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Sam Kim

Philippians 1 - Passage Lookup - New International Version - BibleGateway.com - 0 views

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  • being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Janelle Gan

DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Water Shortages in Capital Leave Residents Desperate - IPS ipsnew... - 0 views

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Zimbabwe

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    • Janelle Gan
      Janelle Gan on 07 Mar 10
       
      This article is good for: Explaining experiences of people who actually went through the water crisis in Zimbabwe.
  • even though the city’s main supply dams are more than 60 percent full
  • Carrying a large bucket to work has become a daily task
  • ...30 more annotations...
  • With more than half of Harare's three million inhabitants now experiencing water shortages, residents are resorting to desperate measures to find supplies.
  • This building is never without water
  • fills his bucket at work to provide water for his wife and two children
  • poor suburb in the south-west of Harare
  • 50,000 dollars
  • carry with me a 20-litre bucket to bring water from my work place
  • borehole was sunk
  • intermittent
  • water shortages for some two years now, due mainly to poor management and ageing infrastructure
  • the water authority was not run by professionals
  • The experts believe the capital's water distribution system, built long before independence in 1980, has gone without proper maintenance for many years.
  • Critically important pumps that have an expected lifespan of between 15 and 20 years had not been replaced since they were installed, for instance.
  • attest
  • fetid
  • pool of sewage to build up around their house, and this outflow now slowly winds its way through the suburb to a nearby stream.
  • we have reported to ZINWA and they came…but as soon as they left the problem started (again)
  • effluent
  • primary school children who use a path alongside the Mashapa home are obliged to pick their way through waste matter
  • they buy vegetables from vendors who sell their wares right next to open sewage
  • Sometimes we get the water from the main local authority office, but today they are refusing to let us into their premises to fetch water
  • we are still paying our water bills in full
  • For the fortunate few who can afford membership for the city centre gym, visits there have become a necessity - not only for exercise, but also for a shower.
  • ZINWA, a parastatal, lacked funds, equipment and above all, the expertise to run the city’s water affairs
  • reiterates
  • local authorities and the public feel that ZINWA is not able to undertake this task
  • ZINWA has no capacity
  • implemented
  • ZINWA is in the process of extending its reach to other cities and towns including the country’s second largest city, Bulawayo
  • The water shortages constitute just one of many difficulties confronting Harare, and Zimbabwe as a whole.
  • food shortages
Patrick Yoon

What is an Ebola Virus?: An emerging disease from Africa. - 0 views

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ebola

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    • Patrick Yoon
      Patrick Yoon on 05 Mar 10
       
      this will tell me the different ebola viruses and what they do.
  • very, very, very, rare disease.
  • about 90% fatality rate
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  • After being infected by the virus it usually takes 6-12 days for a person to start getting sick.
  • The disease begins with fever, chills, headache, loss of appetite, and muscle aches. If the person has a very lethal strain of Ebola then the disease can get worse. Vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, sore throat, and chest pain can occur. The virus causes damage to the blood vessels of the patient and in severe cases the blood fails to clot. The patient may see blood in their stools and vomit. Their skin may have little pinpoint red spots like blood blisters. They may then go into shock from blood loss.
  • The largest epidemic infected 550 people
  • Africa
  • Philippines
  • There are 5 known Ebola viruses.
  • EBOT has only been reported infecting one person so far and that person survived.
  • There have only been 4 major outbreaks of human Ebola hemorrhagic fever in recorded history
Janelle Gan

Zimbabwe faces water and cholera crisis - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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Zimbabwe

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    • Janelle Gan
      Janelle Gan on 05 Mar 10
       
      This articles is good for: Explaining the water crisis in Harare, Zimbabwe, and the cholera problem
  • cesspools
  • taunt
  • ...31 more annotations...
  • a country where water and electricity supplies are off more than on.
  • epidemic
  • deadlocked
  • traced the deaths of two children last week to stinking open drains where she said the kids played.
  • people say they know unboiled water can make them ill, but that they have no choice.
  • they had been without running water for 13 months
  • dilapidated
  • Harare is the epicenter of the cholera epidemic, which has spread across the country and spilled over its borders.
  • The government has reported 473 deaths since August and a total of 11,700 people infected
  • intravenous
  • 4% of people are dying of a disease that usually claims fewer than 1% of those infected and is easily treated with rehydration salts
  • nobody can count those dying at home and in the countryside without medical care.
  • a shortage of staff
  • All the country's main hospitals have closed.
  • to operate can offer little care with no medicines
  • whose monthly salary does not cover one day's bus fare to get to work.
  • The opposition-controlled Harare City Council is burying cholera victims for free because people cannot afford to buy graves.
  • Zimbabwe's government, normally hostile to international aid agencies, is welcoming an initiative by several — including the U.N. Children's Fund, WHO and Doctors Without Borders — to provide emergency care as well as try to ensure safe water supplies.
  • Then, the best advice Health Minister David Parirenyatwa could offer was to urge people to stop shaking hands.
  • insisted the cholera outbreak was under contro
  • We are afraid but there is no solution
  • "I want to stress the issue of shaking hands. Although it's part of our tradition to shake hands, it's high time people stopped shaking hands," he told The Herald, a state newspaper.
  • turned the city into a playground for rats that threaten to spread other, more deadly, diseases.
  • Those who can afford it are sinking wells and boreholes.
  • Even money sometimes can't buy water.
  • "water Samaritans"
  • jerry cans
  • suburban residents who have wells or boreholes and are allowing people to fill buckets
  • "What I am afraid of is that now that the rainy season has come, all the feces lying in the bushes will be washed into shallow wells and contaminate the water," he said.
  • The application describes "large pools of raw sewerage" in the streets of the suburb, where the first cholera cases were reported.
  • This week, authorities turned off the taps in Zimbabwe's capital after the National Water Authority said it ran out of purifying chemicals and feared contaminated water would spread
Janelle Gan

BBC NEWS | Africa | 'Water crisis hinders cholera fight' - 0 views

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BBC water crisis zimbabwe

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      Janelle Gan on 05 Mar 10
       
      This article is good for: Explaining the affects of lack of clean water in Harare -- (Cholera and conditions)
  • hinders
  • Harare
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  • outbreak
  • prolonged
  • degradation
  • erratic
  • boreholes
  • dilute
  • Water supplies have now been restored where I live but only for an hour or so each day,
  • Our emergency clinic is treating about 200 severe cases.
  • In fact, many high-density areas of Harare have been without water for several months already.
  • cholera outbreak
  • The rainy season has just started in Harare, which will only make the situation worse.
  • But they cannot get clean water when they go back home.
  • Proper hygiene
  • There are not sufficient safe sources of drinking water.
  • Then it cut off completely in April and has not been back since.
  • The rain water will wash the bacteria into the shallow wells which people have dug to get drinking water.
  • This is the real minimum to treat cholera patients, who are dehydrated.
  • in Zimbabwe's capital.
  • This has become an incredible breeding ground for cholera.
  • after dealing with cholera.
  • And we are struggling to maintain even this minimum.
  • This is a major headache for our logistics officers.
  • of the water supply and sanitation systems are one of the root causes of the cholera outbreak.
  • Each one needs about 60 litres of water a day.
  • Then, when we release patients, we give them oral rehydration salts, containing salt and sugar, which they must
  • For example, in the Mabvuku and Tafara areas in the east of Harare, supplies started becoming
  • In the city centre, water supplies became erratic about a month ago.
  • We have enormous problems to get enough water to our clinic.
Juhee Kim

CBBC Newsround | WORLD | What is happening to child soldiers in Uganda? - 0 views

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      Juhee Kim on 05 Mar 10
       
      This website helps me on how the LRA effects the children in Uganda
  • kidnapping children
  • who want to live by strict Christian rules.
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  • Some are fortunate enough to be released after a few years
  • some manage to escape.
  • Sometimes their parents come and visit them on Sundays.
  • to the children who are released?
  • Some hospitals and church halls are opening their doors at night for children to stay there.
  • Last year, the UN said the situation in northern Uganda was worse than anywhere else in the world.
  • But the government says it's sure their army can defeat the rebels.
  • Therapy
  • some are even made to kill their friends or family.
  • Other countries around the world are aware of what's happening but so far not much has been done to help.
  • There are many children thought to be fighting with the LRA.
  • They are against the Ugandan government and have been fighting it for about 18 years.
  • Children can spend up to two months in these centres
  • The LRA claim they are representing a group of people living in the north of Uganda
Juhee Kim

BBC NEWS | Africa | Profile: Uganda's LRA rebels - 0 views

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      Juhee Kim on 07 Mar 10
       
      I think that this wabsite will help me under stan what the LRA does who it affects and why it was made.
  • Alice Lakewenya
  • regimes
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  • She was in turn defeated in 1987
  • often forced to kill their own parents so they have no way back.
  • Sudanese government and other sources.
  • LRA fighters who tried to explain Kony's philosophy.
  • why it is necessary to kill his own people, since they have - in his view - failed to support his cause.
  • They also believe that if they surrendered they would be killed by the government.
  • But many church and traditional leaders believe that only talking can halt the LRA's murderous campaign.
  • While he initially targeted government troops, he turned on civilians when the government sent civil defence militia against him.
  • frequently not even given guns to fight with.
  • Kony and his senior commanders live well, taking the pick of the girls they capture as wives.
  • but the reasons for their rebellion are less well known.
  • If the Acholi don't support us, they must be finished
  • President Museveni wishes to use military means to finish him off.
  • biblical references
Patrick Yoon

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Facts - 0 views

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ebola

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      Patrick Yoon on 05 Mar 10
       
      this site is going to be useful because it tells what ebola is, how its spread, etc.
  • Ebola hemorrhagic fever is one of the deadliest of a group of diseases
  • People infected with Ebola virus have sudden fever, weakness, muscle pain, headache, and sore throat, followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, limited kidney and liver functions, and both internal and external bleeding. Death rates range from 50% to 90%.
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  • Under normal circumstances, travelers are at low risk of getting the disease. To eliminate the risk, travelers should avoid areas where Ebola outbreaks are occurring.   This fact sheet is for information only and is not meant to be used for self-diagnosis or as a substitute for consultation with a health-care provider. If you have any questions about the disease described above, consult a health-care provider.
  • 550 cases and 340 deaths
  • Central Africa
  • The usual hosts for most of these viruses are rodents or arthropods (such as ticks and mosquitoes)
  • In 1995, an outbreak in Kikwit and surrounding areas in Bandundu Province, Zaire, caused 316 deaths
  • Diagnosis requires specialized laboratory tests on blood specimens. Handling blood from a persons infected with Ebola virus is an extreme biohazard and can be done only in specially equipped laboratories. Diagnosis in patients who have died can be made by testing tissue samples.
  • Symptoms begin 2 to 21 days after infection.
  • People get the disease by direct contact with virus-infected blood, body fluids, organs, or semen. The disease is spread mainly by close person-to-person contact with severely ill patients. This happens most often to hospital-care workers and family members who care for an ill person infected with Ebola virus. Close personal contact with persons who are infected but show no signs of active disease is very unlikely to result in infection. Transmission of the virus has also been linked to the re-use of hypodermic needles in the treatment of patients. Re-using needles is a common practice in developing countries, such as Zaire and Sudan, where the health-care system is underfinanced. Medical facilities in the United States do not re-use needles. Ebola virus can be spread from person to person through sexual contact. Persons who have recuperated from an illness caused by Ebola virus can still have the virus in their genital secretions for a short time after recovery and can spread the virus through sexual activity.
  • Ebola hemorrhagic fever is caused by several Ebola viruses
  • Ebola
  • filoviruses, arenaviruses, flaviviruses, and bunyaviruses
  • They range in seriousness from relatively mild illnesses to severe and potentially fatal diseases. All forms of viral hemorrhagic fever begin with fever and muscle aches. Depending on the virus, the disease can get worse until the patient becomes very ill with breathing problems, severe bleeding (hemorrhage), kidney problems, and shock.
  • There is no known cure or treatment. Severe cases need intensive supportive care.
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • The third outbreak, in 1979 in Sudan, was smaller, with 34 cases and 22 deaths
Callie Chang

Invisible Children - Invisible Children - 0 views

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invisible children

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    • Juhee Kim
      Juhee Kim on 05 Mar 10
       
      This has som information on what the LRA is and how it started.
    • Sally Lee
      Sally Lee on 09 Mar 10
       
      This aritcle has information about LRA and how the invisible children started/the war
    • Callie Chang
      Callie Chang on 05 Mar 10
       
      This site is useful for learning about the history about the war and the effects of it.
Juhee Kim

allAfrica.com: Uganda: Feingold Statement on the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Re... - 0 views

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    • Juhee Kim
      Juhee Kim on 05 Mar 10
       
      This website is good for getting information on what the LRA is and how they effect Ugandan people
  • the LRA and its brutal leader Joseph Kony
  • unanimously
  • ...23 more annotations...
  • unprecedented bipartisan consensus
  • consensus
  • abducting children
  • with little protection from their own government, where they were vulnerable to attacks, disease and starvation.
  • I visited those camps and saw first-hand the terrible conditions people were forced to endure.
  • to leave those camps
  • According to the United Nations, between September 2008 and June 2009, the LRA killed some 1300 civilians, abducted 1400 more, and displaced 300,000 others.
  • villages massacred as they gathered for church on Christmas Day.
  • atrocities committed by the LRA demand more attention, more resources and a more proactive strategy.
  • stipulate
  • authorization of funds
    • Juhee Kim
      Juhee Kim on 07 Mar 10
       
      ?: Cant they help the people of Uganda by collecting a little more tax?
    • Juhee Kim
      Juhee Kim on 07 Mar 10
       
      I: I infer that if every country or at least some countries did this then we can have enough money in no time.
  • But we need to not only acknowledge those regrets; we need to learn from them.
  • Rwanda
  • I am more than willing to work with lead cosponsors of this bill and others, during the appropriations process, to ensure this bill does not increase our overall budget.
  • Obama administration to develop such a strategy for how the United States will work more actively with regional governments,
  • mass killing of innocent life by the LRA is unacceptable
  • bipartisan
  • into displacement camps
  • not automatically trigger increased spending.
  • This time, let us not look back and wish we had done more.
  • children and our grandchildren to control reckless spending.
  • a modest of amount of additional funding, $40 million over 3 years
  • By passing this bill, we can charge our government with looking seriously at how we can do more to help bring these atrocities to an end
Mina Fukai

Letter to Friends and Family - 0 views

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    • Mina Fukai
      Mina Fukai on 09 Mar 10
       
      Its talk about a christian guy who travels to Africa and help the children there.
Mina Fukai

Saving the invisible children of Uganda - News - 0 views

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    • Mina Fukai
      Mina Fukai on 09 Mar 10
       
      This website talks about the background of the invisible children. "how we can save the children"
Callie Chang

Fredericksburg.com - Helping Uganda's 'Invisible Children' - 0 views

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invisible helping children news saving

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    • Callie Chang
      Callie Chang on 07 Mar 10
       
      In my opinion, this site isn't useful at all; it just repeats information.
Callie Chang

'Invisible' children at risk from unofficial fostering - Home News, UK - The Independent - 0 views

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invisible children news helping

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    • Callie Chang
      Callie Chang on 07 Mar 10
       
      This site isn't as useful as the main one I'm using, but it's still great for other details.
Janelle Gan

Zimbabwe: Water crisis and cholera funerals - Norwegian Council for Africa - 0 views

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zimbabwe water crisis

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    • Janelle Gan
      Janelle Gan on 07 Mar 10
       
      This article is good for: Explaining the overall issue with the water crisis around Zimbabwe -- Harare.
Mina Fukai

Invisible Children in Uganda - Invisible Children - 0 views

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    • Mina Fukai
      Mina Fukai on 05 Mar 10
       
      I think this website is helpful but I need to look at it more, and if I type Invisible Children in Uganda on Goggle then it takes me to this site
Erica Stenstroem

The Human Trafficking Project: Slavery and the Products We Buy - 0 views

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slavery and the products we buy

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    • Erica Stenstroem
      Erica Stenstroem on 05 Mar 10
       
      This page is going to help me when I need to know about African slavery. Also, it will help me when I need to know about what the African slaves make.
Jessica Jun

BBC NEWS | Africa | King Leopold's legacy of DR Congo violence - 0 views

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alal

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    • Jessica Jun
      Jessica Jun on 05 Mar 10
       
      I think this site is reliable becuase BBC is one of the most reliable sites you could find on the Internet.
Sam Kim

Confronting Central Africa's Poaching Crisis : NPR - 0 views

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    • Sam Kim
      Sam Kim on 05 Mar 10
       
      This site says that people are being killed. Poachers are shooting anything that moves including people.
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