Portraits of Commitment: 2007 Clinton Global Initiative. The screening benefit was held on November 3, 2007, at the Broad Street, Ballroom in New York City with over 150 guests. The program featured documentary shorts, which included global health in Benin, poverty alleviation in New Orleans, and human trafficking in Thailand. The multi-media exhibit and the evening's speakers exposed the viewers to some of the practical and measurable ways in which organizations are successfully tackling the problems facing the world today, and inspired their financial support.

Fundraising event at the home of Dr. Shahnaz Quraishi and Dr. Hamid Quraishi.  Dr. Bruce Charash, the founder of Doc to Dock, made a presentation to Maryland, Virginia, and DC physicians regarding Doc to Dock’s work and its latest shipment of medical equipment to Benin.  The guests included Cyrille S. Oguin, Ambassador from the Republic of Benin to the United States.   The intimate event raised over $23,000, which covers the cost of shipping approximately $400,000 worth of medical supplies to a country in Africa.

Multi-media exhibit featuring SOW’s documentation of CGI commitments in Ethiopia, India, Israel, and Mexico. The event was attended by over 150 guests and representatives of the CGI participant organizations. Video clips and poster-sized photographs depicted stories of struggle and progress: a newly constructed health clinic, Palestinian and Israeli children playing basketball, a group of women receiving microfinance loans, a boy drinking from a fountain of clean water.

A program with an itemized list of contribution opportunities allowed event guests to make direct and specific contributions to SOW and the CGI participant organizations.

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