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“End the Neglect” – Notre Dame Style

November 9th, 2010

The student-run group ND Fighting NTDs at the University of Notre Dame is sponsoring a campus Haiti Awareness Week November 8-14, 2010! ND Fighting NTDs is a student-driven initiative dedicated to the awareness, political will and funding necessary to control and eliminate the most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – a group of disabling, disfiguring and deadly diseases affecting more than 14 billion people worldwide with cures that are available but underfunded. Publicity Chair Eileen Lynch has kindly provided End the Neglect with a blog post about the week’s festivities, along with a an innovative case for support video that ND Fighting NTDs created.

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By: Eileen Lynch

To solve a problem you’ve got to know the problem. That’s the theory behind NTD Awareness Week, hosted Nov. 8-14 by Notre Dame University’s newest social concerns club, ND Fighting NTDs. When most people hear “NTD” they have no idea what that means. ND Fighting NTDs is determined to change that. This whole week the club will be hosting various fundraisers and events aimed at informing the Notre Dame community of the insidious affects of the world’s most forgotten plagues.

We started with the playful: giving away free “silly bandz” bracelets in the shape of bugs to let people know we are a presence on campus. On Wednesday, the fundraising starts. Five Guys, a local restaurant, will donate 10% of all sales between 7:00 and 10:00 pm to ND Fighting NTDs. On Thursday we will be selling “dirt cup” desserts, with oreos, pudding and gummy worms to educate people about how NTDs are spread. Each cup comes with a gritty fact about NTDs. Finally, on Friday, ND Fighting NTDs is hosting a concert and petition signing, where we ask for support from our congressman in ending the neglect of tropical diseases.

For ND Fighting NTDs, Awareness Week is just the beginning. By the end of the week, we want everyone on campus to know about and be horrified by NTDs. From there, the possibilities are endless for garnering support and funds in the battle to save lives. The Fighting Irish are proud to fight the neglect!

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Weekly Blog Round Up 9/20-9/24

September 24th, 2010

This week on End the Neglect…

1.On Monday Anjana Padmanabhan wrote  about the DC hosted ”TedxFoggyBottom” and the discussion, “The Future We Make,” examining the reasons why the Millennium Development Goals are important, TedxChange:Change is Possible

2.We had multiple entries focusing on women and maternal health, Dale Hanson President of CIDRZ wrote for us, Moving Women Out of Last Place, and 2 blog entries re-posted from Women Delivers, The Clock is Ticking: Make Every Woman Count and Key Leaders at UN MDG Summit Commit to Investing in Women

3.We received wonderful blogs about the MDG summit too! Dr. Eric Legally wrote, The Millennium Development Goals: Engineering Good and Kelly Rowland is promoting MDGs this week with her video,Help Spread the Buss about the MDGs.

4.Our very own policy intern Morgan Kamanski contributed to our blog this week as well, writing about Fighting Diseases to Achieve Millennium Development Goal 6

5. Alanna Shaikh wrote about the overwhelming presence of corporations in the past week , calling it The Corporatization of Global Health

6. We have been extremely lucky to have our strategic communications and media outreach Associate, Anjana Padmanabhan, live blogging from the MDG summit in New York! Giving us an Insider Guide to UN Week She Kicked off the UN Week in t he Digital Media Lounge, wrote about Localization, Transparency, and Integration Key Themes at UN Digital Media Lounge, and about  NTDs Creeping into Conversations at the UN Week Digital Media Lounge. She also gave us a perspective on Delivering for Women and Children: Maternal/Child Health and MDGs, exposed us to Raj Shah Makes Appearance at UN Week! and she then Wrapped Up the Week for our readers!

7. We also posted some MDG related videos on our blog, Saving Lives and Achieving MDG 4 Through Soccer! and Everyone Has a Role – The Millennium Development Goals

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The Global Network Takes On New York City’s Times Square!

August 23rd, 2010

Happy Monday readers!

We have some exciting news to share with you! The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases was given the exciting opportunity to showcase a short video on the CBS Super Screen in bustling New York City’s Times Square. The video will run for 15 seconds of every hour, 18 hours a day for 60 days —receiving in excess of 1.5 million viewers daily!

Take a look at the video below (also embedded in the sidebar on the right) and join our Global Network Ambassador Alyssa Milano by texting “LIFE” to 30644 to learn more on how you can help End the Neglect.

P.S.  If you happen to be in New York, wandering through Times Square (particularly on 42nd St. between 7th and 8th Ave)  and see our video on the CBS Super Screen , take a photo, send it in and we’ll post it!

 

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Millions and Billions

July 26th, 2010

Photo Credit: Lindsay Wheeler

By: Tara Hayward, Resource Development Officer, Sabin Vaccine Institute

The economy has started to thaw and donors of the world are beginning to relax. Bill and Melinda Gates, along with Warren Buffett, have a launched an epic challenge for the world’s billionaires – Give away half of what you have.  While The Giving Pledge is specifically focused on billionaires, it feeds on inspiration from philanthropic efforts that encourage everyone – of all financial means and backgrounds. We all can help make the world a better place, right?

In the context of all the millions and billions of dollars floating around, as donors, we naturally start to wonder if we can do anything, if we can make any impact with a $20 donation to our favorite cause. The answer? Yes!

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