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The KFWH 2012 Newsletter

The KFWH 2012 Newsletter

 Dear Advisory Boards, Friends of KFWH,Student Members of KFWH,  Another year, and another wish for Hope for all the world’s people!  On behalf of the Student Policy Board and the KFWH Board of Directors, Happy Holiday Season!  Our Immediate Goals for the Year 2013! 1. To continue our project/action work for the treatment of     Chagas Disease in the region of Camiri, Boliva. 2. To complete and launch our newly designed website with     Marcia Kalisch, website designer. 3. To establish communication sites that will enhance our interactive     dialogues among villagers, patients, healthcare workers and     kfwh students in the United States. 4. To search foundations for grant funding. 5. To expand our membership through Home Base District.                 What Makes Us Different? Kids for World Health was founded and defined by the voice of students. KFWH provides the opportunity for students to tangibly impact the world powerfully and positively, giving understanding to the impact of action and voice. Kids for World Health uses fundraising as an...

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Larchmont Students Fight for World Health

Larchmont Students Fight for World Health

Larchmont Daily Voice, December 28, 2011 LARCHMONT, N.Y. — Students from Kay Kobbe’s 2001 third-grade class founded Kids For World Health, an organization that reaches far beyond her Chatsworth Avenue classroom. Read article...

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NYTimes Pulitzer Prize- Winning Journalist, Nicholas Kristof to Be Guest Speaker at Kids for World Health Sponsored Event

NYTimes Pulitzer Prize- Winning Journalist, Nicholas Kristof to Be Guest Speaker at Kids for World Health Sponsored Event

Sound Shore, March 2, 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof will give a speech, “Combating Poverty and Global Health Issues: the Impact of Youth Involvement and Community Activism,” at 7 p.m. March 14 at Mamaroneck High School, 1000 W. Boston Post Rd. His talk will headline “An Evening for Understanding,” a community event sponsored by the student nonprofit Kids For World Health. There will also be a presentation about the work students are doing with the nonprofit to fight poverty and health problems in places like Lwala, Uganda. The suggested ticket donation is $10 for adults and $3 for students, with proceeds used to fund the nonprofit’s latest charity projects. Comment by the Editor: A focus on student understanding and work, Mr. Kristof offered students this important  message among others:”It is important to move out of your comfort zone.” Based on global studies, Nicholas Kristof’s book with wife and author Cheryl WuDunn, speaks about the hope that we can place in the women of the world’s...

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Kids for World Health Working on 5th African Clinic

Kids for World Health Working on 5th African Clinic

Larchmont Gazette, May 20, 2010 Imagine being a patient who needs an operation, only to find a shortage of equipment and medicines to ensure a safe outcome? That’s the predicament Kids for World Health will be working to prevent at their World Health Fest on Sunday, May 23 from noon to 2:30 at Larchmont’s Constitution Park (next to the Larchmont Fire Department). Read article...

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Founders of Kids for World Health To Visit First Lady

Founders of Kids for World Health To Visit First Lady

Larchmont Gazette, November 15, 2007 Founders of Kids for World Health, a not-for-profit grassroots organization begun in 2001 by Chatsworth School students when they were in the third grade, will be visiting the White House on Monday, November 19. The group’s mission is to raise awareness of the world’s most neglected diseases and to help in the effort to eliminate them. When one of the students, Sarah Comerford, wrote to the First Lady about Kids for World Health, the result was an invitation to a private meeting for the founders with Laura Bush. Read article...

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Kids for World Health Wins Martin Luther King, Jr.Award

Kids for World Health Wins Martin Luther King, Jr.Award

Larchmont Gazette ...A second award, for an organization, will go to the now-international movement, Kids For World Health, which was started in 2001 by 3rd graders at Chatsworth School, guided by their teacher, Kay Kobbe. The original founders, who are still working for the cause as seniors in the Mamaroneck High School, will accept the award on behalf of the organization… Read the article here. Comments from the Editor: In January, 2010, Kids for World Health received the MLK, Jr. Human RightsCommittee Award for service to the world’s poor. Other awards received at the ceremony were the following Recognition from the New York State Senate The Town of Mamaroneck The U.S. House of Representatives The U.S. Senate The New York State Assembly Declaration of  a Kids for World Health Day President William Clinton Kids for World Health thanks the Human Rights Committee  for this honor      ...

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