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Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d
Andrew Mitrovica
Sharona Margolin Halickman
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Jennifer Gerlach Lcsw
Gideon Levy
While we argue over signs at Grand Central Station, humanity cries out in silence
Three important topics over the last two weeks - Africa, Myanmar and German-occupied Poland - and one very irritating thought.
I attended an exhibition run by Concern Worldwide highlighting the situation in the African Congo. It’s called And So, I Fled The Crisis the World Ignored. Sadly I learned the world is still ignoring...
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I spent some time in the Congo and saw the men, women and children live and sleep on the sharp volcanic rocks trying to exist in the heat and away from the war. I met one old lady over 100 years of age who was carried on a huge banana leaf by her son, both fleeing the conflict.
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Jackie Trainor, NI director of Concern Worldwide, with board member Wesley Moody at an exhibition highlighting the charity's work in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Concern is also involved in the aid effort to Myanmar following last month's devastating earthquake-
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