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Clean Lakes Festival
The Clean Lakes Festibal will takes place on Saturday, July 25, 2015. The intent of the Festival is three-fold: to raise public awareness about opportunities for recreation on the lakes, highlight the importance of lakes to local quality of life, and offer non-lake users the opportunities to engage in lake recreation. Visit Law Park, on…
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CUGH Webinar: “The Global Surgery Deficit”
Approximately 5 billion out of 7 billion people in the world have no or little access to basic surgical care. Out of the roughly 250 million operations performed each year, only 3.5% are performed on the poorest 1/3 of the world’s population. Injuries alone cause 5.7 million deaths yearly, much more than the 3.8 million…
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Watch Dr. Frantz Large’s discussion on eye health care in Haiti and around the world.
Watch Dr. Frantz Large’s discussion on eye health care in Haiti and around the world.
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Global health ethic echoes calls from Aldo Leopold, Pope Francis to care for people and the planet
Global health ethic echoes calls from Aldo Leopold, Pope Francis to care for people and the planet.
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Voices of Hope: Listening and Supporting Survivors of Human Trafficking
The 4W Initiative (For Women, For Well-Being, For Wisconsin and the World) presents Voices of Hope: Listening and Supporting Survivors of Human Trafficking. The event will feature three different speakers. Keynote speaker, Shamere McKenzie, tells the inspiring store of a woman who survived sex trafficking in the United States. Shamere has become an activist and…