Message-ID: <359CDBA3.5CB749B4@idn.org> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:24:51 -0400 From: "Christopher L. Byrne, Director" <mailto:info@IDN.ORG> Subject: NBC'S 'Dateline' Features World Vision's Work in Sudan To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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Emmy-Winning Newsmagazine Show Spotlights A Minneapolis Nurse And Grandmother Serving In Famine-Stricken African Nation
Seattle, July 3, 1998 (IDN) -- The remarkable efforts of a nurse working in war-ravaged Sudan will be featured in a segment of NBC's "Dateline" program this evening.
Karen Easterday, 56, of the Minneapolis area, runs a feeding center for the international Christian relief and development organization. The center feeds more than 1,000 people a day in Thiet, a small town southern Sudan.
Easterday, who devotes three months each year to assisting the poor, also has worked for World Vision in Angola. Her work for World Vision is supported by Fairview Hospital and Healthcare Service, and the Fairview Foundation in Minneapolis.
"Maybe being a grandmother makes me especially sensitive to the plight of these children," Easterday says.
The "Dateline" medical correspondent, Dr. Bob Arnot, traveled to Sudan in June as a private citizen and physician. After witnessing the famine firsthand, he said he felt compelled to cover the tragedy as well as the hope brought to the people of southern Sudan by World Vision staff, such as Easterday.
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