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Millions Soap Up to Commemorate Global Handwashing Day
Water is everywhere — covering almost three-quarters of the earth’s surface — yet nearly one billion people in the world do not have safe water. In addition, inadequate sanitation destroys lives, increases disease and infections, undermines economic growth, and prevents children from attending school. On October 15th, we celebrate Global Handwashing Day with the great [...]
A Development Outreach and Communication Specialist from the Field Visits Washington
What an exciting experience it was! I was nervous when taking my first ever flight to the USA, even more nervous when I was ushered into the Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) Office of USAID for a three-day assignment. However, it took me just a few minutes to feel fully empowered and on board the [...]
Telling the USAID Story
Submitted by Moira Whelan, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs Every day, USAID talks to the families around the world receiving our aid and who are recipients of our programs. We do this in many ways–meetings, events, SMS texting, and websites in native languages, and in parts of the world most Americans have never seen. We [...]
Food Voucher Program Will Assist Sudanese Families
Submitted by Angela Stephens Most U.S. food assistance to Sudan is “in-kind” aid—food that is grown by farmers in the United States, purchased on the open market, then shipped to Sudan. Voucher programs, on the other hand, offer an alternative and complementary approach that gives families access to foods they are already familiar with and [...]
USAID Assistance in Pakistan
By Mark Ward Day in and day out, the men and women of the United States Agency for International Development provide development assistance throughout the world, in environments that are not always safe. I have been in the Foreign Service with USAID for 24 years and currently have the honor of leading the Office of US Foreign Disaster [...]
USAID @ the 10th Annual Mini University
Submitted by Ryan Cherlin Over 1,100 people descended on George Washington University’s campus today for lessons on exciting developments in the field of global health. Participants, including USAID and partner staff, students from 16 universities, government officials, and members from the five military branches, were able to choose from over 70 sessions highlighting state-of-the-art information from a [...]
How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children
Submitted by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. As featured in the Huffington Post: Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child’s death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. Vaccines are [...]
Food Security Month @ USAID: Expanding Our Toolkit in the Fight Against Global Hunger
Originally published in DipNote,the official blog of the U.S. Department of State. About the Author: Jose W. Fernandez serves as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs. I am halfway around the world from Washington, and on October 6, I participated in the Indonesia Joint Agriculture and Investment Forum. I traveled to [...]
U.S. Pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Originally published in DipNote,the official blog of the U.S. Department of State. About the Author: Ambassador Eric Goosby serves as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. I am in New York for the Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The United States is committed to the success of the Global Fund [...]
New Partnership to Support Child Welfare Reform Launched in Russia
Submitted by Jonathan Hale Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, USAID During my recent trip to Russia, I was presented with USAID/Russia’s exciting new child welfare project implemented by a first-time Russian grantee, the National Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NFPCC). This project, which was officially launched September 9, is [...]
