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Good For Our World

My Faith in Humanity…Restored

July 11, 2009 Good For Our World

Sometimes life is tenuous, isn’t it?
One moment, you’re soaring along effortlessly at 25 miles an hour on your bike, breathing in the fragrant eucalyptus and picturing the faces of the people you will help by doing Ironman in two weeks.
The next, you are flying over your bike, with your handlebars sheared clean off — effectively [...]

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Inspired in Africa: Making a difference in lives of women by empowering them

July 10, 2009 Good For Our World

LET’S FACE it. Sometimes life can feel fairly mundane. As we move from one moment to the next, much of our focus is on dealing with the seemingly insignificant minutiae. Then, we get a wake-up call of sorts. Something happens that forces an epiphany: Those few, precious moments in life when we gain a [...]

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Million Dollar Ironman: $1 Million to CARE and a Will of Iron

June 16, 2009 Good For Our World

“The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that we are easing into era of hope: hope for better lives for ourselves, our children — and our world.
I believe [...]

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CARE Million-Dollar Ironman

May 15, 2009 Good For Our World

[Eric on the 112-mile bike leg at the Ironman Brazil in Florionapolis.]
AS MANY OF YOUR NOW KNOW, I am training to break the 9-hour barrier at the Hawaii Ironman -– to honor, and to raise funds, for marginalized women and girls around the world through the work of CARE.
A friend recently sent me a video [...]

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A Child Dies in Africa Every 10 Seconds From Malaria

April 24, 2009 Good For Our World

I just read this statistic and it left me reeling.
Malaria is a preventable disease. It’s breathtaking to me that there are children out there dying from such an easily-preventable ailment.
Truly, this sad statistic makes a mockery of the notion that we value all life equally. If an American child died every week from malaria, [...]

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Taking Part, Taking a Stand and Taking Action in Washington

November 2, 2008 Good For Our World

My four-year-old daughter is a lobbyist. A bonafide Washington lobbyist. And, I could not be prouder of her.
In her first visit to “the hill,” Vivienne joined over 400 people from 39 states in Washington, D.C. for the national conference of CARE — a leading global humanitarian organization — to discuss poverty, hunger and the [...]

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CARE PRESS RELEASE: Sweating a way to a better world

June 11, 2008 Good For Our World

Work out on the Mall in solidarity with marginalized women and girls. Every hour you exercise, Eric Harr will donate $5 to CARE
Contacts: Rick Perera, 404-457-4649 / rperera@care.org or Allen Clinton, CARE, 404-457-4635 / clinton@care.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 11, 2008) – Professional triathlete and fitness author Eric Harr says getting in [...]

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