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The national budget represents the common resources of the people of the United States. Yet only a handful of experts understand the full impact of budget policy on the American people. Since women comprise just a fraction of national decision-makers, women's needs and perspectives are largely left out of budget policy-a critical absence during our current era of rising deficits, increasing military and security budgets, and cutbacks in public investment. Women and the U.S. Budget helps fill th

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Global NGO Project HOPE Says Health Education Is Crucial for Indonesia’s Women Seven Years After Deadly Tsunami

Global NGO Project HOPE Says Health Education Is Crucial for Indonesia’s Women Seven Years After Deadly Tsunami

HOPE’s Health Education Programs Are Empowering Indonesia’s Health Workers

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Maternal and Child Health Programs Empowering Communities for Better Health

Global NGO Project HOPE says health education has been the driving force in rebuilding healthy and stable lives for women and children in post-tsunami Indonesia, and in helping to reconstruct a shattered health care system, as the country remembers the disaster that washed over the region seven years ago on December 26.

A staggering 226,000 people were killed when a tsunami, triggered by a 9.15-magnitude earthquake, struck Indonesia’s Aceh Province on Sumatra Island on December 26, 2004. It was seen as one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent history as over 1.7 million people were displaced in the worst affected countries – Indonesia, India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

“The region’s health care system was already in disrepair after 30 years of civil war which made it difficult for many to access nation-wide health initiatives. The tsunami compounded the problem, exposing women and children to a crisis in health care,” said Dr. Nasaruddin Sheldon, Project HOPE’s Country Director in Indonesia.

Project HOPE, a global health education and humanitarian assistance organization, responded to the humanitarian crisis by sending more than 200 medical volunteers aboard the United States Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy, as well as donating more than $ 7 million in medical supplies and medicines.

Again in 2006, when an earthquake hit Indonesia’s Central Java region, HOPE responded with a Mobile Health Caravan that traveled to remote areas to provide pediatric care, psychotherapy, physical therapy, health worker training, and data collection and surveillance.

In Aceh Province, one of the most underserved areas of Indonesia due to its geographic inaccessibility and the impact of the 2004 tsunami, HOPE programs have improved the health of women and children in two sub-districts by expanding access to quality maternal and child health services through the promotion of healthy behaviors.    

The Big Lottery Fund, a grant-making public body in the United Kingdom awarded Project HOPE a grant in 2007 to implement a maternal and child health project in Aceh Barat. The project, which ends in February, was implemented in 68 villages, addressing the health needs of over 8,500 women of reproductive age and 3,622 children under the age of five.

“HOPE’s health education efforts in Aceh Barat have strengthened morale in this community after the tsunami destroyed many lives. People truly value their health now more than ever. This project has strengthened health providers’ knowledge and skills in promoting and supporting improved immunization systems, and improving the quality of maternal health services while building the capacity of village health committees, health posts and other community-based organizations and individuals, including village midwives, health attendants and community health workers,” said Dr. Sheldon.

In Nagan Raya, HOPE’s Child-to-Child program, also sponsored by the Big Lottery Fund, has trained elementary school teachers on common infant, child and maternal health problems and desired health behaviors. The teachers in turn teach their fifth-grade students the same health lessons, which are then shared with siblings and other family members at home to improve health knowledge. The importance of early and exclusive breastfeeding, management of diarrhea, malaria treatment, growth monitoring and nutrition, acute respiratory infection, immunization and personal hygiene are among the topics covered at school.

Almost 90 percent of 143 elementary schoolsl in Nagan Raya implemented the program, reaching more than 2,600 fifth-grade students. This health education model was expanded to all elementary schools in Nagan Raya as decreed by the District Education Office.

Midwife training has had much success in teaching midwives how to handle problems in newborns including low-birth weight, respiratory infections and early signs of infection. HOPE trainers also educate midwives about exclusive breastfeeding and the necessity of delivering with a skilled birth attendant.

Project HOPE successfully trained over 100 midwives and 72 traditional birth attendants, vastly improving the chances of a healthy birth and the overall health of the mother and child.

“The value of the behavior changes in communities that received health education is immeasurable – women felt empowered and therefore children are impacted in positive ways as well,” said Dr. Sheldon.

About Project HOPE

Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, and conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries.

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Although women constitute half of the Jewish population and have always played essential roles in ensuring Jewish continuity and the preservation of Jewish beliefs and values, only recently have their contributions and achievements received sustained scholarly attention. Scholars have begun to investigate Jewish women’s domestic, economic, intellectual, spiritual, and creative roles in Jewish life from biblical times to the present. Yet little of this important work has filtered down beyond sp

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Getting a flu shot is the first and most important step in protecting against flu. The flu shot given during pregnancy has been shown to protect both the mother and her baby (up to 6 months old) from flu. (The nasal spray vaccine should not be given to women who are pregnant.) Learn more about the……
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Olin College Receives $180,000 Grant from Luce Foundation to Fund Undergraduate Research for Women

Olin College Receives $ 180,000 Grant from Luce Foundation to Fund Undergraduate Research for Women

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Through its Clare Boothe Luce Program, the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., of New York City, has made a grant of $ 180,000 to Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering to fund undergraduate research awards for up to 24 women students over a three-year period. The awards, which will begin in 2013, will provide stipends and other support to women students at Olin to pursue research with a faculty advisor. The recipients will be known as Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars.

“We are very pleased that the Luce Foundation has recognized Olin’s leadership in preparing women for careers in science and engineering,” said Richard K. Miller, president of Olin College. “Recruiting talented women, as well as talented men, has always been an important goal of our admission activities. This is just one of the many ways we empower women for success as scientists and engineers. These awards will provide a significant boost to our efforts to attract high-performing women to our innovative program and prepare them to become top-notch scholars, engineers and innovators.”

The CBL Research Scholars Program at Olin College will provide women students who have completed their first or second year an opportunity to pursue a research project full-time in the summer and part-time during the following school year. Other activities in which Olin’s CBL Scholars will participate include a weekly facilitated discussion group open to all members of the Olin community; relationship building with mentors and peers; public presentation of their work; travel to professional conferences; publication of the results of their work; and, as appropriate, campus visits to explore graduate school and career options with researchers active in their fields of interest. The funding from the Luce Foundation will provide additional resources to supplement existing initiatives at Olin in support of women and men pursuing science and engineering careers.

“We are thrilled to begin the Clare Boothe Luce Research Program at Olin College,” said Sarah Spence Adams, project director and professor of mathematics and electrical and computer engineering at Olin. “The program will provide women students with additional meaningful research experiences and close mentoring relationships with dedicated faculty research advisors. The skills and perspectives our students gain through this program, including participating in professional technical conferences, will be transformative.”

Each award will provide a stipend for research during the summer, summer housing, an additional stipend and four course credits for research continued through the following academic year and access to additional funds to cover research-related expenses, conference registration fees and travel costs. Olin College will contribute faculty time, summer on-campus housing, mentoring activities and mentor support.

“We intend to build a strong support network among the Clare Booth Luce Research Scholars and the program mentors, and we hope our students will continue to use this network after graduation, while they are in graduate school or pursuing their careers,” said Adams. “Additionally, we hope to benefit students not directly involved in the program, for example through certain mentoring programs and activities that will be open to all students.”

Since its first grants in 1989, the Clare Boothe Luce Program has become the single most significant source of private support for women in science, mathematics and engineering. Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), the wife of Henry R. Luce, was a playwright, journalist, U.S. Ambassador to Italy and the first woman elected to Congress from Connecticut. Through her bequest establishing this program, she sought “to encourage women to enter, study, graduate and teach” in science, mathematics and engineering. The program is part of the New York-based Henry Luce Foundation, which was established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc. The Foundation focuses on broadening knowledge and encouraging the highest standards of service and leadership.

Opened in 2002, Olin College of Engineering is rapidly garnering a national reputation for innovation in engineering education. With only six classes of graduates and 430 alumni (43 percent women) to date, Olin is also emerging as a major producer of young women pursuing graduate degrees in science and engineering. Currently 45 percent of Olin’s student body is women, an unusually high proportion for an engineering school. Sixty-two Olin alumnae (35 percent) are currently enrolled in graduate programs, most of them at top-ranked universities, in areas including Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering. Twenty-one of these women have received the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (70 percent of Olin’s 30 NSF Graduate Fellowship recipients). Olin women have also won the Goldwater Scholarship and five Fulbright awards.

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