Foundation urges volunteers of all ages to host lemonade stands and raise awareness for childhood cancer

WYNNEWOOD, PA – In commemoration of a decade of “standing” for hope, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) is issuing a call to action for volunteers across the country to join the battle against childhood cancer this June. 2010 marks 10 years since cancer patient Alexandra “Alex” Scott held her very first front yard lemonade stand to help doctors find a cure, and while progress has been made, cures and better treatments still need to be found.
alexslemonade.org

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BANGALORE: Some 200 poor children with deformed limbs have come to Bangalore in the hope of learning to walk, skip and jump like their friends. Making them realize their dream will be 30 top surgeons from India, UK and USA who will conduct 30 surgeries a day. All this free of cost.

The Sparsh Hospital at the health city came alive on Monday when doctors began their week-long operations. The foreign specialists had flown down at their own cost bringing with them their medical equipment. Some of the complex challenging musculoskeletal abnormalities that will be tackled are: congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia, club foot, cerebral palsy, congenital dislocation of hips and gross deformity correction.
indiatimes.com

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 150,000 people lost their homes after heavy floods on 1 September 2009. UNV volunteers are providing humanitarian aid to some of the most vulnerable flood victims.

Four newborn babies sleep quietly in the arms of their mothers just behind the school, Kobri Nabmanejeuma, one of 88 sites in Ouagadougou where floods victims are receiving urgent humanitarian assistance. The youngest, a baby girl, is just 12 hours old and of course unaware about the unfortunate circumstances under which she was born.

“My baby is fine for the moment, but I do not have enough clothes for her and I doubt that the food I get will be enough to allow me to breast feed her,” says her mother Salamata Nikiema who, like tens of thousands of other people, saw her house collapse under the rain two weeks ago.
unv.org

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