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Please Help Doctors Without Borders Feed Children
Please click on the Starved for Attention link to sign a petition to support Doctors Without Borders/Medicines San Frontiers’ efforts to demand that governments supplying humanitarian food aid ensure that the food meets nutritional standards for infants and children.
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BOARD BOOK EDITIONS !
When I Miss You and When I Feel Scared are being published in board book editions in September, 2010. The 8 X 8 size and a shortened text make these two books especially appealing to little “readers.” You can order them online now from publisher Albert Whitman & Co., or get them at your favorite bookstore. (See “Books” on the right side of this page to link to ordering.)
Cornelia to Present at National Women’s Studies Conference Nov.11-14, 2010
The National Women’s Studies Conference (NWSA) http://www.nwsa.org will be held in Denver from November 11-14th, 2010. On Sunday, November 14th, from 8 to 9:15 a.m., in a panel session called Women’s Transformative Narratives, Cornelia will be talking about the importance of including women’s diary and letter-writing in women’s studies programs. The panel discussion will be moderated by Kerrita Kimberly Mayfield (Elmira College), and other panelists are Sarah Jane Sloane (Colorado State University), Carrie J. Walker (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), and Kathleen T. Leuschen.
Cornelia Visits Community Renewal Team in Hartford, CT to mark Child Abuse Prevention Month
In April, Cornelia traveled to Hartford, CT, to the Douglas Street Center of (CRT) Community Renewal Team, (http://www.crtct.org)to read her book Your Body Belongs to You to a number of classrooms of preschool children. CRT, a federally-desginated anti-poverty agency which helps people in Hartford and Middlesex Counties become successful and self-sufficient, was marking Child Abuse Prevention Month at all its early classroom centers, where dozens of volunteers were also reading the book to children. CRT enrolls more than 1400 preschool children in Head Start and Early Care and Education classrooms in the greater Hartford area, and also provides parent outrreach, nutrition programming, family case management, and health screenings.
CRT staff Kristen Pelletier, Ellen Welch, Cornelia, Bethanne Vergean, Paul Copes; Back Row, Norman Jones, Martha Ann Smith, Lena Rodriguez 