Julian Hancock -- Webmaster
I am a semi-retired journalist who has come into contact with a number of orphans from various African countries. These people have contacted me in a variety of ways – through Christian websites, referral, or just stumbling upon one of the other websites which I publish. I can say that as a result of these encounters part of my heart now lives in Africa.
Over the past year (2006) I have gradually learnt about the sub-human conditions in which some of these orphans have to live, and the general degradation of the quality of life in all Third World countries.
This is a work of love for me and if just one individual in the whole world is moved by what they have learnt at this website, I will consider my efforts – and those of the various contributors – to have been justly rewarded.
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Dr Jim Choron
Dr. J(ames). Lee Choron is a journalist and writer living in Mamontovka, a suburb of Moscow, Russia. He has resided in the Russian Federation for over nineteen years, and is a former senior executive with the Eastman Kodak Company. Prior to joining Eastman Kodak in 1987 and moving to Russia, Dr. Choron was a professional member of the United States Military.
James Choron was born in Dallas, Texas, in December 1953, and raised in the small East Texas town of Center, where his parents still reside. He is a graduate of Center High School, and Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches Texas as well as a graduate of Moscow State University. Dr. Choron has been a working journalist for just over thirty-seven years, and has columns appearing in numerous publications in both Russia and the United States.
He has numerous hobbies, primarily related to humanitarian, social and ecological causes and historical research, in which he has been involved for many years. He has published a number of independent articles in such prestigious journals as Texas Escapes Magazine, Texas Highways, Military Magazine, Phenomenon Magazine and Fate Magazine, the Moscow Times, Moscow Tribune and Kommersant Magazine. He is a staff member on several on-line publications and forums dealing with history, humanitarian subjects and political issues.
Dr. Choron is a noted and vocal advocate of cancer and AIDS research, children’s rights and the plight of orphans around the world. He has seen each of these issues “up close and personal” by residing in over 20 different nations on 4 continents.
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Gus Nossal
Professor Sir Gustav Nossal has for some years been Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Bill and Melinda Gates’ program to immunise millions of children in poor countries. His specialty is immunology and before retiring he was for 30 years Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne.
He is Professor Emeritus of Pathology at the University of Melbourne. Gus -- as he prefers to be called -- is an internationally renowned leader in the field of immunology.
The diseases for which inoculation is available under the Gates program are: diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, meningitis and yellow fever. The program targets the 74 poorest countries in the world -- all those with a per capita income of less than $US 1,000 per year.
Gus' comment to me: "Dear Julian. Congratulations on getting a website going to help third world orphans. I shall be delighted to make a small contribution."
For a detailed account of Sir Gus's achievements, CLICK HERE
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John Whitehead
John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead’s concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
The Rutherford Institute provides free legal services to people whose constitutional and human rights have been threatened or violated. The Rutherford Institute has emerged as one of the nation's leading advocates of civil liberties and human rights, litigating in the courts and educating the public on a wide spectrum of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States and around the world. The Institute’s mission is twofold: to provide legal services in the defense of religious and civil liberties and to educate the public on important issues affecting their constitutional freedoms.
Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson. In addition to writing a weekly commentary that is posted on The Rutherford Institute’s website, as well as being distributed to several hundred newspapers, John hosts a national public service radio campaign. Whitehead's aggressive, pioneering approach to civil liberties issues has earned him numerous accolades, including the Hungarian Medal of Freedom. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available HERE
Statement by JOHN WHITEHEAD, President and Founder of the RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE:
The acclaimed French writer Albert Camus once said: “Perhaps we cannot prevent this from being a world in which children suffer. But we can reduce the number of suffering children. And if you will not help us, who will?” I could not agree more. That is why the work of Third World Orphans is so vital. We all need to help—now. Tomorrow may be too late.
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