Lessons from Haiti Tackling acute & Chronic disasters The 17 th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium Dear Students, Each year, the Thomas J. White Symposium brings together Partners In Health staff, family, friends, and fellow advocates for health and social justice for the poor. We are pleased to have you – along with thousands of students worldwide – join us for the 17th annual symposium on September 25th, 2010. This guide outlines the basic steps for planning a Symposium Viewing Party at your school. When making this event your own, we encourage you to engage across all levels of students, groups, faculty, and staff to foster full participation on your campus. While the symposium will focus on our community-based work at twelve country sites, it also offers a chance for your different campus groups to come together and consider how you can act together for global health equity and social justice issues. The theme for this year’s Thomas J. White Symposium is “Lessons from Haiti: Tackling Acute and Chronic Disasters”. As we come together to pause and reflect on this past year, we draw strength from solidarity. We thank you for gathering with us, and broadening the student movement for global health equity. Sincerely, Ophelia Dahl Executive Director Get involved at www.pih.org
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Lessons from Haiti Tackling acute & Chronic disasters
The 17th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium
Dear Students,
Each year, the Thomas J. White Symposium brings together Partners In Health staff, family, friends, and fellow advocates for health and social justice for the poor. We are pleased to have you – along with thousands of students worldwide – join us for the 17th annual symposium on September 25th, 2010.
This guide outlines the basic steps for planning a Symposium Viewing Party at your school. When making this event your own, we encourage you to engage across all levels of students, groups, faculty, and staff to foster full participation on your campus.
While the symposium will focus on our community-based work at twelve country sites, it also offers a chance for your different campus groups to come together and consider how you can act together for global health equity and social justice issues.
The theme for this year’s Thomas J. White Symposium is “Lessons from Haiti: Tackling Acute and Chronic Disasters”. As we come together to pause and reflect on this past year, we draw strength from solidarity. We thank you for gathering with us, and broadening the student movement for global health equity.
Sincerely,
Ophelia Dahl Executive Director
Get involved atwww.pih.org
Save the date! This year’s Thomas J. White Symposium is on Saturday, September 25. Speakers begin at 3 p.m. EDT.
Print checklist and use this step-by-step to track your planning progress. Check off the boxes as you go!
Register online and create your event page at www.pih.org/symposium. Here you can track attendance and connect with other viewing party hosts around the country.
Collaborate with friends and student groups. As your co-hosts, they can help you prepare for the big day.
Find space in advance. Book a classroom or larger auditorium, based on expected attendance.
Get equipped to screen the live feed. You’ll need a computer and internet access. For a large audience, you may need speakers for better sound. If your venue has an audio/visual system, make sure you’ll have access on the day.
Send invitations to friends and teachers, using our invitation tool on act.pih.org. Invitees will receive a link to your event details and can RSVP.
Publicize to get the word out! Customize the included Symposium Flier to print and post around campus. Reach out to your online networks through Facebook and Twitter.
Post Fliers• Network online• Add to school calendar• Contact student newspapers/radio stations• Write to student and departmental mailing lists•
Don’t forget…Write down any other items (nametags, refreshments, email sign-up sheets, etc.) or details to consider:
Lives of service depend on lives of support.
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”Quote from Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Tip: Reach out to faculty and staff for guidance and support.
Tip: Contact your school’s media services staff for help with equipment.
Tip: Contact your school’s media services staff for help with equipment.
Lessons from Haiti Tackling acute & Chronic disasters
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Poverty in a place like Haiti is difficult to personalize. If it’s in front of you, it has a reality.
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”Alan Ezekowitz, quoted in Mountains Beyond Mountains
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At Your PartySet up your computer or projection system before your guests are scheduled to arrive. Get oriented with the controls to avoid technical difficulties.
Welcome your guests at the door. Before the viewing starts, take a minute to welcome the group, say a few words about your interest in PIH, and thank them for coming.
Watch the live feed at www.pih.org/symposium from 3 – 5 p.m. EDT.
Discuss your thoughts, reflections, or questions with the group.
Wrap up by thanking your guests again, and pointing out the email sign-up sheet for those who want to stay involved.
Following UpThank your co-hosts for helping behind the scenes – call them up or write a note.
Share and let us know how it went! Email your sign-up information with pictures and stories from your viewing party to Elise at [email protected]
Join the greater student movement at act.pih.org/students
Learn more about PIH and the issues we face at www.pih.org.
Discussion prompt: As individuals, how do you stay involved with the movement for global health equity? As a school, what resources do you have to support these efforts?
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If people could be kept from dying unnecessarily, then one had to act.
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”Quote from Mountains Beyond Mountains
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What’s Next?Thank you for attending the 17th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium! We welcome you to stay involved in any way you wish, and to take the next step by visiting www.pih.org/what-you-can-do. Here are some ideas to consider:
Reach out to the PIH movement in your area: See what kind of global health clubs exist at your school, and look for • chapters of student organizations like FACE AIDS and GlobeMed.Find people, groups, or events near you at • act.pih.org
Bring PIH to your communityTalk to your teachers and local librarians about putting • Mountains Beyond Mountains on summer reading lists.Request a PIH speaker to visit and address your community. • Whether you’re a student or an educator, talk to your school’s administration • about creating classes or units for social justice and global health.
Host an event for PIH:Gather friends and plan a dinner party, movie night, dance marathon, • kickball tournament, benefit concert, bake sale, knitting club—whatever interests you! Email Elise at • [email protected]
And more: Volunteer at a community-based organization in your area. • Consider how social justice fits into your daily life: drink fair trade coffee, • learn about where the products you buy are made, engage in learning about the issues of inequity in your own community. Watch videos on PIH’s Health and Social Justice Video Network and share • them with your friends: www.pih.org/globalhealthequity
Find out how to do all this and more at www.pih.org/what-you-can-do
Lessons from Haiti Tackling acute & Chronic disasters
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Lessons from Haiti Tackling acute & Chronic disasters
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
Wòch nan Soley: The Denial of the Right to Water in HaitiThis report from Partners In Health and three other groups reveals the United States government’s clandestine efforts to ensure that political considerations (namely the desire to destabilize Haiti’s elected government at that time, led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide) took precedence over the rights of some of the planet’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
Chapter 4, “Hypocrisies of Development and the Health of the Haitian Poor.”• Chapter 5, “Theoretical Therapies, Remote Remedies: SAPs and the Political • Ecology of Poverty and Health in Africa.”
For excerpts relevant to the Symposium, see:• Chapter 10, “The Consumption of the Poor.”• Chapter 15, “Women, Poverty, and AIDS.”• Chapter 16, “On Suffering and Structural Violence.”• Chapter 20, “’Landmine Boy’ and Stupid Deaths.”•
For additional suggestions, visit our website: www.pih.org/pages/recommended-reading/
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Join us for a live viewing & discussion.
Speakers include: PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer PIH Executive Director Ophelia Dahl PIH leaders from around the world
RSVP: www.pih.org/symposium
Questions? Contact:
www.pih.org/symposium
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Saturday, September 253 - 5pm EST
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Event attendee sign-up form
Fax completed sign-up forms to PIH at 617.432.5300 or email them to [email protected].