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Exhibitors 2012
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"Large-Scale Museum-type SPECIAL EXHIBITS
Don't miss a unique opportunity to see a touring exhibit only in Atlanta for a short time....
in the Woodruff Health Sciences Administration Building (WHSCAB upstairs Plaza)
1. From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit
Organized by the Soka Gakkai International, a worldwide lay Buddhist association that promotes peace, culture and education through personal change and social contribution. The SGI, as a non-governmental organization accredited by the United Nations, shares the mission of promoting international peace and security.
2. African American Theatre: Past, Present, and the Future
A timeline of African American theatre from 1821 to the Present” and is organized by TheatreSouth Atlanta.
3. Butterfly Peace Path (outside of WHSCAB)
Meditative labyrinth to help facilitate people’s journeys to greater awareness, choice and embodied peace.
Regular Exhibits 2012 (School of Medicine & WHSCAB atrium)
| EXHIBIT TITLE | DESCRIPTION | |
| A.D. King Foundation | Non-violent principles, methods, and direct actions as the preferred means of resolving conflict resolution throughout the world | |
| Africa's Children's Fund | Assisting with children's education in Africa and the USA. | |
| Africa Heritage Foundation | Africa World Museum, and declaration of unity between Africa nations, USA, and the Diaspora. | |
| Aggregating Outliers | An innovative approach to connecting remarkable patients with medical researchers and physicians | |
| A HealthCARING America | Seeking content reviewers of “HealthCARING, WellBEING: As Many, Together”—a GH Summit collaborative 2012 Legacy eBook | |
| AIM Project | Hand made crafts from the people with HIV and AIDS | |
| Alex Jr.Cancer Foundation | Raising awareness and financial support in the community for children's cancer research | |
| Americans for Healthcare | A successful social media campaign to propel a grassroots movement promoting universal healthcare | |
| American Friends Service Committee | Working for peace and social justice | |
| America's Born 2 Lead Network | Training and empowering young adults to make internal changes that will lead to better external choices | |
| Ancient Wisdom Rising | Promoting the wisdom of elders representing acient tribal and cultural traditions | |
| Anderson, Clyde | Creating a plan to prosper | |
| Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests | Advocating for equal rights within the church | |
| Atlanta Cares | Recruiting mentors for children throughout Metro Atlanta..."Mentor a Child and Save a Life" | |
| Birge, Jack | Murder Without Death - chilling true accounts of a physician uncovering the devestating corruption in the legal and healthcare system in Carrollton, GA | |
| Black Men & Boys | A 2025 campaign to better our communities | |
| Born Again Words | Motivation, education, and inspiration: Encouraging people from all walks of life to be their best | |
| Bountiful Bags | Providing students in need at Indian Creek Elementary School with basic necessities; meals supplies, clothing, etc | |
| Boys2Men Home & Sanctury for Youth, Inc | Empowering young males by teaching positive and productive life skills | |
| Brown, Johnny II | Promoting nurturing fatherhood and healthy family relationships | |
| Bruno Groening Circle of Friends | Healing on the spiritual path, and how to tune in morning and evening to the (medically verifiable) Healing Stream that's available to all | |
| Butterfly Peace Path | Meditative labyrinth to help facilitate people’s journeys to greater awareness, choice and embodied peace | |
| Cameroon Deaf Empowerment Organization | Art works by deaf Artists from Cameroon, Africa | |
| Canto Cidadao | The clown in the hospital environment as a tool to stimulate citizenship | |
| CDC Community Relations | Working internally & externally to build trusting relationships between CDC and the community | |
| Centers for Medicare & Medicaid | Affordable Care Act (ACA) - Information about the new health care law | |
| Change Rocks Foundation | Empowering some of the world’s most vulnerable children through global initiatives that use music to foster education, sustainable development, and AIDS prevention | |
| Chapman, LaKisha | "Mommy Let Me Live": personal testimony, education, and inspiration to help women be more knowledgeable when making decisions about abortion | |
| Clemson Engineers for Developing Countries | Public health work in the central plateau of Haiti | |
| Community Muse | Facilitating creativity, healthy living & integrity in community | |
| Congolese Genocide Awareness Inc | Raising awareness of the atrocities being commited to men, women, and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | |
| Couragous Fathers | Fatherhood and Healthy Relationship Classes | |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation | Raises money for IBD research and patient support/education programming | |
| Demonstration for Universal Healthcare (DUH) | A movement to rally folks for an event on the National Mall in October to promote health coverage and healthcare justice for all | |
| Dept of Peace Campaign | Advocating for the creation of a United States Dept. of Peace…the proposed legislation, what it would do, and why it is needed | |
| Destiny of America & the Oneness of Humanity | Cobb Immigrant Alliance, Uniting-America.org, and United for Change Coalition | |
| Doctors at War | Engaging the healthcare community in the global war against human trafficking | |
| EDGES: Emory Dermatology Global Endeavors for Service | A new group at Emory University School of Medicine comprised of faculty, residents and medical students that facilitates learning through service at the local, national and international levels | |
| Ehler's Danlos Network CARES | Awareness campaign for the rare connective tissue disease EDS | |
| Embraced Atlanta | Mobilizing unused orthopedic and assistive mobility devices like wheelchairs, walkers, and crutches into the hands and lives of people without and who need it most | |
| Emory SAMS (Students Against Modern-Day Slavery) | Emory SAMS' human rights exhibition | |
| Emory UNICEF | Emory UNICEF advocates for childrens' rights | |
| Empower the Youth | A cultural arts radio program syndicated on WIGO 1570-AM in Atlanta | |
| Community outreach re. a health improving Chi-Gong exercise known as Falun Gong, and the Falun Gong persecution in China. | |
| Friends of the Congo | Congolese human rights and grassroots institutions working together to bring about peaceful and lasting change in the Democratic Republic of Congo | |
| Fuel Efficient Stoves | Training township and rural residents in South Africa on building Fuel Efficient Stoves made of mud and straw | |
| AME - Service & Development Agency (SADA) / TCG | Stop the killer in the kitchen! Efficient mud and straw stoves for use in Africa | |
| Gandhi Foundation of USA | Spreading the philosophies of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, promoting peace, non violence, and community service | |
| Gangarosa, Raymond | A grassroots movement to make harmful industries accountable for their negative social impact | |
| Georgia Caribbean American Heritage Coalition | Celebrating and preserving Caribbean culture | |
| Georgians Against Smoking Pollution (GASP) | Education about smoking and tobacco hazards | |
| Global Initiative for the Advancement of Nutritional Therapy (GIANT) | GIANT promotes low cost, comprehensive, culturally appropriate and sustainable approaches to addressing nutritional needs. | |
| Global Paint for Charity | Recovers left-over paint from businesses and residences, reprocesses it, and distributes it to developing countries for housing rehabilitation projects including hospitals, schools, churches, and prisons around the world | |
| Global Village School | A school for refugee teen girls whose lives and education have been brutally interrupted by war or civil conflict | |
| Good Samaritan Health Center | Sliding scale medical, dental, & mental health services for uninsured, low income families in Atlanta | |
| Grooming Leaders | Supporting youth and young adults from single parent family homes, orphans, and foster homes | |
| Haitian American Nurses Association | Providing education, screening, and affordable healthcare services to the community | |
| Haiti Summer Service Project 2012 | Educating American volunteers about present circumstances in Haiti | |
| Harris, Alan | How Atlanta, Georgia and the U.S. are failing to address mental illness and substance abuse among homeless people | |
Haven Seekers | Reducing poverty among young adults in Ghana | |
| Healthcare For All | Information on HR 676: Region 1A Retired Workers Chapter | |
| Healthcare Now | Single payer literature | |
| HealthSTAT | Health Students Taking Action Together, Inc.-- A student-run non-profit uniting professional students throughout the state and across disciplines in service, education, and advocacy to promote a healthier Georgia | |
| Heart Health | American Heart Association, Go Red For Women, and Mended Hearts | |
| HumanWrighting Project | An innovative Emory student project to catalyze a global movement to STOP the massive raping and killing of women in the Congo | |
| Humarian Society | Promoting "Living Beyond Race"…caring for others simply because they're human | |
| Hustle University | Promoting personal and professional leadership through the development of entrepreneurship, critical thinking, communication, life skills, and the teachings of proven success strategies. | |
| Innovative Ways to Help Underserved Communities | Insights from a first year medical student travels in Central America | |
| International Sound Therapy Association | Promoting the awareness of sound therapy modalities used for a noninvasive approach to energy medicine | |
| Invisible Children Front Line Campaign: Kony 2012 | Advocating to stop the abduction of African children for girl sex slaves and boy soldiers | |
| Jaksally-Ghana | Community development in Ghana; enhancing the potential of women and youth | |
| Joe Beasley Foundation | Teaching grassroots skills to enhance economic development | |
| Kenya Maasai Community | Girl's education | |
| Kingsway Charities | Suppling medicine and medical supplies free of charge to medical teams doing volunteer work in developing countries | |
| Laughter for Wellness | Promoting laughter for wellness | |
| Life Centers LLC (Our Transformation Challenge) | Fighting chronic illness thru diet and exercise | |
| Living Healthy, Happy, & Green | Sustainable advocacy and Promoting In-Season Nutrition for Children | |
| MD Junior | An innovative mentoring program to encourage selfless service among middle and high school students who are aspiring to medical / health careers by pairing them with medical and health professionals who help in underserved communities | |
| Medical Missions / Jeremiah Grantham | Medical mission insights | |
| MedShare | Recovery and redistribution of surplus medical supplies and equipment to underserved healthcare facilities in developing countries | |
| Mission of Hope | Mobilizing health care to indigent population in rural Jamaica | |
| Mission Possible International | Recruiting and training for short-term missions to Haiti and Africa | |
| Mobile Clinic, Ghana | A mobile clinic developed by a Clark-Atlanta chemistry professor to deliver health services to rural areas in Ghana | |
| Moringa Olilefera | NIH plant of the year 2008 | |
| Mothering Across Continents | Providing seed funding and management assistance to help start-up organizations achieve breakthrough results in projects relating to education, nutrition, health, joy, and peace to the underserved in developing countries | |
| Mutambara Village Ministry | Improving the lives of children and their families in the village of Mutambara, Zimbabwe | |
| Myles, Willie | The Mass Destruction of Black Families-Getting the Picture | |
| My New Life Foundation, Inc. | A program designed to help individuals rebuild their life after its been destroyed by substance abuse. | |
| NFL Players Association (NFLPA) | Improving quality of life in developing countries and underserved populations via sports, health, medicine, education, and business development | |
| Partners For Care | Improving public health in Kenya through medical missions / community health initiatives | |
| Peace Corps | Federal government agency devoted to world peace and friendship, created in 1961 by John F Kennedy | |
| Physicians Care Clinic | Primary care services for uninsured DeKalb County residents | |
| Pranic Healing Meditation | Working to reduce pain and suffering in the world through healing practice and teaching others to heal themselves | |
| Priests For Life | Life in the 21st Century, perspectives from the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| Project World Health | Two separate exhibits: A) An International Medical Mission taking a Focus on Sustainability B) Improving the Efficiency of the Medical Mission Trip by Collaborating with Industrial Engineering | |
| Raising South Sudan | A unique collaboration of former Lost Boys of Sudan to engage communities in the United States, from businesses to schools, to support building schools and developing access to clean water in remote locations in South Sudan where other NGOs are not providing services | |
| Readers Beyond Borders | Innovative Solutions to Challenges in African Educational Development | |
| Refugee Resettlement & Immigration Services of Atlanta (RRISA) | Rebuilding the lives of displaced and uprooted people so that refugee families will become stable, financially independent, and productive members of the community, while preserving the ethnic and cultural identity that supports their dignity and self-esteem | |
| Refugee Resettlement (Ethiopia) | Assisting the youth amongst the Ethiopian refugee population in the USA | |
| Rwanda Diabetes Association | Improving the health of diabetics in Rwanda through advocacy, education, etc. | |
| Sanctuary Island, Inc | Serving wounded warriors, the disabled, and children facing adversity | |
| Sangpo, Lodoe (Buddhist monk) | Promoting an awareness of Tibetan issues | |
| SelfCare | The 5 Pillars of Health | |
| Selfless For Africa | Improving the lives of underprivileged youth in Africa...providing scholarships and encouraging acts of selflessness | |
| Share International | Educating the public about the need for sharing the world resources (food, housing, health care, & education) as the only way to true and lasting peace and justice | |
| Silver Lining Villages | Providing housing and coordinating services for the veteran/civilian population with a focus on substance abuse recovery, sustainable housing, alternative healing, nutritional, and life skills training | |
| Smith, Brandon | Music concerning the importance of global awareness, promoting missions, and giving back | |
| Soka Gakkai International | 2 exhibits: A) Worldwide United Nations accredited Buddhist network which promotes peace, culture and education through personal transformation and social contribution B)" Transforming the Human Spirit: From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace" touring exhibit | |
| STAND | A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, Lakeside High School Chapter | |
| Stethoscope Repair Service / Medical Mission Pack Rental | Learn tricks of the trade from full time Medical Missionary with 20 years experience in EMS/Clinical Care/Medical Supply Logistics | |
| SYFA-USA | Supporting grassroots environmentalism in rural Africa | |
| Teaching Surgery to the Common People | Creating a surgery public health book | |
| TheatreSouth Atlanta | "African American Theatre: Past, Present, & Future" - A timeline from 1821 to the Present | |
| Tree Widow (Alison Mills Newman) | Actor / Producer / Minister helping with positive reinforcement for innercity youth and the homeless | |
| University for Development Studies (Ghana) | Blending the academic world with that of the community to promote constructive development in the country | |
| Visions Anew Institute | Relationship support for individuals contemplating or in the midst of the divorce process | |
| WaterForLife: Nigeria | A unique clean water program for Nigeria | |
| WellBeing Foundation | Organizing for building a well for the people of Esupetai, Kenya where there has been a record drought. | |
| Wig Capital | Hair loss support group | |
| Williams, Sherry B. | Author of When Cancer Calls, 4-Time Cancer Survivor, Consultant, Healthcare and early detection advocate | |
| Women's Federation for World Peace | A global women's effort focused on bringing peace to the world / efforts span from United Nations forums to international conferences, fundraisers, and service projects. | |
| Written Languages & Literacy | Creating universally accessible computer fonts for indigenous languages in order to keep tribal cultures alive and to promote literacy amongst these peoples | |
| Youth Development & Capacity Building, Inc. | Innovative efforts to advance our youth worldwide through education and capacity building | |
| Zion Keepers | Helping homeless and mentally ill veterans in Atlanta |
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