Our friend recommends this Arsenic Crisis Newsletter & Discussion. He said of it, "… this site has a boatload of contributions, I think some of them may actually be good research. FYI in case you want to scan the overall chatter about the As problem. Regards, David"
The formal group description is: "Newsletter & discussion of the arsenic crisis in W Bengal India and Bangladesh, and related situations. This group merges the subscriber lists of the arsenic-crisis-news, arsenic-source, arsenic-medical, and arsenic-safewater groups."
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
From Belgium via US to Cameroon
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| Denis (right) with teachers in computer room. |
Chemists Without
Borders president Bego Gerber believes that “The Power is in the Network”.
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case in point: In January this year he sent me a quick e-mail telling me about
Marijke De Vos from Belgium. She had participated in Chemists Without Borders
bi-monthly call-ins and had mentioned that she raises money for a school project
in Cameroon. Fast forward: In June I met her collaborator Denis Mudi Tanto in Bamenda/Cameroon. He took
me to his village of Binshua (Nkambe) Donga Mantung Division Cameroon via an eight hour drive
towards the Nigerian border. Denis arranged for me to pay a visit to SAMACCOLSchool Campus. Denis envisions collaborating with AIDSfreeAFRICA to establish a
teaching chemistry laboratory.
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| 500 children received worm medicine and vitamin A |
A campaign
organized in time for my arrival provided micronutrients for over 500 children.
I had an opportunity to pass on a donation of Worm medicine and vitamin A from
Vitamin Angels/US to the St. Patrick Catholic Health Centre in Binshua. The
continuity of this new program is ensured by connecting the Binshua health
centers staff with AIDSfreeAFRICA country representative, Mr. Polycarp Nji fromEsu/Cameroon.
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| Marijke (left) and me (right) saying bye at train station |
By July I had an
opportunity to meet Marijke in Belgium. We proudly showed off our traditional Cameroonian
dresses while Marijke’s husband prepared a delicious dinner for the entire extended family, who came to meet me.
The future will tell what we can cook up together for the benefit of Binshua's school children.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Cadmium contaminated rice
As some of you may have heard last month, Cadmium was found to have contaminated rice in China. There was an interesting article about it in the Bloomberg News:
Human pollution is believed to be the cause. This has understandably caused public outrage and spurred a nationwide project to determine the level of 78 elements in top soil and deeper soil levels. Bloomberg also mentions that according to a Xinhua report, China's land ministry previously stated that testing had found abnormally high levels of cadmium, mercury, lead and arsenic in parts of the mid-and lower-tributaries of the Yangtze River.
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