http://www.scriptdrop.co/.

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ScriptDrop, a healthcare technology company providing medication reminders and deliveries while fighting prescription abandonment and abuse, today announced that it will be featured on "The Success Files" hosted by Rob Lowe, airing on MSNBC and PBS in 2018.

Related link: http://www.scriptdrop.co/

ServeNow Helps with Flood Relief in Asia with Medical Volunteer Teams and Blanket Distribution

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. /ScoopCloud/ -- At the same time as Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc in Texas, with Hurricane Irma following in Florida, unprecedented flooding was occurring in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, the nonprofit ServeNow announced today. This has largely been overshadowed by these other events and has received little press coverage.

"Over 1,400 people died and two million have lost their homes. There is now a great need for medical clinics and winter coverings in the flood affected areas," says Ben Foley, of ServeNow. "This winter is projected to be one of the worst in decades, and so with a couple million without homes, warm winter coverings will be needed more than ever."

Conducting medical clinics and distributing winter coverings have been two specific services ServeNow has been providing for the past several years in these exact parts of the world. Staff on the ground has already begun responding but ServeNow needs to ramp up efforts to meet the requests coming in.

Every $350 enables ServeNow to treat a couple hundred people via medical clinics. ServeNow has a network of doctors willing to volunteer their time in addition to staff. Many of those affected by the floods cannot afford to see a doctor or even have access to basic medicines. They are also unprotected from colder weather approaching.

Every $15 also provides a heavy and warm blanket or other necessary winter coverings for the most vulnerable, particularly children and the elderly. These items can literally be life-saving for a harsh winter ahead.

To read more information, please check out the story part of ServeNow's website (www.weservenow.org) and particularly this article: https://weservenow.org/asia-flood-update/.

You can also donate here: https://weservenow.org/donate/disaster-relief/ or mail a check, marked with "Disaster Relief" in the memo to:
5225 North Academy Blvd.,
Suite 206
Colorado Springs, CO 80918

You can also call 719-900-1800 to donate. To contact via e-mail: office@weservenow.org.

About ServeNow:
ServeNow is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible. The mission of ServeNow is "Serving people in need by caring for orphans, widows, underprivileged children and youth as well as equipping the church for greater fulfillment of its ministry, and providing humanitarian assistance where needed." Learn more at: https://weservenow.org/.

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At the same time as Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc in Texas, with Hurricane Irma following in Florida, unprecedented flooding was occurring in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, the nonprofit ServeNow announced today. This has largely been overshadowed by these other events and has received little press coverage.

Related link: https://weservenow.org/

Capital Automotive Group, Carolinas Collision Centers, and Carolina Hurricanes to Host Hurricane Harvey Relief Drive

RALEIGH, N.C. /ScoopCloud/ -- Capital Automotive Group teamed up with the Carolina Hurricanes along with Carolinas Collision Centers to host a Hurricane Harvey Relief drive at the PNC Arena beginning today. In addition, Capital Automotive will receive donations to aid in the relief effort.

After the drive, employees from Capital Ford in Raleigh will pick up items from PNC Arena and deliver the items to organizations that are assisting those affected by the storm in Texas.

Tim Michael, President of Capital Automotive group said, "It's hard to fathom what our friends in Texas are going through with the effects of this disaster. In some small way, I hope we can give some relief through the donations that are received through this drive."

Donations will be accepted until September 8, 2017 at any Capital Automotive Group location in the Triangle and PNC Arena.

Donors are encouraged to help with the relief efforts by donating:
* Gift cards to national big box stores (Walmart, Target, etc.)
* Cases of bottled water and sports drinks
* Baby items, including diapers, wipes, etc.
* Non-perishable dry goods and canned goods
* Bleach, Lysol, Clorox wipes, etc.
* Soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, floss, feminine products, deodorant
* Paper towels, tissues, toilet paper, etc.
* Pet supplies, including dog and cat food
* New pillows, sheets and towels
* Plastic storage bins.

No used clothing will be accepted.

Capital Automotive Group provides consistent, caring customer experiences and is proud to be part of this worthy cause. For more information on Capital Automotive, please visit them at https://capitalautogroup.com/.

Capital Automotive Group teamed up with the Carolina Hurricanes along with Carolinas Collision Centers to host a Hurricane Harvey Relief drive at the PNC Arena beginning today. In addition, Capital Automotive will receive donations to aid in the relief effort.

Related link: https://capitalautogroup.com/

Attorney Brian O. Sutter Supported New Water System for Needy in Nicaragua

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. /ScoopCloud/ -- Personal Injury Attorney Brian O. Sutter of All Injuries Law Firm has supported the construction of a new water system for the village of Guingajapa in San Nicolas, Nicaragua.

Personal Injury Attorney and civil trial lawyer Brian O. Sutter of the Port Charlotte Florida based All Injuries Law Firm has supported the development and installation of a new municipal water system for the small village of Guingajapa located in San Nicolas, Nicaragua.

The project entitled Guingajapa water system, was organized and operated by Food For The Poor, one of the largest international relief and development organizations in USA, who specialize in benefiting the needy throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. Entirely supported by donors, the water system project addressed the dire need for residents of Guingajapa to have clean, safe drinking water.

Attorney Brian O. Sutter of All Injuries Law Firm had this comment about the completion of the project: "We are proud to have supported this important program. In the USA we are so fortunate to have clean potable water available nearly everywhere, as such it's easy for us to not fully understand the cost of not having clean water readily available in people's homes. Besides the obvious issues of having water that is safe to drink, many do not realize the large amount of time and resources every day it takes for those who live without close access to clean water.

"In many cases family members will have to spend several hours a day simply collecting and hauling water to their homes from sometimes miles away. This time is valuable and has a cost. Time spent hauling water is time that could be spent in schools, at work or caring for family members. Food For The Poor is a great organization that works to improve the lives of the needy in Central American and the Caribbean. To see the completed project delivering clean water directly to people's homes was very heartening."

About Attorney Brian O. Sutter:

Attorney Brian Sutter practices personal injury, wrongful death, automobile accidents, workers' compensation and Social Security Disability law from his office in Port Charlotte, Florida.

He is a member of the Charlotte County Bar Association, the Lee County Bar Association, the Litigation Section of the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, the Florida Justice Association, the American Justice Association and the Workplace Injury Litigation Group. As a board member of the Florida Workers' Advocates, he has actively lobbied on behalf of injured workers for several years and has served as its president. He has been Board Certified in Florida Workers' Compensation since 1990 and re-certified in 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Workers' Compensation section of the Florida Bar Association. He enjoys an AV(R) rating, the highest possible from Martindale-Hubbell(R).

Learn more: http://www.allinjurieslawfirm.com/.

All Injuries Law Firm, 2340 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte, FL 33952.

Personal Injury Attorney Brian O. Sutter of All Injuries Law Firm has supported the construction of a new water system for the village of Guingajapa in San Nicolas, Nicaragua. The project entitled Guingajapa water system, was organized and operated by Food For The Poor, one of the largest international relief and development organizations in USA.

Golden Opportunity Has Special Meaning in New York

NEW YORK, N.Y., March 28, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The American Friends of Neve Hanna today announced that "golden opportunity" took on a special meaning when award-winning chef and co-owner of Philadelphia's Zahav (Gold) restaurant, Michael Solomonov, met the girls and boys of the Neve Hanna Children's Home in Kiryat Gat, Israel.

On a special night in New York, American Friends of Neve Hanna led by Co-Presidents Janet and Irwin Tobin, came together with Chef Solomonov to celebrate 40 years of service to children and the publication of Solomonov's new cookbook, "Zahav" (ISBN: 978-0544373280).

Chef Solomonov shared both a signature recipe and the personal culinary journey that led him back to Israel and his meeting with the children at Neve Hanna. Neve Hanna provides youngsters from dysfunctional families with a loving and healthy home - and a future they would not otherwise have.

Solomonov and his family visited the Neve Hanna campus last June and were particularly impressed by the inspiring, resilient young people who overcome serious challenges to succeed and thrive.

Neve Hanna is a unique therapeutic community, supported by the Masorti (Conservative) religious movement, which offers art, drama and animal assisted therapy, remedial academic teaching, University tuition assistance, educational trips and an on-site bakery which teaches vocational and business skills.

The bakery has become so successful that it now provides baked goods to restaurants and corporate dining facilities throughout Israel. Chef Solomonov could relate to the children of Neve Hanna; indeed, it was his time spent working in a bakery in Israel as a teen that proved to be the first step towards finding his calling in food and pursuing a career built around furthering the State of Israel through this lens.

Situated in the southern part of Israel, Neve Hanna not only serves its resident young people (who are referred by the Israeli courts) but also provides daily programming and services to neighboring youngsters from the Bedouin town of Rahat.

Michael Solomonov is now embarking on a new venture - the eagerly anticipated Dizengoff NYC, an Israeli style hummusiya and his first restaurant in New York (Dizengoff Philly opened in Summer of 2014), opening this April in Chelsea Market.

For information about Neve Hanna or to purchase a copy of Zahav, please call or email The American Friends of Neve Hanna at (212) 533-2061 or afnevehanna@gmail.com. Please visit our website at http://www.afnevehanna.org/.

Photo Caption: Michael Solomonov and his family visit the petting zoo at Neve Hanna.

Photo credit: YGSerkin and AFNeveHanna.

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Students Partner with NGOs to build Successful Social Enterprises in Developing World

LONDON, U.K., Nov. 17, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- A cooperative effort between NGOs and students from Cambridge and elsewhere is revolutionizing how Fair Trade social enterprises in the Global South can succeed by efficiently reaching foreign markets. According to Directors Savithri Machiraju and Amy Chang, the Agenda for Sustainable Development, in cooperation with Friends Beyond Borders and the Adelina Foundation, partners with students and local companies in poorer nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to modernize their businesses with social media and other tools so that knowledge of their products can reach foreign consumers, and the products themselves can be purchased and shipped in a timely manner.

"Before now, the idea that these small firms could compete with established companies in the industrialized world was ludicrous," said Chang. "They simply did not have the resources to provide reliable pay platforms, dependable rapid shipping, and quality control." But the formulae ASD has devised combine the power of modern online retail platforms like Amazon and Alibaba with social media and modern marketing to allow these companies to compete on the global stage.

Partner Friends Beyond Borders even guarantees satisfaction with each purchase from qualified vendors, to eliminate any anxiety that the customer will lose money. "The idea is that consumers in the West can feel as secure purchasing things from these family-owned enterprises in the third world as they would if they bought them from Amazon, Aliexpress, or eBay," Machiraju says.

The formulae Cambridge students employ are designed so that one student can efficiently modernize a given social enterprise in about three hours. "Students are quite facile with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Amazon, Alibaba, and Pinterest. Using our formula, they quickly build a web and social media presence for each company that allows it to dramatically increase its presence in the online retail world," Chang says.

Why three hours? "Just as we want to help build a successful future for each enterprise, we want students to feel empowered," says CTO Director Nigel Applewhite. "Since students are incredibly busy, we want them to know that in a few short hours, employing skills they use every day in the classroom, they can make a major impact on a small family business in a historically impoverished place that will last a long time, and can serve as a template for other companies in the same country. So we designed a formula that is like a recipe or a protocol that combines best practices in a step-by-step fashion. Create a social media page, embed a PayPal button, issue a press release, etc."

As long as a student is working on a particular project, he or she is the chairperson for that country. When the project is finished, the student hands off the title to a fellow student, or, if he or she is extraordinarily ambitious, begins a similar project in the same country. That way the largest possible number of small enterprises in each country are transformed.

Enterprises selected for the program must make products or provide services which align with the UN's recently announced 2030 Sustainability Goals. Goods produced cannot contain toxic substances, pollute the environment, contribute to Global Warming, derive from illegitimate sources, or be made with child or slave labor.

For more information contact friendsbeyondborders@gmail.com or agenda4sustainabledevelopment@gmail.com

Website: http://agendaforsustainabledevelopment.net/.

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Online Service Provides Free Counseling for Europe’s Refugees

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 25, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- An Internet group therapy service has initiated a program to provide psychological support for the thousands of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa who are currently trekking across Europe seeking new homes. In cooperation with the Adelina Foundation and Friends Beyond Borders, Growthnet, a U.S. company that offers various kinds of group counseling via web conferencing, is offering no-cost online sessions to any refugee who applies, according to its CEO, John Toomey.

"These people are entering Europe with all kinds of needs," Toomey says. "The governments in Europe are overcome with just handling practical things like food and shelter, so psychological and emotional traumas associated with the journey often go untreated. Some of these people have crossed the Mediterranean in leaky boats, been beaten by traffickers, and lost loved ones along the way. As long as we are able, we will help them adjust."

Key to the program's success is translation software newly developed by http://translateyourworld.com/.

The refugees typically speak languages like Arabic, Kurdish, Berber, and Hausa, and cannot understand therapists who speak only European languages. The new software allows the counselor to speak German, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, or Russian, but the client can read the therapist's words in real time on their Smart phone or computer screen in Arabic, Turkish, Azeri, Swahili, or several other languages.

"Most people from the Middle East come from countries where psychotherapy is not common," says Soani Gunawan, language director for the project. "So being able to communicate with them in their own tongue can be critical not only to make them comfortable, but to allow them to see why counseling can be immensely beneficial to them during the kinds of ordeals they are facing."

An additional benefit to using the immediate translation software is that clients become more at ease with the native language of the country they are entering. A typical interaction, for example, is a German speaking therapist counseling an Arabic-speaking client. Since Germany is interested in assimilating refugees who qualify to remain as permanent residents, such an interaction is useful in helping the migrant learn a new tongue, since they are hearing the host language (German) at the same time as they read the target language (Arabic).

Plans are in the works to extend the program to other refugee crises, such as those facing the Rohingya in Southeast Asia, and Hutu and Tutsi peoples in Rwanda and Congo.

For more information contact friendsbeyondborders@gmail.com, or go to http://Therapion.com/ or http://translateyourworld.com/.

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Foundation Helps Nepali School and Community Bounce Back

KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 10, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The Adelina Foundation of Torrance, California is assisting the World Mind Network in helping the TriKA school in Narayanpur, Nepal bounce back from the massive April and May earthquakes that devastated so much of the country.

According to Director John Toomey, the group will be visiting the school in late July to deliver needed water purification equipment, provide training on a new educational computer, introduce 3D printing to the students as a way to interest them in technology and art, and gather data to support similar future projects in the Philippines, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Although this region of Southwestern Nepal was not one of the most severely damaged areas, children in the area still live in fear of future quakes. The school was used as a shelter after the quakes for village residents whose homes were felt to be unsafe.

3D printing, which is almost unknown in Nepal, is seen by some as a way to help remote rural communities begin to build sustainable village enterprises.

The group also will be working with high school students in launching a social media campaign to publicize the dangers of anti-biotic overuse. In Nepal antibiotics are sold over the counter without prescriptions, and many disease pathogens have developed mutations which are resistant to common medicines. Students will develop informational media in local languages to inform the public.

In addition, the Foundation will help to create an online discussion group which will review the recently issued draft of the new Nepali Constitution. Nepal has been without a working constitution for years, and students and group members hope to initiate a national conversation about the new document's merits.

For more information, including opportunities for public participation, contact worldmindnetwork@gmail.com.

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Mukuria Wins Adelina Award

NAIROBI, KENYA, Dec. 6, 2013 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Megan White Mukuria, founder of ZanaAfrica, is the latest recipient of the Adelina Award, a prize awarded for exemplary accomplishment in the areas of humanitarian assistance, environmental improvement, education reform, sustainability, and disaster relief, according to John Toomey, Eula Laki and Lydia Ramos of Friends Beyond Borders and the World Mind Network, co-chairs of the Awards Committee.

Mukuria's organization provides a holistic and sustainable solution to keeping Kenyan girls in school by providing them with locally made sanitary pads.

In Kenya, one million girls miss up to 1.5 months of school because of their period, and the drop-out rate is twice that of boys starting at puberty. Considering that staying in school means girls are four times less likely to contract HIV, five times less likely to become teen mothers, and can earn 10 to 20 percent more, it becomes clear that it is necessary to work on keeping these young women in the classroom.

Mukuria believes that pads for girls, though crucial, are only one part of the equation. Her group is developing a new, more affordable pad that can be distributed widely to meet womens' needs and offer a sustainable and scalable business model. They are reinventing the pad-leveraging agricultural byproducts, streamlining the process, and creating a high-quality, radically affordable pad that helps solve an environmental problem rather than creating one.

They have also designed engaging comics to provide critical health education to girls in a way that is fun, standardized, and easily sharable. Young women can better take control of their lives and livelihoods and inspire those around them to do the same.

65 percent of women and girls in Kenya cannot afford pads. This means that over 850,000 girls miss 6 weeks of school every year and women miss valuable work hours. The problem is worse across East Africa with 4 in 5 unable to afford pads.

Reusable pads and rags are the alternatives, but can be unhygienic, leading to long-term health complications. They also cause embarrassing leaks. Girls would rather stay home than risk such humiliation

ZanaAfrica's mission is to produce the lowest-cost, most eco-responsible sanitary pad in the world and to provide large-scale, cascading impact to women and intermediary partners through distribution.

By 2020 ZanaAfrica will directly support 3 million girls and women with pads, to sustainably win back 5 million school days, 2 million work hours and $1 million to reinvest in their families. They will equip 23,000 saleswomen to earn an additional $100/year.

For more information go to http://www.zanaafrica.org/ .

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Courageous Typhoon Heroes Win Adelina Awards

TACLOBAN, Philippines, Nov. 20, 2013 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Several individuals and groups who exemplified great valor in the face of unimaginable tragedy during Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) have been honored by receiving the Adelina Award, the most prestigious prize in the Philippines awarded for humanitarian relief efforts, according to Lydia Ramos and Sarah Mendel of the World Mind Network and Friends Beyond Borders, who chair the Awards Committee.

The first Award went to the staff, residents and management of the Streetlight Orphanage in Tacloban, including founder Erlend Johannessen. "We were on the roof, all of us, five-meter waves pounding our walls, building shaking, 300 kilometer winds, and we were just holding on for our dear lives. But my kids are so, so brave. My staff is so amazing. They really showed true Filipino spirit. They refused to give up. They were holding onto each other. Even if they were not their own kids, they held them as if they were their own kids," Johannessen said.

Another recipient is the medical team from Mammoth Medical Missions in California, which stationed a group of 16 doctors and support staff in the ruined Town Hall of Tanauan, 30 kilometers south of Tacloban. Working under wartime conditions with no power, running water, or sufficient supplies, they performed more than 100 surgeries, including amputations and C-sections, in three days soon after the typhoon.

Medala moms is a group of Filipinas who were honored with an Adelina Award for donating breast milk to desperate mothers of infants in the typhoon zone. They work in cooperation with the Philippine General Hospital Milk Bank which uses the latest technology to preserve the breast milk and transport it to calamity-stricken areas.

British engineer Jonathan Fitzpatrick won the Award for his heroic actions in saving dozens of people trapped in the Ormoc Villa Hotel on the morning the typhoon made landfall with 170 mph winds. He and his colleagues kicked in blocked doors, shuttled people to relatively safe stairwells, and provided water until the wind subsided. According to his family, he at first thought he and the others were going to die, but decided that if he was going to perish, he would do so while fighting.

Rex Raymond Torrecampo from Batangas, Philippines, won the prize for his brilliant analysis of the tragedy which appeared on his blog LifeSoMundane. He pointed out that much misery can be avoided during disasters like typhoons for which the storm path is fairly predictable well beforehand, by storing relief supplies close to, but just outside of the estimated storm track.

Dr. Joji Tomioka and his team of 26 doctors and support staff from Japan won the Adelina Award for their ground-breaking use of new technology in the field. They deployed wireless mobile X-ray units, developed after the devastating tsunami which hit Fukushima, Japan in 2011. A small camera scans the patient, and its information is sent to an iPad and thence to a laptop. Using typical thumb and forefinger iPad gestures, doctors can zero in on an image to see exactly where a lesion or bone break might be. The Japanese team is currently seeing about 200 patients a day.

NASA and the Italian Space Agency won an Award for work performed by their ARIA (Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis) team. They produced a space-based map of the Tacloban region which helps disaster relief authorities by depicting minute surface changes in the terrain caused by natural or human-produced damage.

For more information go to http://philippinetyphoonrelief.net/ . To help typhoon victims, go to http://www.redcross.org.ph/ .

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Philippines Employs ‘Lumpia Strategy’ to Counter Chinese Expansion

AYUNGIN ISLAND, Philippines, Nov. 1, 2013 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- An under-the-radar struggle for disputed island reefs is evolving in the South China Sea, between China and the Philippines, and the tactics employed by each side are named after foods, according to Reina Prince, global strategist for the NGO Friends Beyond Borders.

The area called Reed Bank contains hundreds of relatively unimpressive deserted islands and shoals, but what is really valuable to both nations is under the surface. Some estimates are that the seabed beneath the area holds 55 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, as well as 5.4 billion barrels of crude oil.

China has aggressively asserted its claims to the area, sending more and more navy ships, research vessels, and fishing boats over the last few years. For its part, the Philippines has grounded an abandoned WWII era ship, the Sierra Madre, on a lonely reef in the disputed area, and manned it with eight Marines.

General Zhang Zhaozhong, of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, has described China's long term plan as "the Cabbage Strategy" which means the effort to flood a disputed area of island-dotted ocean with so many boats that "the island is thus wrapped layer by layer like a cabbage."

Referring to recent efforts to take land from the Philippines, Zhang said "We should do more such things in the future. For those small islands, only a few troopers are able to station on each of them, but there is no food or even drinking water there. If we carry out the cabbage strategy, you will not be able to send food and drinking water onto the islands. Without the supply for one or two weeks, the troopers stationed there will leave the islands on their own. Once they have left, they will never be able to come back."

The Philippine government has responded with what Prince calls the "Lumpia Strategy," named after the famous Filipino egg roll stuffed with vegetables (including cabbage) and sometimes meat. It aims to preserve Filipino sovereignty over the islands by maintaining possession and fishing rights. Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon, whose territory includes Ayungin Island, tries to help the military re-supply the troops on the distant outpost, for which he and the marines have been honored with the Adelina Award, but Chinese interference is making such efforts more and more difficult. Only sustained support from the people and government can keep the garrison intact.

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Students use Social Media to help Victims of Earthquake in Philippines

CEBU CITY, Philippines, Oct. 17, 2013 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- In efforts spearheaded by the World Mind Network, Friends Beyond Borders, and Batangas Varsitarian, young people from around the world used Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Skype, Friendster, and SMS tracking sites to help rescuers locate and aid victims of the recent earthquake in the central Philippines. The 7.2 magnitude quake struck the region of Bohol Island and Cebu just after 8 a.m. local time on October 15, 2013.

So far 161 have been confirmed dead, with hundreds injured, 19,000 homes severely damaged, and major losses to roads and infrastructure. According to Sarah Mendel and John Toomey of the World Mind Network, students from Stanford, Harvard, Emory, Utah, the University of Batangas, Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, and several others participated.

"It's becoming more and more obvious that the power people possess in the palm of their hand, namely their Smart phone or tablet, has enormous power to help people instantly," said Toomey. "Disasters like this are the most self-evident example, but the same principle applies to every kind of humanitarian, public health, and educational assistance."

Every month the Adelina Award is presented by BatangasVarsitarian.net to someone who has performed heroically on behalf of Batangas or the Philippines in the fields of Humanitarian aid, Education, Public Health, Disaster Relief, or Economic Improvement.

This week five Adelina Awards are being announced, all for people and organizations who have rendered service far beyond the call of duty in helping the victims of the Bohol earthquake:

Robert Michael Poole: Mr. Poole traveled all over Bohol on the day of the quake, taking photos which documented the destruction. Many were useful in helping rescuers locate and save victims. You can see his photos here:
http://twitchy.com/2013/10/15/major-earthquake-strikes-the-philippines-photos/ .

Mae of Natura Vista resort in Bohol, who is offering free lodging packages to those who donate to earthquake relief:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=481326218631357&set=a.150384555058860.30245.137800462983936&type=1&theater .

Bangon Bohol, a group of Boholanos from throughout the Philippines who have devoted thousands of hours to helping victims:
https://www.facebook.com/OplanBangonBohol .

Narcisa Barbanida has been awarded the honor posthumously. She died saving her daughter. See:
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/video/nation/regions/10/17/13/mom-dies-saving-daughter-during-bohol-quake .

Philippine Airlines (PAL), which has activated its Humanitarian Cargo Grant program. PAL will accept donations to be transported for free to Tagbiliran City in Bohol and Cebu. Certified volunteer doctors and medical specialists who will be participating in the ongoing relief efforts may also receive free air transportation via PAL.

Help is still needed, and resources and information on how to assist are listed on the group's site at http://philippineearthquakerelief.org/ as well as at batangasvarsitarian.net. For more information, or to make suggestions contact theworldmindnetwork@gmail.com.

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