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GAA is very grateful to each and every one
of its friends and donors.
We thank you once again for your generous
gifts and kind encouragement.
Your support, such as Howard Royer's, from
the Church of the Brethren and the Global
Food Crisis Fund, is greatly appreciated.
Here is an excerpt from the lovely letter
he sent with his donation.
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"Congratulations on the gains GAA has helped bring
about in protecting older citizens in various
countries. We're especially glad to learn of the
support being garnered in Latin America. We wish you
well as you prepare for the UN Working Group session
next August.
I regret that we haven't found occasion to meet face
to face, but I am grateful that GFCF has had at
least a toe-hold in the work and vision of GAA.
Thanks for the always warm and illuminating
communiques through the years."
Howard Royer
Global Food Crisis Fund
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TOP NEWS STORIES
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Nowhere
to Go, Patients Linger in Hospitals, at a High
Cost (January 2, 2012)
Under New York State law, public
hospitals are not allowed to discharge patients to
shelters or to the street. Coupled with the lack
of housing and health insurance, illegal
immigrants are often trapped in city hospitals
deprived of services that could be provided
elsewhere at a lower cost, for example, in nursing
homes. This scenario is also common in municipal
hospitals in states with large concentrations of
illegal immigrants such as California and Texas.
This recent debates over national health care
legislation ignored the situation of “illegal”
immigrants.
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Canada: The "Grandparent
Scam" on the Rise (December 30, 2011)
(Article in French)
The elderly, who
are considered to be easy and naive preys, are
more and more the victims of scammers. The
technique of the "grandparent scam," a term used
by the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, is to call an
old person pretending to be one of his
grandchildren and to claim to have pressing
financial problems. The scammer then asks the
senior to transfer a large amount of money as soon
as possible; the elder often obliges out of
fear or panic. Since June, the CAFC received about
20 complaints about this method, but is concerned
that there is actually much more due to ashamed
victims who do not speak out.
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