Operational Update: Over Past Week, $5 Million in Insulin for Syria, 25-Ton Charter for Nepal Covid Response and More
Direct Relief also provided India with $17 million worth of donated Covid-19 therapies from Eli Lilly, which cleared customs this week and will be used by hospitals treating Covid-19 patients.
A pharmacist with Syria Relief and Development stocks shelves during medical response efforts. Direct Relief supported the group with $5.5 million worth of donated insulin products over the past week. (SRD photo)
Over the past seven days, Direct Relief has delivered 311 shipments of requested medical aid to 44 U.S. states and territories and 14 countries worldwide.
By Bill Walczak, Reporter Columnist
May 13, 2021
Bill Walczak, Reporter Columnist
One of my rediscovered pleasures following vaccination is going into bookstores. A few weeks ago, I picked up Patrick Radden Keefe’s book “Say Nothing,” which is about “the Troubles,” the longtime conflict that turned violent in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s and lasted about 30 years. Keefe, who was raised in the Ashmont section of Dorchester, is a writer for The New Yorker magazine, and has published four interesting, award-winning books. He is an excellent writer, whose portrayal of “the Troubles” brought back many memories of my involvement with the Irish peace process, which stretched from 1999 to 2008, mostly through the Boston College Irish Institute and partly via a similar program out of Columbia University.
By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff
May 6, 2021
Dorchester resident Kafi Dixon is one of the subjects featured in A Reckoning in Boston.
“A Reckoning in Boston,” a new documentary film that focuses on two Dorchester residents enrolled in a night course at Codman Square Health Center, will make its debut at the Independent Film Festival of Boston today (Thurs., May 6).
Director James Rutenbeck initially expected to make a film about the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free educational experience offered in Codman Square for adults facing economic hardship and adverse circumstances. But over the course of filming for five years, Rutenbeck decided to bring two participants in the course, Kafi Dixon and Carl Chandler, aboard as producers/subjects in the film.
Police Violence Leads to High Anxiety for Black Americans
By Cara Murez
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, May 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) A new survey confirms what many young Black Americans already know: They are vulnerable to anxiety disorders, particularly during contact with the police or in anticipation of police contact. I think it s important, given what s going on in society, said survey author Robert Motley, Race and Opportunity Lab Manager at Washington University in St. Louis. And I think it helps us to get a better understanding because a lot of this research on police violence and mental health outcomes have really only started burgeoning since the Mike Brown incident, Motley said, referencing the shooting of a Black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.