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Archives for 2015

“I remember it like it was yesterday. The entire city just shrunk.”

Posted by  on Monday, January 12th 2015     
USAID’s Haiti Earthquake Disaster Assistance Response Team Leader Tim Callaghan and USAID Administrator Raj Shah during the 2010 response. / USAID.

On January 12, 2010—five years ago today—a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince and forever changed Haiti. I was struck by the tragedy and inspired by the Haitian people’s resilience. It is something I will never forget.

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Disruptive Innovations Bringing Nepal Closer to Ending Extreme Poverty

Posted by  on Friday, January 9th 2015     
Nurses apply chlorhexidine to the umbilical cord of a newborn at Nepalganj Medical College & Teaching Hospital. USAID is helping Nepal bring the life-saving antiseptic gel to villages, communities and health centers across the country. / Thomas Cristofoletti for USAID

From antiseptic interventions for newborn babies to creative, community-based approaches to countering human trafficking, USAID/Nepal is using several innovative programs to cut extreme poverty. Learning from and scaling these types of interventions globally will be the key to meeting the next set of sustainable development goals post-2015 and ending extreme poverty worldwide.

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Saving Korto and Josephine

Posted by  on Tuesday, January 6th 2015     

Four-month-old Josephine is the youngest Ebola surviver that USAID partner International Medical Corps has treated thus far in their fight against Ebola in West Africa. Here is her survival story.

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Breaking New Ground: A Different Approach to Building Ebola Clinics in Liberia

Posted by  on Friday, January 2nd 2015     
Known as the “mastermind,” Daniel Dined is the head engineer who designed the Zwedru ETU and three others for USAID in southeastern Liberia. “Working for the Liberian people, that’s my primary goal and I love doing that,” Dined said. / Carol Han, USAID

In the town of Zwedru, Liberia, an innovative new type of Ebola treatment unit is designed to tackle one of the Ebola response’s many challenges – the stifling heat.

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