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Milwaukee clinics upping access with new grants

With nearly 16 percent of the U.S. population living without health insurance — or 45 million people — the lack of access to quality care is a problem that continues to grow. It’s one of the reasons why GE, as part of its healthymagination initiative, committed to a 3-year, $25 [...]

Sipping on sun-water at SOS Children’s Village in Haiti

As we recently reported, 10 of GE’s solar-powered water purification units were shipped to earthquake-stricken Haiti to help with the country’s desperate needs for clean water. Now, seven of the Sunspring units are up and running — with each able to provide safe water for up to 10,000 people per [...]

Solar-powered water purification units ship to Haiti

Of the $2.5 million that GE has targeted for earthquake relief in Haiti, $1 million will be used to help the next phase of the response effort — recovery. That stage is already underway with solar-powered water purification units now shipping to the devasted country, along with critically needed medical [...]

Healthcare in Africa: A closer look at Ghana

GE’s presence has been growing significantly in Africa in recent years — and part of that has been in the form of medical aid to communities in need. This week, a GE team made up of leaders in GE’s African American Forum traveled to Africa to meet with government officials [...]

Manufacturing in Massachusetts: Send in the Marines

With veterans being honored all over the world on November 11 — Veterans Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day and Armistice Day in other countries — we’re saluting GE employees this week who have served their country and now are putting the skills they honed in the military to [...]

From GE Global Research to Camp Liberty, Baghdad

With countries around the world honoring veterans this Wednesday — Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day and Armistice Day elsewhere — we’re taking a look this week at some of the GE employees who have served in the military and are now putting their leadership skills and uncompromising [...]

Making an impact: GE’s medical aid in Abeche, Chad

In our stories last week, we talked with our employee volunteers on the ground in Cambodia, where medical equipment donated by GE is now up and running in three hospitals. Today, we turn to Africa with Part 4 of our recent video series chronicling the work that International Medical Corps [...]