VOA Creole provided much-needed medical information to their audience during a live radio call-in program on Jan. 27 broadcast from outside the ruins of the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. VOA broadcaster Jean Robert Philippe took questions from citizens talking with medical specialists in Florida.
Senator Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) praised VOA’s Creole Service in a statement in the Congressional Record, saying staffers provided Haitians with vital information aimed at helping them find "immediate shelter, medical assistance and aid."
More than 5,000 people attended a Town Hall on health issues in Jalingo, Nigeria. This Town Hall, along with another that attracted thousands of people, were organized by Ibrahim Ahmed of the VOA Hausa Service.
Two dozen journalists from across the Caribbean participated in a workshop on Pandemic Influenza and Disaster Reporting in Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 27-28. Organized by VOA Development’s Brian Armstead, the workshop included speakers from the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization.
Losang Gyatso, chief of VOA's Tibetan Service, introduced the documentary film Leaving Fear Behind at a showing at American University. The documentary was produced by Dhondup Wangchen, a filmmaker who has been detained by Chinese authorities since March 2008.
Michelle Harris represented VOA at the second annual Student Career Day at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School in Falls Church City. Nearly 500 students attended.
VOA’s Near East/Central Asia Division held a special lunch on Jan. 20 to raise money for the relief effort in Haiti. Donations were sent to the American Red Cross
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