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My Meeting with the Nobel laureate Yunus in Bangladesh
by Pietro Sodani
Dhaka, 9th August, 14,50, waiting for Prof Yunus.
We set off from our hotel about an hour and a half in advance of our meeting, crazy...... one might think. No, it was absolutely the right choice. Dhaka is not easy to cross, from several different points of view.
Dhaka does not seem like a city, but it is comparable to an sea of people living spilled out into the street. Men, women, children, babies who are moving along these roads breathlessly, imploringly, as if the streets were the only form of sustenance, as if from the street, these people get all that is necessary for life.
Meeting Nobel laureate Professor Yunus to cure thalassemia in Bangladesh
by Lawrence Faulkner
I’d read about Muhammad Yunus well before the Nobel in 2006, and always wondered how it was possible to come up with a concept of something like micro-credit, lending money to the poorest of the poor, without asking for any kind of guarantee or capital. Madness. Yet it has had great success. People such as him are compelling. I’d never have immagined being able to meet him.
Thanks to Eugenio’s vision, on the 8th August 2009 we set off for
Our meeting with the Noble Prize Yunus in Bangladesh to setup a Social Business to cure Thalassemia
by Eugenio La Mesa
I just came back from an amazing trip to
We were able to meet twice with Nobel Laureate Prof. Yunus at the head office of Grameen Bank in
The story all started with an email I sent in June 2009 to Prof. Yunus (I didn’t know him), saying that I had read his book “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, that I agreed with his idea of a social business even if I had no idea of how to go about it, and I asked him if we could do something to cure Thalassemia in Bangladesh with Bone Marrow Transplantation, like we are currently doing in Pakistan and are starting to do in India.
He replied to me the following day saying that he was very interested (I still remember when I read that email, I just couldn’t believe it!) and, after having exchanged several emails, we setup a meeting in
My journey in Kosovo
by Veronica Brandinu
It was proposed to me by Professor Riccardi, the Director of our Department, to take a couple of days leave and head for Pristina in Kosovo, and to go to the city hospital and get to know and help the nurses in the pediatric onco-hematology department.
I accepted with great enthusiasm, and having already had an experience abroad I know that these opportunities are enriching both professionally and personally.
On our first day, before going to hospital I had the pleasure to meet Leonora, the mother of a young patient treated in Italy in my department, who in the local association has several responsibilities, one of which is cultural mediator between us and the staff. A woman with great patience, during our few days stay in Pristina, she was dedicated to us, even in her free time taking us around the city.
No time to stop now
by Pietro Sodani
Let’s begin with a quote: “There are moments in which silence is guilty and speaking is a duty, a civil obligation, a moral imperative”, from “The rage and the pride” by Oriana Fallaci. Yes, it’s true.
Rage. When you see six children with leukemia in a room, lying in a bed, hopeless, and you know that those children have no chance to be cured and survive, rage is the only possible emotion.
Project Pakistan: a personal journey
by Daniele Ciofi
I've had a dream of a health cooperation project for years, as opposed to surgery or emergency medicine, paediatric oncology, the field in which I have most of my professional experience, rarely offers the opportunity to fulfil this dream.
This year I've been lucky, Cure2Children (C2C) asked for my help. The Foundation was born in Florence, created by the haemato-oncologist Lawrence Faulkner together with some parents who unfortunately lost their children to the disease. This project is designed to share knowledge about bone marrow transplantation with developing countries that need it, where there is a need for funding and/or professional support. The main project of C2C is currently in Pakistan.
The trip to Pakistan to help Cure2Children
by Eugenio La Mesa
I just came back from my 2 day trip to Pakistan and some of my friends asked me to write about it. I've been to Islamabad to see the amazing wonderful things that the Italian foundation Cure2Children (founded just 2 years ago by parents who lost their kids and by the visionary physician Lawrence Faulkner) is doing there.
To make a long story short, Cure2Children gets in Italy money from donors, and spends it in developing countries (so far Pakistan and Kosovo) to cure kids with cancer that is curable, but they don't have locally the money and/or the medical know how to cure it.
In Islamabad they are curing kids with Thalassemia through bone marrow transplant (trapianto di midollo osseo); in the public hospital PIMS (http://www.pims.gov.pk/) Cure2Children has just:
My Pakistan
by Antonio Frecentese
In these few lines, Dr. Lawrence Faulkner asked me to write, I tried to give a small insight to convey the emotions that very rarely we are able to live and which are possible only in very particular journey’s.
In June last year, Dr. Lawrence Faulkner, whom I met years ago through mutual friends called me to outline his idea to spend part of the inheritance from an uncle pediatrician (his mentor) to start a Foundation, C2C, whose main purpose would be the support and care of children with cancer and blood diseases in developing countries. He asked if I could give him a hand to prepare the official paperwork for the first constitution of the Foundation. I accepted straight away, even if, I must say that at first I was not so clear on what the project actually was that Lawrence had in mind, I was immediately involved.
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