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Maryland Chapter in the Community! The Maryland Chapter of the ACFE has joined the international campaign to assist Haiti As part of the Chapter's commitment to help the community, we have contributed $1,000 to Doctors without Borders to assist in their efforts to help the people of Haiti.
Every year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides emergency medical care to millions of people caught in crises in nearly 60 countries around the world. MSF provides assistance when catastrophic events — such as armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, or natural disasters — overwhelm local health systems. MSF also assists people who face discrimination or neglect from their local health systems or when populations are otherwise excluded from health care. On any given day, close to 27,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professionals can be found providing medical care in international teams made up of local MSF aid workers and their colleagues from around the world. In 2006, MSF medical teams gave more than 9 million outpatient consultations; hospitalized almost half a million patients; delivered 99,000 babies; treated 1.8 million people for malaria; treated 150,000 malnourished children; provided 100,000 people living with HIV/AIDS with antiretroviral therapy; vaccinated 1.8 million people against meningitis; and conducted 64,000 surgeries.
For more information on Doctors without Borders work in Haiti and across the globe or to help contribute to their incredible work, visit their website at www.doctorswithoutborders.org
The Maryland Chapter of the ACFE is proud to have contributed $500 to the Bea Gaddy Family Center.
Pictured is Mr. Webb and Donna, Bea Gaddy's daughter who was most appreciative of our help
In addition to the "Thanksgiving" event, the Bea Gaddy Family Center provides assistance for heating and rent needs for individuals and families. In these financial times many people, young or old from so many different backgrounds are finding themselves in need.
Bea Gaddy, who rose from a life of poverty to become Baltimore's leading advocate for the homeless and poor, died (October 3, 2001) at age 68. Gaddy, who served an annual Thanksgiving feast for the homeless for more than 20 years, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was being treated for breast cancer, said Tony White, a spokesman for Mayor Martin O'Malley. Gaddy, who was elected to the City Council in 1999, also operated a family center that has served more than 1 million homeless women and children, according to her Web site. She learned about domestic violence and poverty firsthand during her childhood in North Carolina. She said her father often threw her and her brother out of the house, and that her mother lived in constant fear of being beaten. After working as a housekeeper in Brooklyn, N.Y., for $50 a week, she came to Baltimore in 1964 as a single mother with few hopes or dreams. But a man she met while working as a school crossing guard encouraged her to go to college, and in the early '70s, she joined the East Baltimore Children's Fund. Her home became a distribution point for food and clothing for the poor. She used the experience to found a homeless shelter, which eventually became the Bea Gaddy Family Centers Inc. Gaddy held her first Thanksgiving dinner in 1981, feeding 39 people. The event grew each year and peaked in 1993, when Gaddy and about 2,000 volunteers served 20,000 people. The event became smaller after Gaddy was elected to the Council in 1999 as a Democrat representing East Baltimore. Last year, she served about 3,000 in a middle school cafeteria. In 1998, Gaddy was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent chemotherapy treatments and the disease went into remission, but it came back in 2001. Gaddy had said her children would take over her organization if she were unable to run the family center. |
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