From the Wall Street Journal:

"A pioneer in children's health care, Zilda Arns Neumann created a sprawling
network of volunteers who monitor the health of millions of children in
Brazil and 20 other nations. She died in the Haiti earthquake while on a
mission to support local volunteers for the organization she founded,
Pastoral da Criança, or the Child's Pastoral. She was 75.

Dona Zilda, as she became known throughout Brazil, founded Pastoral da
Criança in 1983 in southern Brazil at the behest of her brother, Paulo
Evaristo Arns, who at the time was cardinal of São Paolo. The organization
has grown to include 260,000 volunteers, who teach mothers the importance of
breastfeeding, monitor vaccinations, and distribute a recipe for home-made
oral rehydration salts that Dr. Arns devised."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703822404575019190271077692.ht
ml?mod=googlenews_wsj#

And from Huffington Post:

The Children's Pastoral grew over the years into a charity effort that now
involves 260,000 trained volunteers who attend to 1.8 million children under
the age of 6. In areas reached by the program, the infant mortality rate is
half of what it is in the rest of Brazil. The Children's Pastoral has also
expanded to twenty countries outside of Brazil, including Haiti. The day
Neumann died, she had just finished giving a speech at a church in
Port-au-Prince. CNN quoted her nephew as saying "As people were leaving, she
stayed behind to speak with the pastor and was inside when the structure
collapsed."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-mcgowan/haiti-the-saintly-zilda-a_b_4289
01.html


Jodine Chase
http://www.google.ca/reader/shared/chase.jodinechase

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