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The Savvy Traveler is the proud recipient of a 2000 Gracie Allen
Award™ from American Women in Radio and Television for our feature
"Cholera Diary." AWRT said the piece "displays superior quality and
effectively portrays the changing roles and concerns of women."
American Women in Radio and Television, Inc. is a national,
non-profit organization dedicated to advancing women in the
electronic media and related fields.
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Cholera Diary
by Joelle Pouliot
I'm sure you heard that the humanitarian group Doctors without
Borders won the Nobel Peace Prize last week. For those of you who
don't know, Doctors without Borders is the world's largest
independent, international medical relief agency. These physicians
aid the victims of war and natural disasters who don't have health
care because they live in remote areas of the world. The volunteers
do everything from emergency surgery to vaccinating children to
training local medical staff. Today, we hear the diary of Joelle
Pouliot, a physician from Canada, who joined Doctors without Borders
to help others...and ended up learning quite a bit about herself
along the way.
Savvy Resources:
- The official site of the Nobel Foundation
http://www.nobel.se/
- The Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.nobel.no/indexen.html
The Norwegian Nobel Committee's information site
- Doctors Without Borders
http://www.dwb.org/
News from nonprofit, private international humanitarian organization
whose objective is to provide medical relief to populations in crisis
- Mission Doctors Association
http://www.MissionDoctors.org/
Sponsors Catholic physicians and their families -- both long and short term volunteer opportunities to mission hospitals and clinics in Africa
- Action Without Borders
http://www.idealist.org/
Links to disaster relief organizations, emergency services and
disaster monitoring services on the Web
- Peace Corps
http://www.peacecorps.gov/
Guide explains the program and how to become a volunteer, with news,
details of current activities and history
- Habitat for Humanity International
http://www.habitat.org/
Christian ministry committed to providing shelter offers world
housing statistics and volunteer details
- Cross-Cultural Solutions
http://www.crossculturalsolutions.org/
Volunteer Work Programs: Global, Foreign, and Overseas Destinations
- Voluntary Service Overseas
http://www.vso.org.uk/
A charity that sends volunteers to work with communities in the
developing world
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