27385: RE: 27384: Hermantin(News)Haitian-relief fund gets a boost (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

lhermantin@hotmail.com

Miami Herald


Posted on Mon, Jan. 30, 2006

TROPICAL NIGHTS
Haitian-relief fund gets a boost

By Daisy Olivera
dolivera@MiamiHerald.com

Former U.S. Ambassador Steven Green and his wife Dorothea opened the doors of 
their elegant home in La Gorce for a Project Medishare fundraiser. It was held 
to raise awareness about the healthcare crisis in Haiti and to raise funds for 
the work that Project Medishare is doing there.

The nonprofit was founded by Dr. Barth Green (no relation to the Greens) and 
Dr. Arthur Fournier from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The 
ambassador, his wife and daughter Kimberly have been partners with Project 
Medishare and advocates for Haiti for the past four years, doing so through 
their Green Family Foundation, of which Kimberly is president.

Through the foundation's health initiative, basic health care -- nutrition, 
vaccinations, pre-natal care -- is given to 60,000 individuals living in the 
central plateau in Haiti.

Dinner was served on the outdoor terrace where Maya Angelou was the highlight 
of the evening as she read some of her poetry. More than 100 guests were so 
mesmerized that despite drizzling rain, did not move from their seats until she 
finished.

Kimberly Green produced a documentary featuring Project Medishare and other 
nonprofits that save lives in Haiti, which was narrated by Angelou and her son 
Guy Johnson -- who also read his poetry that night. Guests received a copy of 
the film and signed copies of Angelou's book, Amazing Peace.

Supporters included writer and poet Stephanie Johnson (Guy's wife); Hank and 
Lisa Adorno; Sheldon Anderson, president of Northern Trust, and wife Florence; 
Yolanda Berkowitz; actor Matt Damon's wife, Lucy Damon; collector Marvin Ross 
Friedman; Maryse Kedar, president of YELE; Don and Katrina Peebles; fashion 
designer Ash Rana; Torbin Riise; Barry and Cheryl Schwartz; Ellen Powers, 
executive director Project Medishare; Gerald Moore.