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Treating personality disorders can be extremely frustrating for clinicians. As a result, many doctors get caught in a cycle of diagnosing and rediagnosing in an attempt to find an approach that works. In Personality Disorders Over Time: Precursors, Course, and Outcome, Joel Paris, M.D., proposes a better approach-one based on management rather than cure-that he developed while following a group of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) for over 25 years.
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As a teacher of personality disorders to medical students, I will incorporate many of the book's carefully considered, collected, and documented information about phenomenology and epidemiology.
Introduction. Time and illness. Precursors of personality disorders. Borderline pathology of childhood. Personality disorders in adulthood. Long-term outcome of personality disorders. Patients with borderline personality disorder after 27 years. Mechanisms of recovery. Course, prevention, and management. Suicide and borderline personality disorder. Working with traits. Epilogue: a program for future research. References. Index.
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By Meg Carter, ChildFund Sponsorship Communication Specialist
Are you a smoker? Maybe you've quit, or have you never taken a puff? Perhaps, like many of us, you fall somewhere in between.
I have a lifetime count of less than 100 cigarettes, but I'm not protected: One in ten tobacco-related deaths involves a never-smoker. And of those deaths, one in four is a child — because there is no safe level of second-hand smoke.
Tomorrow, May 31, is World No Tobacco Day, a time to contemplate these grim facts and consider what we can do to make a difference.
In my early 20s, working in Saint-Louis, Senegal, I occasionally smoked, even though I hated cigarettes. Smoke filled that sleepy town's only nightclub, and on Saturday nights, my Gauloises burnt down to my fingertips. Smoking was my cover charge for entertainment.
Several years ago, when I lived in Guinea, I watched children buy single cigarettes at the same shacks where they purchased food: hard-boiled eggs, bread cut to order, powdered milk packets, tea leaves by the gram, hard candy by the piece, tomato paste by the tablespoonful and Maggi stock cubes. Errand boys ran groceries for Mom and cigarettes for Dad, making shopping a gateway activity.
Nearly half of the world's children regularly breathe second-hand smoke in public places, and two in five have at least one smoking parent. Among Cambodian, Thai, Senegalese, Filipino and Vietnamese, three in five children live in smoking homes, while in Belarus, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, it's four in five. Southeast Asians suffer disproportionately from second-hand smoke.
By age 15, many boys in developing countries have become smokers, but years can pass before their health deteriorates. Tobacco smoke contains 4,000 chemicals, including 50 carcinogens and another 200 lesser toxins. In Timor-Leste, fully half of all boys between ages 13 and 15 smoke. Among Belarusians, it's one in three. But boys aren't the only ones at risk; substantially more Brazilian girls than boys smoke.
Mothers who smoke often deliver babies prematurely or with lower birth weights, and exposure to second-hand smoke causes one in four sudden infant deaths.
Globally, tobacco consumption is on the rise, and so are its opportunity costs. Tobacco's direct costs to Thailand could fund the country's energy services. In Mexico, treatment of tobacco-related illness accounts for one in 10 health care dollars.
According to the World Health Organization, tobacco kills up to half its users. Every six seconds, tobacco takes a life. Every minute of every day, two die in high-income nations, and eight more die in developing countries.
ChildFund works in the world's second, third and fourth largest tobacco-producing countries: Brazil, India and the United States. Indonesia also ranks in the top ten and, during the past decade, Mozambique, Zambia and Cambodia have experienced the greatest increases in tobacco production. In low-income countries, tobacco contributes to deforestation and supplants food crops. And it's inefficient; agricultural land yields up to 15 times tobacco's weight in edibles, which contributes to high rates of malnutrition.
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By Martin Nañawa, ChildFund Philippines
In the weeks after Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the central Philippines last Nov. 8, Martin Nañawa, a communications staff member in our Philippines office, reported on the children, youth and adults struggling in its aftermath. Six months after the storm, he reports on their recovery. This is his second dispatch; read his first here.
Taclobanons all knew fear on Nov. 8. That day, Christine, a teacher, survived being trapped in her two-story apartment. For several hours, she was caught with water below and water above. The storm surge flooded her home at street level, forcing her upstairs, where she endured harsh rain and strong winds after her apartment's roof had been peeled away by the strongest winds she'd ever seen. Christine had to duck and cover in the stairwell, where she could also keep an eye on the churning tumult below.
Her fears would not end there, however. When the storm passed, all sorts of news — true and false — traveled fast among survivors. Some said the mayor was dead; others claimed rebels had descended on the city; still others said inmates were released so they wouldn't drown in prison.
Power lines were down everywhere, so no one had any way of knowing what was true and what was not. Christine lived alone, and she feared for her safety. She first stayed with her aunt before evacuating to the neighboring island of Cebu, where the city's urban comforts sharply contrasted with the desperation and scarcity in Tacloban.
Thirteen-year-old Kristine also feared for her life. As the floodwaters of Haiyan's storm surge poured into her house, she and her mother, her 18-year-old brother and 14-year-old sister climbed over stacked furniture to keep from drowning. Her brother opened a panel in the ceiling, and he helped them all up. In the ceiling, they each lay prone over a wooden beam as roiling rapids filled Kristine's living room.
After the storm, they surveyed the damage to their home. The walls still stood, but the garage had collapsed, crushing their car.
Kristine and her family, like Christine, heard rumors about violence and roving bands of looters. Her father is a police officer, but he was stationed three hours away, and she hadn't heard anything from him since Leyte Island lost power. Fearing for their safety, the family crawled back into the ceiling so intruders would not find them.
In the pitch-black night, all sorts of unearthly sounds haunted them and fed their fears of danger, both real and imagined.
Loud thuds and creaking at her home's perimeter gate pulled Kristine out of her thoughts. She held her breath as she listened again, hoping it was just her imagination. There it was again. It sounded like someone was trying to push their gate open. Kristine heard her mother calling to her brother to stay put, but it was too late — he had climbed down from the ceiling to investigate.
He soon reappeared, wearing a grin across his face. Their father was home.
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After the storm, the Philippines' Department of Education announced that schools would reopen Dec. 2. Christine returned from Cebu — only to find her apartment had been ransacked. Many things were stolen, and the rest were damaged by the flood. Christine also found that belongings she had stored at Sto. Nino Elementary School had been stolen, along with various other items of school property.
Christine was beside herself. She had become a public school teacher to help people be better and because she loved children, and now she'd been robbed of even belongings she'd never deemed valuable. People seemed to just take things because they could. She couldn't believe her misfortune.
Nonetheless, she had to come to work. But how would she teach? Teachers and students had lost their books and notebooks, and many children no longer had uniforms and shoes. Everyone still bore the shock of Haiyan, and nobody was in the mood, let alone prepared, to resume school.
Kristine also returned to school Dec. 2, but her heart wasn't in it. Few of her peers were in attendance. It seemed to be too soon for everyone, especially those coping with far worse circumstances than her family. Kristine's classmates sat and stared, and they wept for friends they'd lost in the storm.
At the same time, hundreds of evacuees crowded into Sto. Nino School, and both Kristine and Christine found ChildFund staff members among all the new faces. They were organizing a Child-Centered Space there, a place for children to recover from all the intense emotions caused by the typhoon.
Despite all of her trials and tribulations, Christine signed up as a volunteer. "I'm a teacher. I've been a teacher 27 years," she declared. "I teach because I love children, and help is what they really need right now." ChildFund staff members trained her and other volunteers to use curriculum developed specifically for emergencies. Instantly, Christine felt she'd made the right decision.
"I conducted CCS sessions at school through December, right until everyone took a break for the holidays. Then in January, we shifted to holding CCS on weekends, to make time for the school curriculum on weekdays," Christine says. "It gave me so much joy seeing the children's demeanor improve, hearing them laugh, play and sing again, witnessing children learn to be children again, despite all that's happened."
For her part, Kristine was happy that CCS activities filled the gap before regular classes resumed. "We couldn't really hold class in the weeks after the typhoon," she says. "But CCS helped us get over the intense memory of fear. When school really resumed in January, we were ready."
ChildFund also helped Kristine and her classmates get ready to resume school by replacing lost school supplies. "It feels like such a small thing," Kristine says, "but I was delighted to actually own something new after losing so many things to the storm." It would be a while before simple things like pens and pencils could be purchased locally in Tacloban.
Looking back
It's now been half a year since Haiyan tore through Tacloban and other towns. Christine remains a ChildFund volunteer, and her local knowledge is invaluable to ChildFund's staff members.
Sometimes she brings Kristine with her to ChildFund activities. During summer break, Kristine is learning outdoors skills through scouting.
"Haiyan's hardship almost curled me into a closed fist," Christine says, "but ChildFund reminded me to remain an open palm, sharing my blessings with others."
Interview by Sagita Adesywi, ChildFund Indonesia
Yeyen, a 27-year-old mother of two who lives in Kapuk, West Jakarta, Indonesia, describes the effect an Early Childhood Development (ECD) center supported by ChildFund and Fronterra, a global dairy company based in New Zealand, has had on her family's life.
"When my first son, Habibie, was only 3 years old, I forced him to read and write. I really wanted him to be ready to go to school. I wanted him to write the letters perfectly, but he wrote them like random drawings. He often cried when I asked him to write properly. It was really difficult. It frustrated me that sometimes I lost my patience and raised my voice, saying that he was a naughty boy.
"It was not that I was being mean to my own child, it was just that I really wanted him to be able to read and write so he could be the smart one in school. I really wasn't aware that what I was doing to my son is not a good age-appropriate practice. I just didn't know any better. 'Thankfully, not so long after, when we walked by an ECD center in our neighborhood, we saw children learning and playing together. Seeing that, Habibie told me he wanted to play and learn there too. I was surprised because I didn't even ask him to! I was so happy that I took him to Mentari ECD center right away.
"In less than a year, my son could sing and pray very well, along with the other children at the Mentari Ceria ECD center. I had taught him how to pray at home before, but somehow he didn't do that well. It seems the ECD tutors know better approaches for young children. The tutors are so nice and patient, while I used to get easily angry with Habibie. I see how the ECD tutors communicate using a nurturing tone of voice with the children. Soon enough, I also learned for myself how to communicate better with my son.
"It has changed me and surely has changed Habibie! Habibie now also likes to teach his younger sister, Alisa, how to sing and pray," Yeyen says. Alisa also goes to the center, and she doesn't receive pressure to learn how to read and write early, as Habibie did.
"Many parents yell when disciplining their child," notes Eliana, a tutor at Mentari Ceria. "Yelling is not a form of discipline, but rather a punishment. We have learned so much from the training we had from ChildFund on early childhood development. Discipline is teaching through communication in a calm and gentle way. Children who are yelled at regularly will eventually learn to ignore their parents' yelling."
Tutors at the center have been provided with training in early childhood development, which they pass on to parents and caregivers, aiming to create a safe and caring environment with healthy interaction between adult and child.
"I don't yell at my son anymore or at my daughter," Yeyen says. "I pay attention to what I say and how I say it to my children. Having fun and interactive activities at the ECD center with other children and the changes in interaction at home have really helped boost my son's self-esteem. I want my children to play and learn freely."
By Saroj Pattnaik, ChildFund India
Kshetrapal, 33, and his family live in the town of Firozabad in India's Uttar Pradesh region, an area known for its home-based bangle industry. With no other source of income, the family saw no alternative but to do this difficult and often dangerous work.
"I and all my family members were spending more than 10 hours every day in joining, sorting and coloring bangles in a very distressful environment," Kshetrapal recalls. "I never liked that work, but I had no choice at all."
Along with his wife, his younger brother and elderly parents, Kshetrapal used to crouch over hot, smoky stoves for all those hours welding the ends of glass bangles and decorating them with glitter — until he enrolled in ChildFund India's Sustainable Livelihood Development Program.
Started in 2012 as a pilot in Firozabad supported by ChildFund Deutschland (Germany), the program aims to empower people, especially youths engaged in bangle making, to adapt to changing circumstances and take up sustainable business ventures of their own choosing.
"The Sustainable Livelihood Development Program is a great program through which we can help the youth and women become independent and self-sufficient," says Dr. Werner Kuepper, ChildFund Deutschland's program director. "With the help of this initiative, the local youth can be free from the bangle work and start up something of their own that is new and has sustainability."
The program's organizers first examined the participants' lives, including their education, their current livelihoods and what kind of work they wished to do. During the second phase, the participants were trained to come up with business plans, develop commercial models and test the new business models in open-market conditions. They attended classes, worked in groups and collected market information, as well as creating prototypes of their products.
"Many a time, I wanted to start some other business that would allow me to get rid of this distressful bangle making," Kshetrapal says. "But I had no idea of how to start a new business, nor had I money for it." But a friend of his brother mentioned the livelihood program, and Kshetrapal enrolled.
During the program, the father of four was asked if he had a business in mind. "I shared my thoughts of starting a snack-making business, which I had harbored for several years but didn't know how to start it," he says. "During the training sessions, I was informed about the risks and techniques of running a sustainable business. Subsequently, they fine-tuned my business model, and today I am doing the business quite successfully."
Kshetrapal's life has been difficult. He lost his first wife to tuberculosis seven years ago, and he had to leave college to work and support his family.
"After my wife's death, my father also fell ill because of the excessive smoke, which we had to inhale for hours while making bangles every day," he recalls. "Since then, I was thinking of an alternate livelihood option, and ChildFund has given me that opportunity. I am so very thankful to this organization."
Today, Kshetrapal has his own business of producing and distributing snacks, which are highly popular in India. Early this year, he and a few other students presented their business models at an event organized in Firozabad, and he received a certificate from the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, a German university.
"Today, I am very happy that we have shifted from bangle making to snack making — from unhealthy and painful work to relatively safer and less laborious work," Kshetrapal says. "My younger brother is now going to college. We are able to earn more than what we used to earn in bangle making. I am very happy and want to scale up my business soon."
By Kate Andrews, ChildFund Staff Writer
Today is World Malaria Day, which recognizes one of the deadliest diseases in the world, particularly for children under the age of 5. According to the World Health Organization's 2013 malaria report, approximately 627,000 people died from the vector-borne disease; 90 percent of those who died were in sub-Saharan Africa, and 77 percent were children younger than 5.
There are several things you can do to help ease the problem of malaria, which affects countries in Asia, as well as in Africa.
The greater availability of medicated bed nets and medication, along with education about preventive measures, has helped many families. Malaria mortality rates fell by 42 percent between 2000 and 2012 in all age groups and by 48 percent in children under 5. Nonetheless, many still need assistance.
Donating bed nets, whether it's one or a dozen, makes a big difference for children in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, The Gambia, Uganda, Zambia and other countries. It can be the difference between life and death.
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By Silvia Ximenes and Natasha Cleary, ChildFund Timor-Leste
April 25 is World Malaria Day, a time to recognize the toll this disease takes on many people worldwide, particularly children under the age of 5.
It's mid-morning off tropical Timor-Leste's coast, in the mountains of Liquica district. The wet season is coming to an end, so the trees and scrub are still green, and fruit and vegetables are abundant. But the wet season also creates an abundance of mosquitos.
Elderly patriarch Jose Dias lives in one of the only houses in his village that's made of concrete; most are made of bamboo and palm leaves. Despite its stronger foundations, the house lacks window coverings and fly screens, like all houses here, and it is full of mosquitos. They swarm as Jose speaks about protecting his growing family from malaria.
"My family received two bed nets from ChildFund, and the volunteer also gave us information about how to use them properly and why we need to use them," he says. "Giving information with nets is important, because some people didn't know what they were for and used them to catch fish or protect their trees from pests."
But there are no bed nets in Jose's garden. While his adult children are working in the fields harvesting vegetables, Jose stays at home with his infant grandson, who sleeps under a net, protected from the mosquitos.
Community health volunteers trained through ChildFund have visited his home and hold group education sessions in his community, raising awareness of disease prevention, like how and why to use nets, and advocating the use of local health clinics. Last year, ChildFund distributed 950 insecticide-treated nets in Liquica district.
Up the hill from Jose's house is 7-year-old Jakson's bamboo and palm leaf house. Jakson contracted malaria a few years ago, before his family started using nets. "When I had malaria, I just stayed at home sleeping. I couldn't go to school or play with my friends," he says. "Jakson had a fever and headache," explains his mother, Agostinha. "I knew that I had to quickly take him to the health post to get medication and treatment. Juleta [a volunteer] had already informed my family and the community.
"If I lost a child due to sickness, life could never be the same again," Agostinha continues.
She has four children who are 7 and younger, and they now all sleep under bed nets provided by ChildFund. Children younger than 5 are at increased risk of rapid progression of malaria, as well as more severe mutations and a higher likelihood of death, according to the World Health Organization.
But there is hope. Through interventions like distribution of bed nets and increasing community awareness, malaria has almost been eradicated in Liquica. Last year, ChildFund distributed 950 insecticide-treated bed nets in Liquica district.
"In 2006, 220 of every 1,000 people who took a blood test had malaria," says Pedro Paulo Gomes, director of the Liquica District Health Service. "Nowadays it is less than two. The dramatic decrease has been achieved through successful interventions like training [of health staff], bed net distribution and behavior-change information provided to the community."
Gomes adds that the Ministry of Health has a good working relationship with ChildFund. "We work in partnership to train health staff and volunteers on community health education."
By Saroj Pattnaik, ChildFund India
One in a series this week for World Health Day (April 7)
On a hot afternoon in southern India, the atmosphere inside the small community center was unbearably sultry. But for a group of women, the heat was not terribly bothersome, as they were in the middle of an informative and eye-opening session on child care and parenting skills.
Led by Beula Ruth of the Kalaiselvi Karunalaya Social Welfare Society, one of ChildFund's local partner organizations in the state of Tamil Nadu, the workshop was aimed at educating pregnant and lactating mothers about prenatal and postnatal care.
"I had no idea about exclusive breastfeeding. I didn't know that a child needs only breast milk for six long months," says Saraswathi, a first-time mother of a 5-month-old baby. "This is something that I am hearing for the very first time."
Beula agrees and adds, "Every time, we come across some women who don't have the basic knowledge on child care. This is why we continuously conduct such awareness sessions in our project area."
There has been substantial improvement to government health services in India, but a majority of people living in rural areas still don't have access to health care. And that's where ChildFund comes into the picture, by working with the government and local partners to bring public health services to underserved communities.
Here are some of the stark facts about the lives of rural Indians:
(Sources: National Rural Health Mission, Government of India; WHO; Indiafacts.in)
As part of our Early Childhood Development program, ChildFund and its partners in India conduct training sessions for mothers, discussing good nutrition (both for themselves during pregnancy and for their children under the age of 5), developmental benchmarks and preventive health care, among other issues.
Last year, there were more than 9,000 training sessions across India, with more than 180,000 parents and other caregivers participating. As a result, more than 86 percent of births occurred in hospitals or other health institutions, and more than 68,000 children have been fully immunized.
"We make sure that all the communities have the access to government health facilities and if they don't we bring those services to their doorsteps," Beula says. "Our ECD workers and volunteers continuously monitor the health of children, pregnant women and new mothers and refer them to nearby hospitals whenever necessary."
Like Beula, Anita Ghalekar in Chochinde Kond — a remote village in Maharashtra State's Raigad district — is a busy woman. Even after her retirement from ChildFund's local partner Pride India, she is committed to maintaining access to health services for local families.
Besides overseeing ChildFund's home-based ECD intervention activities in her region, Anita leads 15 health camps, which provide workshops and care in individual villages.
"We make sure that all the villages in and around our program area are covered under our programs designed to ensure basic health care of the people, especially children, new mothers and adolescent girls," says Virendra Kulkarni, manager of Pride India.
"And we implement these programs in such a way that the communities take ownership of them," he adds. "For example, when we conduct health camps, villagers provide us accommodation, beds and other logistic support required. And this has helped us reach out to a wider population and implement our program successfully."
Dr. Vijay Kumar Singh, who led a health camp in Uttar Pradesh recently, says, "ChildFund is doing a great work. They are reaching out to people in those places where the government health service has not yet reached."
Ming Chik Chan sent a letter a few months ago to Steve Stirling, ChildFund's executive vice president and chief administration officer. In these excerpts, Mr. Chan shares his story of leaving China for Hong Kong in 1949, during a time of political instability. He and his siblings were placed in orphanages affiliated with Christian Children's Fund during the 1950s, which were led by Dr. Verent Mills, then CCF's overseas director. As an adult, Mr. Chan has worked to help other Chinese children. The images in this post come from his letter.
Taking this opportunity (the 75th anniversary of ChildFund International) on behalf of my brother, my sister and my family; I would like to thank those who contributed to Christian Children's Fund/ChildFund, and for those who labored to raise numerous children. Without such loving deeds, they would be lost and without hope. May our Lord bless them and their families for many generations to come!
Also, I would like to mention our PaPa — the Rev. Verent Mills — and Mrs. Mills, who inspired many of us. Our lives were revived by them and many others. We wish them to rest well in our heavenly Father's bosom.
During the change of government in China in 1949, my father passed away, and my mother left China for Hong Kong, leaving her three children back in the country. My uncles in Hong Kong requested that my mother get us out of China, and that was when we became refugees in Hong Kong. We thank our Lord that during that time, my mother worked as a housemaid for a family from England. Knowing that we had no place to live and no chance of being educated, the mistress of the house helped to get three of us to orphanages managed by Christian Children's Fund. Not only we were provided with shelters and food, we were also provided with full-scale educations.
We were taught to value life, to work hard and to respect others.
My sister's and my brother's stories were about the same. We were admitted into CCF orphanages at different times and at different locations. Later on, my sister and I moved to Children's Garden.
It was the second time I rode a train since I was born. I was 9 years old, and I remember this clearly. My mother was going with me, and I knew it would be a long ride.
My mother took me to an orphanage far away in the new territory of Hong Kong. That place was called Taipo, a small city near the border of China. After getting off the train, we had to ride a bike, and it took another hour to get to a village. There, we were greeted by several men; later on I found out that they were the staff and principal of the orphanage.
The name of this orphanage was called Agricultural Project; translated directly, it means the place where people learn how to farm. This project had a huge Chinese-style mansion, where most of the staff and girls of all ages stayed. There were two other old houses, one about 100 yards away up the hill where many of the boys stayed, and the other about 150 yards down the hill, where I was assigned to stay. Our canteen was a three-walled shack built next to a boys' dorm. Classrooms were scattered around the compound built with mud bricks, wood planks and iron shingle roofs.
I spent four years here, and during one of the typhoons that hit Hong Kong the hardest, many of the buildings were heavily damaged. I remember my dorm's roof was yanked away by the typhoon, and all our belongings were wet. Immediately after this disaster, we were moved to a new orphanage built in Wukaisha, named Children's Garden.
Children's Garden turned out to be like a dream for all of us. This place was set up like villas, built with a huge auditorium, playgrounds, modern classrooms, paved roads and a full-scale infirmary. Each villa accommodated 12 to 14 kids, and we thought of this setup as our family, supervised by a house parent. There were 66 such villas in the time when I lived there. The school systems ran a full-scale program, with lessons from morning to late afternoon, including all kinds of sports and activities. We were also provided with Christian education. Children's Garden was connected by ferry to a university on the other side of the harbor.
This was the place where I grew up. I spent a bit more than four years there, and I left when I turned 18.
I migrated to the USA at the age of 32 with my family and worked in several U.S. corporations. At the age of 60, I took early retirement and volunteered in a Christian organization, setting up orphanages in China. From 2003 to 2012, we set up three orphanages, nurturing about 400 children to date. I retired from this organization on August 2012 after I suffered two light heart attacks.
To read more about ChildFund's 75-year history and what we're doing today, click here.
Interview by Saroj Pattnaik, ChildFund India
As we conclude our 75th anniversary blog series, we are focusing on success stories of youth and alumni from ChildFund's programs in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. Today, we hear from Manisha, a 17-year-old girl from India who has been sponsored through ChildFund since 2005.
I belong to a poor and humble family. I am studying in 12th grade, and my younger brother is in 7th grade. My father works as a supervisor in a glass manufacturing factory in Firozabad. He used to be the sole breadwinner for our family, but now my mother also adds to our family's earnings by working with UNICEF as a community mobilizer. Both my parents are working hard to give us a decent life. We are now a happy family, and I love my parents the most.
But a few years ago, our family was not what it is today. My father was struggling to meet our basic needs. There have been times when my mother had to sleep with an empty stomach, as there was not enough food for all of us. Just to add to our family income, we all started making bangles at home.
I never liked that work of welding the ends of bangles together with the help of a gas stove. We used to sit for hours, welding and coloring the bangles in a very unpleasant atmosphere. Though I was going to school, I had to sit with my parents in sorting or coloring the bangles soon after returning home. I was unable to give much time to my studies. Both my mother and father were having health issues because of the smoke they were exposed to during the day-long bangle work. Even I had developed chest pains and was admitted to hospital several times. But we had no other option then but continuing this unhealthy work.
But things started to change when I became associated with ChidFund. I was enrolled in the Disha Children's Program and also got a sponsor in 2005. Not only did I start getting the benefits of being a sponsored child, but our entire family benefited. Soon, my mother joined a self-help group promoted by the organization. Slowly, we reduced the bangle-making work at home, with my mother attending parenting sessions and supporting ChildFund field staff in encouraging other women to adopt best child-care practices.
In 2010, my mother was selected as a community mobilizer with UNICEF India because of the training she received through ChildFund. Then, we completely stopped bangle-making at home, and my father joined a glass factory as a supervisor. It's purely our family's association with ChildFund that helped bring in these changes.
As a sponsored child, I am very active in all program activities conducted in our town. Earlier, I was a member of a ChildFund-supported children's club. Now I am an active member of a youth club. We have been participating in various training programs designed to develop our skills and leadership qualities.
I was very quiet and shy as a child, but ChildFund's activities have truly helped me to open up and express my thoughts clearly. I am now an educated and confident girl. I am well aware of my rights as well as my responsibilities. Now, I have a vision for my life – to become a doctor and serve the deprived and marginalized communities that don't have access to quality health service even today.
By Sagita Adesywi, ChildFund Indonesia
As we conclude our 75th anniversary blog series, we are focusing on success stories of youth and alumni from ChildFund's programs in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. Today we meet Ester, a tutor at a ChildFund-supported Early Childhood Development center in Dula Luri, East Sumba, Indonesia.
I was a sponsored child since the third grade, and ever since, my life has been with ChildFund. When I graduated from high school in 2001, the director of ChildFund's local partner organization here asked me if I was interested in teaching young children. At first, I was confused, as I had no experience in teaching, but I was happy that I was asked and felt that it was a calling to contribute to my hometown, so I said yes! I was trained for three weeks on early childhood development (ECD) curriculum, daily activity planning, teaching and learning themes and children's personalities.
I practiced talking in front of the mirror at home what I had learned in the trainings. Sometimes, I gathered children in my neighborhood to practice teaching them. Many of them laughed at me.
After the trainings, we went around in Dulaluri, from house to house, assessing how many young children were in the area. In the beginning, we had about 60 children. Since we didn't have a permanent building yet, we did the activities moving from one person's house to another's every couple of weeks. At that time, not many people understood the importance of early childhood development. So, sometimes, children just didn't come. We would then go visiting their house to talk with their parents.
In just three years, ChildFund built us a permanent building and we didn't have to move around anymore. I think that sometimes children do not get their parents' full attention at home. While in the ECD center, they can be really close with us, learning and playing together. Children also bring home what they have learned.
The training I just had is about early childhood development and disaster risk reduction. When I thought about disasters, I only thought about earthquakes, wind storms and heavy rains. Through the training, I learned about the vulnerabilities and risks around us, such as how our broken floor and roof could be really dangerous for our children in the ECD center. If the broken roof falls apart, it would be a disaster! In heavy rains, the center's gutters would be flooded. We need to make sure our children are not playing near the gutters, since they love to play in the rain outside.
This training benefits us and the children. We learn how to teach children about hazards, such as playing with a knife or fire could hurt them. Children learn how to save themselves too when disasters occur and learn how to explain who they are if they are lost or separated from their families. They can say their names, the names of their parents and where they live. I never thought these were important things, but through the training, I understand how this can help the children get back to their families.
Some of the children come from far away to the center, crossing the main road with their parents or older siblings. We are worried for them. I want the parents to also learn about the hazards of the main roads.
If we didn't have the ECD center, our children would fall behind other children who receive these services. When I was a kid, I didn't go to an ECD center, as there wasn't one back then. I grew up shy. If I saw a stranger, I would run away. Children in our ECD center are more confident. They aren't that shy when we have visitors in our center.
ChildFund has changed my life. I only wanted to be a good person and pay forward to as many people as possible what I have gained from ChildFund.


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Georges Carpentier
Name: Georges Carpentier
Alias: The Orchid Man
Born: 1894-01-12
Birthplace: Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France
Died: 1975-10-28 (Age:81)
Hometown: Paris, Paris, France
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 5′ 11½″ / 182cm
Boxing Record: click
Divisions: Flyweight thru Heavyweight (generally Light-Heavyweight)
Managers: Francois DesChamps, Jack Curley (in USA)
Georges Carpentier Gallery
Career Overview
Almost by universal consensus, Georges Carpentier is regarded by historians and fight experts as the greatest European fighter to ever lace up a pair of gloves. Campaigning in every class from flyweight to heavyweight, Carpentier held either the French, European, or world championships in four different weight divisions. A quick-fisted, intelligent fighter, Carpentier also packed a sizable punch for a man of his dimensions and fought at least ten bouts against men who were either world champions or future hall of famers. Handsome, gentlemanly, and a decorated war hero, he attracted many to the sport who would not normally be fans of boxing on both sides of the Atlantic. His popularity helped, alongside that of Jack Dempsey, to generate boxing's first million dollar gate.
European Champion
Carpentier's original fight experience came through savate, a French sport in which fighters are allowed to use their feet in competition. While still a child, however, he was discovered by Francois Descamps, who enthusiastically brought him into the more orthodox form of boxing. Georges made his debut in this sport, as a fourteen year old flyweight in 1908, fighting as often as three times in a week. Though he lost a couple of early bouts, Georges gradually put on weight in the next couple of years and faired better. Between July, 1910 and May, 1911, he fought twenty two bouts, losing just once. This led to a match against Robert Eustache, France's reigning welterweight champion, in Paris on June 15, 1911. Winning by technical knockout in the sixteenth round, Georges was a national champion at just sixteen years of age. When a tough American welterweight and future hall of famer named Aaron Brown (better known as the Dixie Kid) traveled to Paris, Carpentier took him on. Brown, vastly more experienced than the teenaged Frenchman, won by fifth round knockout, but Carpentier was allowed to keep his national laurels. On October 23, 1911, Georges became welterweight champion of all of Europe when he knocked out reigning titleholder Young Joseph in the tenth round of a fight in London.
Four months later, moving up in weight, he took Europe's middleweight crown with a second round knockout of Jimmy Sullivan in Monaco. He defended the honor twice until Frank Klaus, a round-and-tough middleweight from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania came to Europe to face him. A veteran of nearly seventy bouts, Klaus severely punished Carpentier for nineteen rounds until Descamps, still Carpentier's manager, anxiously leapt into the ring, earning his fighter a disqualification. Four months later, in the ring with another veteran American fighter, Billy Papke, Carpentier took another vicious going-over. Descamp prevailed upon Georges to quit before the opening of the eighteenth round. Ignoring critics who said that he should never fight above welterweight, Carpentier dared enter the light heavyweight category, winning the European title on February 12, 1913 with a second round knockout of England?s Dick Rice. If this accomplishment stunned the experts, Carpentier?s fourth round knockout of European heavyweight champion Bombadier Billy Wells on June 1 proved astonishing. Against the much larger Wells, Carpentier endured two early knockdowns only to rise and defeat his man with a terrific body attack. In a rematch held in Wells? native London seven months later Georges did the job in one round. In a March, 1914 bout against hall of fame American heavyweight Joe Jeanette, Carpentier lost a fifteen round decision but gave a good enough account of himself to prove he belonged on the world stage.
At this time, the reigning heavyweight champion of the world was Jack Johnson, a black man who was incredibly unpopular not only because of his skin color but because of his controversial private and public lives. Many in America and abroad called for the emergence of a ?Great White Hope? to defeat Johnson and return the crown to the Caucasian race. Thus a ?White Hope Championship? was invented by boxing promoters to determine who was the best white heavyweight in the world. On July 16, 1914 Georges took on hard-hitting American Ed (Gunboat) Smith, the current holder of the ?White Hope? title. Carpentier stunned many by putting Smith down in the first round, but then switched to a defensive strategy to frustrate the bigger man. In the sixth round Gunboat caught the Frenchman and put him on the canvas. While Georges was still rising from the knockdown, with the referee counting over him, the over anxious American punched again. The referee immediately stopped the fight and declared Carpentier the winner by disqualification. Carpentier was now recognized as the best white heavyweight in the world.
World Champion
Whatever success the young fighter accomplished in the ring had to wait come 1914. Georges signed up for the French Air Force during World War I and put himself frequently in harm?s way as a low-flying observation pilot. During his service he was awarded the War Cross and Military Medal, two of his country's highest honors for bravery in the armed services. Though his ring career did not resume until 1919, Carpentier's military record made him as popular as ever and he jumped right back into big fights. On July 19, 1919, he knocked out Dick Smith in eight rounds to regain his status as the heavyweight champion of Europe. He defended that title with a first round knockout of Joe Beckett before traveling to New Jersey and taking on future hall of famer Battling Levinsky, the reigning light heavyweight champion of the world. After knocking out Levinsky in just four rounds, Carpentier became a full-fledged champion of the world.
There remained, of course, only one honor higher than light heavyweight champion of the world: heavyweight champion of the world. In the early 1920s that man was none other than the ?Manassa Mauler,? Jack Dempsey. Dempsey had not served during World War I, exempt because of his status as the sole moneymaker in his family. Regardless of his excuse, many in America regarded Dempsey as a ?slacker,? a draft dodger. In 1921, he was not well liked even by his own countrymen, despite his aggressive, exciting style. Innovative promoter Tex Rickard found in Carpentier the perfect foil for Dempsey?s ?bad guy? image. Playing up the Frenchman?s war service, good looks, and gentlemanly manner, Rickard hyped the fight as the ?Battle of the Century,? a fight about more than just two men, but about morality and ideals. The result was the first million dollar gate in boxing history. On July 2, 1921, in a specially constructed arena at Jersey City, New Jersey, more than 80,000 people watched Carpentier take on the much larger Dempsey. During the fight, Carpentier tried to use speed and technique to offset Dempsey?s raw power, but eventually fell into trading punches with the champion. In the opening round, he managed to land a stiff right on Dempsey?s head, which surprised and stunned the champ. But Dempsey rebounded with a brutal onslaught to the body, followed by a left hook to the face that shattered Carpentier?s nose. While boxing his way through the second, Carpentier landed a right against the face of the on-rushing Dempsey. Again the champion staggered. Meanwhile, Georges was unable to follow-up as his thumb had shattered in two places behind the force of the blow. After this, the American took complete control. He dug into the smaller man with hook after hook and, in the fourth, dropped Georges with a left-right combination. Up at nine, Carpentier was nonetheless obviously finished. One more right hook rendered the challenger unconscious.
Disappointed in the loss but still the recognized light heavyweight champion of the world, Carpentier took on hall of famer Ted (Kid) Lewis with the title on the line. Lewis was a former welterweight champ of the world and the reigning light heavyweight champion of England. The fight ook place in Lewis? home of London, on May 11, 1922. During the first round, Lewis turned to the referee to complain about Carpentier?s holding. The referee did not stop the action however and Carpentier, seeing an opening while Lewis was distracted, landed a right hand. Carpentier won the fight by first round knockout, although under dubious circumstances. In his next bout, Carpentier lost the championship to the virtually unknown Battling Siki, a Sengalese brawler whom the champ took too lightly. Though Georges seemed to have control of the fight and dropped Siki in the second and third rounds. In the fourth, though, the constantly aggressive Siki, broke Carpentier?s nose and opened a cut above one of his eyes. In the sixth Siki closed in and scored a clean knockout. The referee, in a blatant show of partiality, initially disqualified Siki for supposedly tripping Carpentier. However, when the crowd erupted with jeers at the result, the referee was frightened into awarding Siki the victory by knockout.
Later Years
Carpentier, despite two high profile losses in two years, continued to face major competition. On October 1, 1923 he showed signs of his old self by knockout Joe Beckett out in one round, for the second time. A few months later he was in the ring with America?s Tommy Gibbons, a future hall of famer. The fight went the scheduled ten round distance, but, because official decisions were outlawed in Indiana at the time, the fight is recorded as a no-decision. The popular verdict held that Gibbons had done enough to win. On July 24, 1924, Carpentier took on future heavyweight champion Gene Tunney in a light heavyweight bout. Tunney dominated the fight, put Georges down three times in the tenth and once in the fourteenth before Carpentier?s second stopped the bout during the fifteenth round. Taking 1925 off, Georges mounted a comeback in 1926. Any hope of renewed success was cut short however, when he faced clever boxing Tommy Loughran, himself a future champion, in Philadelphia. Losing a fifteen round decision to Loughran, Carpentier never again fought on a world class level. He won two more fights against forgettable opponents before calling it quits in 1926.
In his post-boxing life, Carpentier remained a wildly popular and respected figure throughout Europe. He found work as everything from a boxing referee, to movie actor, to concert performer, to bar owner. He died in Paris on Ocotber 28, 1975 at the age of 81. He was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
Roberts, James B. and Alexander G. Skutt. The Boxing Register. 4th ed.
Heller, Peter. In This Corner.
Myler, Patrick. A Century of Boxing Greats.
Kahn, Roger. A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s.
profile at Cyber Boxing Zone
Miscellaneous Facts & Info
- Carpentier has the distinction of being the only boxer in history to have refereed a World Title bout before ever fighting in one himself--he officiated the 14 June 1914 Jack Johnson-Frank Moran World Heavyweight bout.
- Autobiography: Carpentier: By Himself
- May 1918 Exhibition: [1]
Contemporary Newspaper Excerpts
The following is from a series of newspaper articles published in May 1921.
Fifteen years ago Georges Carpentier, at the age of 12, was a pit boy in a coal mine in Lens, France. That little obscure mining town had been the scene of his childhood play days and of his early schooling. He was born of poor parents and as soon as he was old enough, Joined his father, a miner, in daily trips to the insides of the earth. The youth's weekly earnings went to help keep the wolf from the Carpentier door.
In those days Georges was a timid-appearing, fair, haired youth, with an appearance far from that of a lad who would indulge in anything that required muscle and brawn. He was generally looked upon as a fireside mother's boy. Working in darkness all day long, away from sunshine and open air, didn't appear to Georges. He wanted to do something else.
With that thought ever on his mind, he occasionally went, after working hours to a boxing school that had been opened in the town by Prof. Francois Descamps. Like many other youngsters he watched fighters work. Finally he became well known as one of the youngsters: in. the town, and was now and then allowed to slip on a pair of gloves himself and mix in the sparring battles.
One night he gave a much bigger fellow a good drubbing Descamps witnessed the bout and was much impressed with the fair haired kid's showing. Georges was encouraged to come to the school more regularly. Eventually the professor had a hunch there was something that goes to make a real battlers in the kid ? at least a lot of nerve.
Descamps took the matter up with Carpentier?s parents .he wanted to take their son under his wing and train him. At first there was much objection, but Descamps persistency won out and Georges left his pit boy task for all time. From then on the youngster was at the gym almost day and night. Rough edges were trained off of him and he was stacked up against the best fighters in Descamps lot in short notice. Descamps' mother in-law took an interest in the boy from the start.
Outside battles with a money angle to them, however, were few and far between, and money talked mighty loud with Descamps and his youthful pupil. Hence they went on little tours and Carpentier staged exhibition bouts in cafes at night. Let Georges tell you about it himself:
"First we staged a fight; then followed with an acrobatic turn. As a grand finale I allowed myself to be sent into a trance by Descamps and did ?thought reading? Then Carpentier smiles and says ?Bunkum?
But bunkum or not the money rolled in and this To say the least was pleasing to master and pupil. Finally Carpentier first real bout came in the later part of 1907 against Bourgeois. George trimmed him in four rounds and followed this with another four round Win over Wetink. Carpentier was battling as a flyweight being just 13 and Far from developed his third bout saw him get a drubbing From Mazoir a much touted battler in four rounds.
The year 1908 took him into the ring with men who had gained real reputations. In his first year Georges Carpentier had occasion for very little test of endurance. He had developed a flashy, dancing style of battling and seldom found it necessary to stay in the ring longer than four rounds. His nasty right mitt usually found an opening early in the bout
Early in 1908, after scoring his first real knockout, against Moinereau a countryman, in three rounds, he was matched to meet a jockey by the name of Salmon. This fighter had earned a reputation through cleaning up on all of the flyweight scrappers in the territory. Carpentier was several years younger than Salmon and many pounds lighter. Fight fans were amused at such a match. "What chance did the little slender fellow have ? ?.
His Longest Fight
At any rate the bout was staged scheduled as a 20-round affair. It took Carpentier through his longest fight, thus far, and cleared up all suspicion that he would run out of wind in a long contest because of his peppiness from the first bell.
Georges stuck it out 18 rounds And quit then, only after his backers- tossed a towel in the ring. Salmon had knocked him down many times and had all the argument this was the second with Salmon. Carpentier had won the first on a foul, but was not satisfied with that sort of a win . he himself insisted on the second scrap.
Got Cheese Money
In spite of defeat in the 18- Round there was a bright side for Carpentier and Descamps George drew down about $8 for his share of the proceeds and this came in handy for crackers and cheese. Little money rattled in their jeans in those days. They were going from camp to camp on foot picking up grub change as they went along.
In the closing days of that year Carpentier won a six-round battle with Lepine, a much-touted boxer, and fought 6 and 20-round draws with Legrand, another fighter who stood high in fistic circles. He had now passed the 13 year mark and remarkable development had taken place. His weight held him in the flyweight class however. Early in 1909 Georges turned The tables on his previous two time opponent, getting a decision over Salmon in 10 rounds .shortly after this he matched with Glorin, the demon of the day in France. For five rounds Carpentier looked a winner. Then a sudden blow was slipped over and he went down and out. It was the first time he had taken the count
On the second meeting between Carpentier and Paul Til, there was much speculation as to what would happen. The first scrap, over the 20-round route, had been a draw. This time the go was for 10 rounds. Would Carpentier speed up, in the shorter route? That's just what be did, and won the decision.
Georges was fast taking on weight and flirting with the feather division. Just previous to graduating he disposed of Pickard and Lampin, via the K. O. route and won on a foul from Young Warner. It was the second time he had darkened the lamps of Lampin.
Georges Takes Lacing
Few battles came during the featherweight days. One of the first was a setback at the hands of Buck Shine , an English fighter, Carpentier took a good licking in 8 rounds.
Following in short order came another defeat when he clashed with Young Snowball, another Englishman. Paul Til, still a topnotcher, then made a bid for a third match with Georges. The two fought to a draw in 15 rounds. Fighting men whom he had already clashed with, was one of the best little things Carpentier did in the early days.
He was always willing to give a man. another chance. Young Warner followed Til's attempted comeback. He had lost to Georges, in their first mix, on a foul, and contended another battle would see him winner. Carpentier was willing and the two journeyed to Cambrai for a 10-round go. In the seventh frame the question of superiority was settled when Warner was knocked out into dreamland.
Wins over Percy Wilson, in 10 rounds; Geo. Gaillard, in. 6 rounds; Cuny, in 8 rounds; Jack Daniels in 10 rounds and Demien (Demlin) a Belgian star, in 10 rounds followed. And in the meantime Georges knocked out Jim Campbell in 5 frames and battled Jean Andony to a 10-round draw.
That finished the featherweight career. Georges was growing rapidly and when he next stepped into the ring it was as a lightweight Ed Brochet was one of the first battlers to connect -with him in this class. He connected, in the 7th round, with Carpentier'a right, and went down in a heap.
In those days George Randall was stepping SOME in the British pugilistic world. He was thought a fitting man to hand the fair haired French speed boy a cleaning. Randall eyed Carpentier's record and set sail for Paris to conquer. Two bouts resulted. In the first Randall lost on a decision to 10 rounds and in the second he was knocked out in half that time
Daniels Licked Again
Then Carpentier drew a blank from one of his own countrymen. Henri Piet had all the best of a ten round argument. This gave Jack Daniels, British fighter, new heart and he requested a second go with Georges. Once more a 10-round go found Daniels on the wrong end of a decision.
England then bid once more by sending Young Nipper across the pond to fight Carpentier. This Britisher was a tough bird and before the fight his chances looked mighty good. After the fight, it was a different story. Carpentier got the decision in 8 frames.
Georges then moved into the welterweight class and won three straight 10-round bouts from Jack Meekins, Sid Stagg and Geo. Colbourne, all Englishmen. He than was matched to Meethis first American opponent
George Carpentier with a long string of victories over English fighters, had not yet clashed with an American opponent up to the early part of 1921.
Frank Loughrey, of Pittsburgh at this time was creating quite a stir across the pond, and Georges was signed to battle him in Paris. The bout went the full 15 rounds but Carpentier had all the best of it.
Success had been so kind to Georges, in bouts with his countrymen, that but one fighter stood between him and the welterweight championship of France. This battler, Robert Eustache, had cleaned up on all of the topnotch scrappers, and the welter crown rested on his head.
Wins Championship.
The scrap was arranged and Carpentier won a decision and, the championship in 16 rounds.
Through all the training for his many fights, Mme. Vanhibroucq, Manager Descamps mother-in-law, had been Carpentier's guardian angel. She watched over him, and always in Georges younger days, saw that her handsome "son" was not bothered by the young girls. "I do not blame the girls," she says, "Georges is so handsome,clever and famous. But I scare them off."
Shortly after copping the welter crown Georges licked two more English battlers. Jack Goldswain in 4 rounds, and Arthur Evernden, in 15 rounds, and was then matched with Dixie Kid, an American negro fighter. When "the battle? was staged on August 29, 1911,Jack had not had a fight in over a month. He was not in tiptop condition and the Kid handed him a beating in five rounds.
Georges then made his first trip to London. He startled English fight fans by trimming Sid Burns In 15 rounds and following closely with a win over Young Joseph, In 10 rounds. Two more battles, a knockout over Theodore Gray in nine 'rounds and a win over Harry Lewis in. 20 rounds wound up the year.
The year 1912 started off with knockouts over Battling LaCroix and Jim Sullivan. Georges had, In the meantime, taken on weight that put him In the middle class. This lead to a go with George Gunther, Australian champ, who had cleaned up all other, opponents In this division. It was a tough battle, for 20 rounds, and Georges drew the decision. The glory heaped on him by this performance was greatly added to when he licked Hubert Roe, ex-heavyweight champ of France and stood well with the populace, as a scrapper. Carpentier went the full 20 rounds to gain a decision and then took on, two-more Americans.
Klaus Wins on Foul
The first, Frank Klaus, Pittsburg "Bearcat," gave the little Frenchman a terrible mauling. Georges also slipped, in some telling punches and when Klaus was declared winner on a foul, in the 19th round, both battlers were in a bad way. The second, Billy Papke, had trimmed Marcel Moreau, Carpentier's main French rival, and Georges challenged him. The Yankee slipped over a wicked punch to Carpentier's left eye, in the 17th round, and Manager Descamps withdrew Georges from the battle, giving Papke the decision.
Still putting on weight, Georges slipped into the light heavyweight division and was next matched with Moreau. All question as to Georges Carpentier?s right to the claim of champion of France was settled, when he won from Marcel Moreau in eight rounds, and later won from Albert Lurie, official heavyweight champion.
Bouts had been paying the French team, Carpentier-Descamp well, and Georges became a real idol of his country, while his manager reaped a financial harvest. Six knockouts in a row were next added to the long string of Wins Carpentier had accumulated. Bandsman Rice, Cyclone Smith and George Gunther fell in order, in l, 2, 3 and 14 rounds.
Jars England's Pride
Bombardier Wells, English heavyweight, then took the count in four frames and Albert Lurie and Ashley Williams, both Frenchmen, toppled in three and four frames respectively. The Wells defeat was a blow to England's fistic pride. A youngster several inches shorter and many pounds lighter, had trimmed one of its leading battlers.
In the meantime Jeff Smith, an American, had run up a list of wins in Paris. Georges took him on and won in 20 rounds. This battle was followed with a knockout, and a second knockout of Wells, in one round. That was the last battle of 1913.
Throughout Carpentier's fighting career there had been gossip of Descamp and Georges working the "hypnotic eye" on opponents. It traced back to the early days when the two played master and pupil In "thought reading" performances.
George Explains
In connection with this Georges says: "Descamp takes away from me, by his very influence all my cares and troubles when I am scheduled to fight, leaving me to enter the ring With only a fighting mind?.
"He subtly convince me that he is actually fighting at the same time I am. and fighting for me."So much for the "hypnotic eye." It was Carpentier's wallops that were carrying him to victories.
His first battle in 1914 resulted in a knockout of Pat 'Keefe, in two rounds. George Mitchell, Hubert Roe and Phillipe Robinson also went out over the sleep route. Ed (Gunboat) Smith, top-notch American scrapper, then journeyed to Paris and lost to Carpentier in the sixth round, on a foul. Another foul gave Georges a win over Kid Jackson in four rounds.
Then Joe Jeannette, prize American negro husky, crossed the pond and handed the French wiz a lacing in 15 rounds.
Served as Aviator
This ended Georges pre-war battles except for a few exhibition bouts. When France went to war with Germany Georges enlisted in the aviation branch. He was twice decorated. During the fighting days he gave many boxing exhibitions for American troops in France.
The fighting game had piled up a. fortune for Carpentier. He bad even purchased an interest in the mines at Lens In which he worked as a boy. This fortune of a million francs was lost .through the war and Georges re-entered the ring, after peace came, to rebuild it.
That Georges Carpentier had kept his fighting trim during his war time days was evidenced by his knockout of Dick Smith, on his return to the ring in 1919. Smith lasted but eight rounds. Then the European championship bout, between Carpentier, king battler of France, and Joe Beckett, British champ, was pulled off in London, the latter part of December.
Cops Crown of Europe
Georges delivered a left to the chin and followed with a right knocking Beckett out in the first round and annexing the title. He gained favor by carrying his defeated opponent to his corner, after the count of 10.
Talk of a world championship battle between Carpentier and Dempsey, titleholder in America, resulted from this victory. In the meantime, early in 1920, Carpentier knocked out Blink McCloskey, in two rounds, and disposed of Grundhoven in the same length of time.
Early in March he was married in Paris, to Georgette Elsasser. Their honeymoon was spent in a trip to America. The French battling idol, and his bride, arrived in New York on March 23. Carpentier was flooded with money contracts which carried him into the movies and on a boxing exhibition hour of the United States.
After a rousing welcome and much entertaining in New York, Georges starred in a movie and then hopped aboard the same special train that carried Governor Cox and King Albert, of Belgium around the US, and went on a 70-day sparring trip, under the management of Jack Curley, well known American promoter.
Curley paid Carpentier $70.000 for this trip, $1000 a performance, and when this was added to Georges' movie money he had over $100,000 in American money when he sailed back to France on July 10. A new member of the Carpentier family was expected and Georges and his wife wanted it to be born on French soil.
In the meantime a Carpentier-Levinsky match was boomed and Georges returned to America on September 13. His wife remained in France. The French champion trained at Jack Curley's place in Great Neck, L.I., and at Freddie Welsh's health farm at Summit, N.J., On October 12 he knocked Battling Levinsky out in the fourth round. It was a right to the jaw that sent the American scrapper to the land of nod.
This battle was a lead-up to the big go with Jack Dempsey and as soon as articles were signed for the world's championship bout, Georges returned to his native land. He took with him $50,000 his share of the Levinsky go.
Georges is a Daddy
Back in France he went on a short exhibition tour and on the strength of being the man matched with Jack Dempsey cleaned up a small fortune. On December 15 a daughter arrived in the Carpentier home. Georges was a proud daddy and said, ?I?ll make a champion tennis player of her.? In the early part of 1921 Carpentier and his manager Descamps went on another money making tour in Europe. On May 7 he sailed for America to train for the world's title bout with Jack Dempsey at Jersey City July 2nd.
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Neither Lhota nor Giuliani's press office returned repeated calls for this story. HPD spokesperson Carol Abrams refused to answer questions, saying, "I just don't have the authorization to release the information." Nicholas Criscitelli, president of the company that owns Da Nico, referred questions to his attorney, Arnold Kriss. Kriss declined to provide details, saying, "That's not in the best interest of my client," but added, "we're there legally." Kriss, also the attorney for the group that sponsors the San Gennaro feast, laughed away suggestions that the city was catering to Da Nico, saying, "I can't believe for pasta, pizza, or a veal chop that you get special favors in New York."
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