Little lives matter
March 5, 2021
It s been approximately six months since Cannon Hinnant was gun downed in Wilson, North Carolina. The five-year-old boy, innocent as a lamb, was shot in the head at point-blank range by Darius Sessoms. Cannon was on his bike in Sessoms front yard at the time. The boy was taken to Wilson Medical Center, where he died of his injuries. No motive for the shooting was given.
The outrage at such senseless killing of innocent life became an international story, but something that never made the news is what happened afterward. This murderous act, incomprehensible in its moral gravity and with its many witnesses as to who did it, had its defenders.
Emory University’s School of Nursing is sharing in a $4.5 million grant as part of a multinational consortium working to reduce infant mortality in Ethiopia.
Saving Little Lives at Birth (SLL) has also been named the flagship program of the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, an endorsement highlighting the importance of maternal-infant health to Ethiopia’s well-being.
The consortium taking part in the SLL program includes UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Emory, as well was as Addis Ababa, Mekelle and Hawassa universities, all in Ethiopia. They are sharing in the grant from the Global Financing Facility.
SLL builds on the work launched by the Emory-Ethiopia partnership, which has been transforming patient care and nursing education in Ethiopia for more than 11 years. The partnership’s infant mortality initiative is led by Abebe Gebremariam, MD, in-country director of the Emory-Ethiopia Program, and John Cranmer, DNP, MPH, MSN, assistant clinical professo
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St Boniface And Donar’s Oak
Christmas is characterized by a fir tree overloaded with decorations, glittering colored balls, iridescent strings of silver or gold tinsel simulating an improbable snowfall. Where did the idea of cheering up the Christmas season with a fir tree, under which to place gifts for loved ones, spring from? Against the backdrop of eighth-century Germany, in the district of Geismar, a monk and missionary born in Britain, called Winfrid, was engrossed in preaching the Nativity to a tribe of Germanic pagans. The monk - later to become St Boniface - tried to convince the pagans that the oak tree dedicated to Donar or Thor was not at all sacred and inviolable, and to prove his point, he took an axe and cut one down. The poor tree was felled and crushed all vegetation in its path as it came crashing down, except for a small fir tree, that remained ‘the last man standing’.