February 2009 Newsletter
Successful Brazil Program Expanding in March
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Thanks to a new funding stream, the Healthy Children, Healthy Futures program in Brazil, already serving about 90,000 children in 400 schools, will expand into 12 new economically depressed towns in March, according to INMED Brazil Executive Director Joyce Capelli. Read More... |
Long-time Funding Partner Freddie Mac Foundation Continues Support for MotherNet Loudoun
The Freddie Mac Foundation has once again renewed its ongoing support of the INMED MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun program in Loudoun County, Va. with a $100,000 grant. Read More...
IAMusic Youth Development Program in Peru
| Youth at the Centro de Integración de Menores (CIMA), a center for abandoned youth in Lima, Peru, participate in INMED’s IAMusic program using music to build self-esteem and to learn from positive role models in places of safety. INMED is a partner with CIMA to reach vulnerable children through the program to promote messages of “I Am Important” or “I Am Creative,” using guitars donated by the Gibson Foundation. |  |
Nutrition taking root in Jamaica
INMED Lyrics for Life garden lab teaches children, families healthy lifestyles
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Nearly 1,600 children encouraged to adopt healthy lifestyles gained some added incentive last week when volunteers transformed a two-acre barren dust field into a multi-story garden and recreation site at the Iris Gelly Primary School. Read More... |
INMED Nutrition Program Overcomes Environment, Culture to Improve Children’s Health in South Africa
More than 10,000 school children in South Africa’s Orange Farm settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg have something they never had before – fresh produce for lunch from gardens at their own schools. Read More...
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About INMED Partnerships for Children
Since 1986, INMED Partnerships for Children (www.inmed.org), an international non-profit humanitarian development organization, has worked in more than 100 countries to fulfill a wide range of health, nutrition, education, violence prevention and community development projects that create a continuum of care for children from the prenatal period through adulthood by empowering families and communities to support the development of healthy, educated children for increased opportunities for the future.
For more information or to submit questions and comments, please contact Director of Development Mary-Lynne Lasco at contact@inmed.org.
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