06-APR-A-5

 

POST-RWANDA PRESENTATION COMMENTS FROM PARTICIPANTS

 

 

I can't fathom not going to rwanda, so please put me on the list. I

don't want to risk that, so if I fit into Sudan - it is such a needy

area that would be great. If your trip this summer due to the short

notice needs someone let me know, it would take some doing but......

tim

 

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-----Original Message-----

From: Glenn Geelhoed [mailto:msdgwg@gwumc.edu]

Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:01 PM

To: Tim Harrison

Subject: RE:

 

Sure enough!  Where would you like?

 

I have too many conflicting requests for the same time slots now I will

have to triage!

 

GWG

 

>>> "Tim Harrison" <Tim.Harrison@bostonmedflight.org> 4/12/2006 6:51:45

PM >>>

Glen,

Thank you for the update. As I've said before I will go anywhere with

you that you will have me. July would take some work, but..... where?

I'd like you to consider me for the Sudan and of course Rwanda '07.

Can

we design our own med packs?

Take care, and keep me in consideration.

Tim

 

Tim Harrison

 

Dr. Geelhoed,

 

Thank you so much for sending the presentation, really nicely done. I

thought I had worked out being able to come down, but with the date

change (very understandable) it just won't work. Please, please give my

best to everyone, I feel very attached to them despite only knowing each

other for 2 weeks. I hope to be able to accompany you again soon, you

are a special teacher and a really wonderful person, please let me know

of anything that you feel I might be helpful with. I definitely caught

"it" under your tutelege in rwanda.

 

take care,

 

tim

 

 

Dear Doc G,

  I am sorry that I had to run out so quickly at the end of the

presentation. I had to get to the hospital auditorium for my surgery

quiz. I agree with Amy and think the presentation went fantastically. 

It was wonderful to see everyone and share our memories.  I had such an

amazing time while on this trip, and I am planning on taking some

serious time during the week of my spring break to reflect and write

more about our adventures.   There were so many life changing moments,

both big and small, that made this trip more than just one of life's

great adventures.  I for one would love to speak to any interested

parties and potential donors about our trip and being a student on a

medical mission.

    The Louise Mushikiwa presentation sounds amazing.  I'm going to add

her book to my list of international reading.  I'm sure it was a very

meaningful presentation to both you and Julie.  I for one cannot wait

for our next mission.  Please let me know if there is anything I can do

help you out with.  I hope to see you soon.  Have a great day.

 

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reflected.

Shining against

a background of river mud.

Bathed by the waters

rushing out to sea.

 

(c)2004 Leah Berkowitz

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Glenn Geelhoed <msdgwg@gwumc.edu>

Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:38 pm

Subject: Re:

To: agf04@gwu.edu

Cc: metnick@alumni.gwu.edu, katkell400@aol.com,

Michael.A.Tadle@aphis.usda.gov, Tim.Harrison@bostonmedflight.org,

Susan.fellows3@comcast.net, jtoplon@drew.edu, jwhitis@gmail.com,

jwhitis@gwu.edu, lberk@gwu.edu, nikitank@gwu.edu, nsekhon@gwu.edu,

belovedbellhaynes7@msn.com, Stephen.Katz@pilotonline.com,

hsimmons@psaltd.com, sdellinger@psaltd.com, dds@radix.net,

croskery@storm.simpson.edu, efeegel@tampabay.rr.com, jupakab@yahoo.fr

 

> Thanks to you and all of you who were really champs!

>

> I went directly from the presentation to the Woodrow Wilson Center's

> special program on Louise Mushikiwa" presentation on her new book

> "Rwanda Means the Universe."  I met with Howard Wolpe ,  Director

> of the

> Africa Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Centers for

> Scholars,and also Saad Noor from Somaliland, also hoping for a

> mission to the

> next available time slot back to Somaliland in the Horn of Africa,

> now,as much of the Eastern Continent. suffering in a severe

> drought and

> famine--yet again.

>

> Louise speaks of her experience over ten years in writing this

> book as

> daughter of a Hutu farmer and Tutsi Aristocrat who escaped the

> Holocaustof the 1994 genocide (with inflammatory unofficial Radio

> Rwandabroadcasting on the official government frequency--"We know

> of one

> (named here) little cockroach who thinks she is too far away in DC

> to be

> caught and killed") as almost no other one of her family did,

> except for

> her sister, six foot two inch Anne Marie Kantengwa, whom I also met.

>

>  Anne Marie has two reasons for our interest in the next planned

> excursion to Rwanda, she is the Honorable Deputy member of the

> House of

> Parliament Chambre des Deputes.  She also is the owner and manager of

> the Hotel Chambord near the airport that we passed and would like to

> host our next mission.  I am trying to organize this return trip for

> July of 2007, when General Jerome had also asked us to include his

> homevillage in the mountains along Uganda, near the home of the

> MountainGorilla we will see after the mission.

>

> Julie Whitis and her Mom attended this session as well and we both got

> the books from Louise autographed.

>

> I am working now also on getting the Sudan return trip to the

> banks of

> the Blue Nile in Old Fangak, Sudan for very late February to cover the

> March Spring vacations in the first two weeks of March.  A number of

> medical supplies have been gathered to include some surgical component

> parts for the next missions, so prepare to plunge into "the deep

> end of

> the pool!"

>

> There may be a summer mission in early July if I can organize it by

> that short time frame, and I will be returning to Eritrea for only the

> first week of October, beginning in late September.  Thanks to Amy's

> "Books Without Borders" we will have a large PFP container load filled

> with books, journals and computers for Eritrea's new medical

> school, and

> a number of items too big to carry as luggage will be going along for

> our future medical missions like several wheelchairs and lots of

> crutches--all of it being received on the Eritrean end by our

> delegation.

>

> For those who might be available, the PFP Gala will be the weekend of

> May 13 in Norfolk for which you have already received an invitation.

>

> You were all terrific both in performing in Rwanda and reporting here

> on site, with several other requests for your presentation skills

> I said

> I would try to facilitate from potential donors and interested

> audiences.

>

> You can pack along with me in further excursions into the developing

> world any time!

>

> Cheers!

>

> GWG

>

 

 

> >>> Amy Fiedler <agf04@gwu.edu> 4/12/2006 3:04:44 PM >>>

> Dr. Geelhoed-

>

> I thought the presentation went fantastically!  Thank you yet

> again for

>

> such an amazing experience.  Rwanda was absolutley incredible, and

> I

> can't wait for another adventure.

>

> Tina Wu, the Global HIV/AIDS Fellow really enjoyed the

> presentation. 

> Part of our Global Health Scholars program is to invite key

> speakers to

>

> our bi-monthly conference calls.  I am going to suggest you as one

> of

> our speakers (if that is OK with you) the next time we have a call.

>

> Amy

> 

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