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By Dan D’Ambrosio
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Business owners ignore at
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said about them online —
good or bad — say the coauthors of “Content Rules,”
a new book about how to
create an effective Web
presence.
The authors and book
will be the subject of a social
media lunch at noon June 2
at the Hilton Burlington.
The event is part of the ongoing Social Media Breakfast club series, commonly
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sponsored by the Lake
Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, Digalicious, PMG, the Burlington
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“Let’s face it, there are
people out there talking
about everybody online,”
said C.C. Chapman, a social
media and community building consultant based in Boston. “The biggest thing that
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Ann Hadley, chief content
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their book. Hadley is also
based in the Boston area.
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August Burns, executive director at Grounds for Health in Waterbury, works with coffee-growing communities
in Latin America and Tanzania to establish sustainable cervical cancer prevention programs.
Grounds’ war against cancer
Prominent Vt. buinesses help
Waterbury nonprofit launch battle
for women’s health around world
By Dan D’Ambrosio
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Free Press Staff Writer
“It’s a function of funding. If we had the
funding it would allow us to have a much
broader geographical impact. We’re at
a tipping point of really being able
to have an impact on this major global killer.”
n 1995, Burlington coffee consultant Dan Cox headed for Mexico
on a coffee buying trip. Dr. Francis Fote, an obstetrician in Buffalo, N.Y., who had delivered Cox
and many other members of his family, asked if he could tag along. Cox
had become like his adopted son.
“He was bored in retirement,” Cox
said in an interview last week. “I said
‘Fine you can come, but I can’t babysit you.’ ”
In a small town in southern Mexico called Pochutla, Fote wandered
into the local hospital and introduced himself, striking up a conversation with the doctors on staff.
“What he learns is this hospital in
this little town looks great from the
outside, but when he goes inside the
place is so understaffed and underperforming he can’t believe it,” Cox
said. “There’s no full-time gynecologist on staff, and they’re not doing
any preventative treatment for cervical cancer, which is the number one
cause of death for women in Mexico.”
After his visit to the hospital in
Pochutla, Fote buttonholed Cox and
told him about what he had learned.
“He says, ‘Hey partner, this is
crazy. We got to do something,’ ”
Cox said.
Crazy because cervical cancer is
one of the most preventable and
treatable of the forms of cancer. In
the United States, there were 4,210
deaths from cervical cancer in 2010,
according to the American Cancer
Society, Inc. Compare that with the
39,840 deaths from breast cancer,
Jane Sakovitz Dale, development director, Grounds for Health
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The team at Grounds for Health in Waterbury. The nonprofit works with
nine coffee co-ops in Mexico, Nicaragua and Tanzania in an effort to
have women screened for cervical cancer.
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or 71,080 deaths from lung
cancer, among women in
2010, according to the cancer society.
We’ve been
pioneering this
new approach
and it works
really well.”
At first, Cox was at a loss.
What did Fote expect him to
do? But then things fell together, thanks to a man Cox
remembers only as Paco, a
member of a local coffee cooperative called Aztec Harvest.
Such as health care. Paco
told Cox and Fote that if
they would do the screening
for cervical cancer, he
would arrange for the publicity and transportation.
“I asked him how he was
going to arrange for transportation,” Cox said. “He
said, ‘Simple, we’re going to
use the coffee trucks.’ ”
For two years beginning
in 1996, Cox and Fote funded
and ran the cervical cancer
screening clinic themselves.
Then Cox went to Ben &
Jerry’s, which gave him a
$5,000 grant. Cox knew the
company well because he
sold them coffee extract for
their ice cream. Next,
Fletcher Allen Health Care
offered volunteers to assist
with the Pap smears. Green
Mountain Coffee Roasters
came on board as a funder,
joining Ben & Jerry’s and
Coffee Enterprises, Cox’s
business.
But by 2000, Cox hit the
August Burns,
executive director (left)
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wall. He had a business to
run, and the clinic was cutting into that more than he
could afford. Cox talked to
his partners at Green Mountain and Ben & Jerry’s.
“I said, ‘Listen guys, I
can’t do this any more and I
can’t have my staff do it any
more; it’s taking away from
the revenue portion of my
operation,’ ” Cox recalled.
“We decided to form a
board, become a nonprofit
and hire an executive director.”
That nonprofit is Waterbury-based Grounds for
Health, where the executive
director is August Burns, a
physician’s assistant and
midwife, who has been
working in women’s health
care since 1977, and working
internationally since 1986.
Burns spotted a classified ad
for the position in 2004 after
the first executive director
left.
“I was at a cafe with a
friend. I said, ‘Oh there’s my
job,’ literally, and put the ad
in my pocket,” Burns said. “I
had the job the next week.”
Fifteen years after Cox
and Fote launched their
clinic in Pochutla, Grounds
for Health has directly
screened 20,000 women for
cervical cancer and has
trained more than 250
nurses and doctors in the
techniques required. The
nonprofit is now working
with nine coffee co-ops in
Mexico, Nicaragua and Tanzania, the African nation
having the dubious distinction of the highest rate of
cervical cancer in the world,
Burns said.
Grounds for Health is
working with Jane Goodall
and the Jane Goodall Institute in western Tanzania,
where coffee farmers were
clear-cutting the forests that
provided habitat for the
chimpanzees Goodall has
worked with and protected
for 45 years. Grounds for
Health development director Jane Sakovitz Dale said
coffee cooperatives in many
more countries, including
Peru, Colombia, El Salvador,
Rwanda and Ethiopia, have
reached out to the nonprofit,
asking it to bring its program to their members.
“We just don’t have the
resources at this point to
meet the demand,” Dale
said. “It’s a function of funding. If we had the funding it
would allow us to have a
much broader geographical
impact. We’re at a tipping
point of really being able to
have an impact on this major
global killer.”
The techniques Grounds
for Health uses to deal with
precancer in the women it
screens changed dramatically seven years ago, Burns
said, when the organization
went away from the traditional model of taking a Pap
smear and analyzing it before taking any action.
“We have women who
come eight hours on foot to
get a screening,” she said.
“We can’t ask them to come
back in a couple of weeks to
check the results, then send
them someplace else for
treatment. You just lose all
of them. You terrify them
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dressed in Tanzania, all coffee farmers, telling them
about the risk to their loved
ones and the importance of
those women being
screened “because often
times it is the men who decide if she can go or not.”
“Not the next day, but the
following day, a woman and
her husband, the brother of a
man at the meeting who told
him he should take his wife,
walked all day to our site,
and stayed overnight,” Burns
said. “She was seen first
thing in the morning. She
was positive, received treatment and they turned
around and walked down the
road away from us, and it
was like, ‘This is worth
doing.’ ”
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“When you join a co-op,
your number one member
benefit is you should be able
to sell product to clients you
might not otherwise be able
to get,” Cox said. “But
they’re always looking to recruit co-op members so
they’re always looking for
more benefits.”
also. We’ve been pioneering
this new approach, and it
works really well.”
The new technique is
called a single visit approach, and is what it
sounds like. Women are examined and treated in a single visit. Even better, the
procedure is low-tech, and
low-cost, just 23 cents per
visit, according to numbers
verified by the Boston University School of Public
Health. Burns is well aware
that Grounds for Health’s
low-tech approach would
not be accepted in the developed world, where high-tech
is king, but she is satisfied
that it is highly effective, and
that it has the potential to
end cervical cancer’s reign
as the leading killer of
women in the world.
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