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Noted on TV - John Edwards’ Trip to Uganda with the IRC

Posted by Wynne Boelt on November 16th, 2007

IRC president George Rupp (left) and John Edwards on an IRC delegation visit to Uganda in 2006.
Photo: Melissa Winkler/The IRC
At an event called ‘Politics and Eggs Breakfast’ held in Bedford, New Hampshire on November 7, and broadcast on C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House,” former U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards spoke about the IRC.  “About a year ago, roughly, I went to Africa to do work with the International Rescue Committee, which is this extraordinary non-profit that basically goes to the most difficult places in the world where there are huge crises occurring,” Edwards said.

Edwards described what he saw while on a delegation trip with the IRC to Uganda in October, 2006. “Absent the International Rescue Committee and groups like that, there would be no help for these people.”

It looks like C-SPAN may rebroadcast the segment at 6:30 PM ET on Sunday — but check the C-SPAN site for the latest.
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