2001 Africare Bishop Walker Dinner

23 October 2001
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Africare (Washington, DC)
press release

Washington, DC — At the 2001 Africare Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner, Tuesday evening, November 6, at the Hilton Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C., Africare will host what is now the largest annual event for Africa in the United States.

This year's event will pay tribute to the Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, MD -- President and Founding Dean of Morehouse School of Medicine, and Secretary of Health and Human Services for four years under the previous Bush Administration -- for outstanding contributions to health care, medical education and workplace diversity in the United States, throughout Africa and worldwide. Dr. Sullivan will receive Africare's 2001 Bishop Walker Humanitarian Award. Leading the tribute will be the Honorable Andrew Young, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., former Mayor of Atlanta and now Chairman of GoodWorks International, LLC. Delivering the evening's keynote address will be Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.

The 2001 Africare Bishop Walker Dinner is dedicated to the victims of HIV/AIDS in Africa -- those who have died of AIDS, those now living with AIDS, children orphaned by AIDS, and communities and nations collapsing under the weight of coping with AIDS -- and to the hope that this tragic disease can be overcome both Africa-wide and throughout the world. AIDS is now the leading killer in Africa. Through the 2001 Dinner, Africare seeks to broaden American awareness of and responsiveness to this unparalleled tragedy. Africare's HIV/AIDS prevention, care and orphan-assistance programs now reach needy communities in 17 countries Africa-wide.

Other 2001 Dinner principals are U.N. Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan, as Honorary Patron; as National Patron, the Honorable James A. Harmon, Chairman of J.A. Harmon Associates LLC and former Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; and as General Chairs, Marion M. Dawson Carr, President of Dearfield Associates, and Stephen D. Cashin, Managing Director of Modern Africa Fund Managers LLP. Maria Walker serves annually as the Honorary Chair.

The Africare Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner was first held in 1990, one year after the death of Bishop Walker: the first African-American Episcopal Bishop of Washington and Chairman of the Board of Africare for 15 years. More than 2,500 people -- political figures, corporate leaders and groups and individuals who care about Africa -- attend the Dinner each year. Proceeds benefit the humanitarian work of Africare, with programs now spanning 27 nations Africa-wide.

Please call : 202-328-5364 for more information. To make a reservation online, please visit http://www.africare.org.

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