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Enabling Local Vision, Effecting Global Change:
With Special Guests from Luke Society
Fourth Annual Wheaton College Symposium in Human Needs and Global Resources
Sponsored by John Deere
February 27-28, 2009
2009 Symposium Overview
Symposium Theme
This year's symposium, entitled: "Enabling Local Vision, Effecting Global Change," will focus on ways that fostering sustainable development at the local level facilitates a wider access to resources that reduce poverty and hunger. In particular, we will examine how initiatives in community health and development address disparities that both stem from and contribute to poverty. We will do this by highlighting one of our longstanding host partners, Luke Society, an organization that promotes and facilitates healthcare development in developing nations by coming alongside the vision of local practitioners, enabling them to create programs of whole-person wellness that place health back in the hands of the communities. Our plenary session, workshops, panels, and other events will cluster around the theme of holistic community health and its relationship to global hunger, poverty, and development.
A growing global consensus affirms that poverty, hunger, and health are inexorably linked, and to effectively address these challenges, an integrated approach is required.
Geographical, political, economic, and social factors keep poor and marginalized populations from accessing the healthcare they need to live well and productive lives. In turn, poor health is one of the most important contributing factors to ongoing poverty and hunger. The 1 billion people who lack access to healthcare overlap in large part with the 1.1 billion people who are poor, hungry, malnourished, and most vulnerable to life’s vicissitudes.
With a core mission to identify, support, and mobilize resources at the local level to meet community needs, Luke Society identifies and partners with men and women of vision, enabling them to develop and implement a vision for transformational development in their own communities. The organization today supports more than twenty projects throughout Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, effectively breaking through the barriers that keep much of the world’s poor from accessing healthcare. Moreover, Luke Society’s model of partnership stands out as an exemplary integration of resources, talents, and relationships that can be replicated to promote sustainable development in other sectors.
Distinguished Guests
We are pleased to announce that three Regional Coordinators for Luke Society - Dr. Apolos Landa of Peru, Dr. John Boateng of Ghana, and Dr. Pal Oroszi of Ukraine, will join us as distinguished guests for this year’s symposium. Through the plenary address and other events, these indigenous practitioners will discuss their engagement with issues of holistic health and community development, how this connects to the alleviation of poverty and how their model of partnership can be translated to other development endeavors.
For more information on the Symposium Guest Speakers, click on the link below:
Distinguished Guests
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