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Happy Summer!
While we have been busy building projects in Nepal, we have also been going strong in Mongolia! We recently won an award from the World Health Organization (WHO) for our hepatitis screening work and took part in an inter-sector conference about financing hepatitis eradication in Mongolia.
We are looking for volunteers to travel to Nepal or help out in downtown Flagstaff. We have one of a kind Kazakh wall hangings for sale and our outdoor clothing is now on eBay.
As always, thank you for helping us keep our mission in motion! Read below for more information and ways to help.
All the best,
Meredith Potts
Executive Director
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World Health Organization
Award
In April 2016, FIRE was honored to be selected as one of five o
rganizations to be recognized by the
WHO (World Health Organization) and EASL (European Association for Study of the Liver) for innovative hepatitis screening
programs.
FIRE's project will be included in the first edition of WHO's "Hepatitis Screening Guidelines." Meredith Potts also presented this project at EASL's annual International Liver Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
To date, we have screened 3,500 rural Mongolians through this program. A short video from our 2015 project in Khovsgol province is below.
For more information about the award, please visit the WHO website.
To learn more about the International Liver Congress, please visit the EASL website.
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Rotary Global Grant
Our award wining screening project has been turned into a Global Grant initiated by the
Rotary Club of Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia),
District 3450 and the
Flagstaff Rotary Club
(Arizona, USA),
District 5510
called, "
Hepatitis Free Mongolia
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Through the spirit of fellowship and service above self, Rotary is in the unique position to be able to eliminate viral hepatitis in Mongolia just as it has done with
Polio across the world.
If you are a Rotarian, please consider supporting this Global Grant. If you are not a Rotarian, please help spread the word to Rotarians you know.
For more information including a full description of the project, brochure, video, photos and more... please visit FIRE's
Rotary webpage. The image below also links to the Grant brochure.
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Mongolian Finance Discussion
In May 2016, FIRE joined the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) and the World Health Organization (WHO)
and many government Ministries and agencies in Mongolia for a discussion about innovative financing ideas for elimination of viral hepatitis.
This was the first discussion of its kind anywhere in the world. It was a terrific step in making Mongolia the first country to be hepatitis free.
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SHOP in support of Nepal!!
Tuesday - Saturday
10am - 4pm
Or by appointment.
113 E. Birch, Flagstaff, AZ
928-779-2288
Or visit our eBay store here.
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We need your help!
Help us sell the outdoor gear in Flagstaff or to rebuild Lantang, Nepal.
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Donate Today!
Please consider supporting FIRE. We rely on individual donations for more than 20% of our income.
Your support makes all the difference in what we can do.
You can donate directly on-line
here. Checks may also be mailed to PO Box 22187 / Flagstaff, AZ / 86002.
Thank you very much for your continued support.
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Kazakh Wall Hangings
We have 9 hand-made wall hangings from the Kazakh region of western Mongolia. These are beautiful, one of a kind pieces of art. They are lovingly made over several months and given as a gift in honor of a marriage, birth of other special occasion.
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