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Today, Administrator Mark Andrew Green delivered welcome remarks on his first day as USAID’s Administrator on August 7, 2017.
Around the world, the @StateDept and @USAID are leading efforts to fight disease, feed the hungry, and reduce instability, all of which makes us safer here at home. As we bring attention to the work that so many Americans are doing to help others around the world during #AmericanHeroesWeek, today we are spotlighting Tim Callaghan. Tim, the Senior Regional Advisor for
Latin America and the Caribbean for USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, has served as team leader for many of USAID’s disaster responses including Hurricane Matthew and the Ebola outbreak. Here, Tim provides water containers and kitchen sets to a mother and daughter who were affected by the #Ecuador earthquake.
Press Statement
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson
May 10, 2017
I welcome President Trump’s announcement of his intention to nominate Mark Andrew Green as the new Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Mark brings vast experience to this position, having served as a U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, a Member of the House of Representatives from Wisconsin, and a board member of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He currently serves as the president of the International Republican Institute, an organization dedicated to building strong and lasting democracies across the globe. Mark will help us prioritize where America’s future development investments will be spent so that we can ensure every tax dollar advances our country’s security and prosperity.
USAID plays a vital role in protecting U.S. national security by fostering stability, resolving conflict, responding to humanitarian crises, and ending infectious diseases. He will serve as an outstanding leader for the men and women of USAID, and will work to build a more safe and prosperous global community.
(Source: state.gov)
As dawn broke in Bataan, the Philippines, on April 9, 1942, 21-year-old Jesse M. Baltazar saw his Filipino comrades holding sticks with white handkerchiefs tied to them. “We’ve surrendered,” they muttered. Within hours, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army arrived to round up 76,000 Filipino and American POWs for a 65-mile trek to Camp O’Donnell in what became known as the Bataan Death March. Read more about the life of Jesse M. Baltazar on DipNote: https://go.usa.gov/x5Mbj.
(Source: go.usa.gov)
The FY 2017 Budget includes a range of efforts supporting implementation of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), including expanded funding for diversity programs, bolstering capacity and expertise on climate issues, and revamping the Department’s countering-violent-extremist communications through a new Center for Global Engagement.
The President’s highest priority is keeping the American people safe, and the State Department and USAID budget includes funding that is critical to the United States’ leadership role in the global coalition that will destroy ISIL.
In USAID’s – and the world’s – goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths, the faith sector is a powerful partner. Read how USAID’s collaboration with the Malawian Ministries for Maternal Health is leveraging strategic partnerships, promoting country ownership, and building the capacity of local communities: http://go.usa.gov/cRpQB.
(Source: go.usa.gov)
A room full of young people with heads buried in their phones is not an unfamiliar sight. In fact, this was the scene in rural Margibi County, Liberia, during a training of youth-turned-social mobilizers in late February.
The audience members weren’t distracted, though – they were following the trainer’s instructions. To foster culturally adaptive community engagement in the fight against Ebola, USAID-funded training events like these are teaching social mobilizers how to use social media tools like WhatsApp and SMS-based U-report to stay connected while they’re out in the communities, educating people about how to protect themselves from the disease.
(Source: blogs.state.gov)
The end of extreme poverty is President Obama’s bold vision, central to the mission of USAID.
For as long as humans have existed, so have the travails of poverty.
If you were born in 1980, you had a 50 percent chance of living in destitution – a life without enough food, medicine, education or freedom to live a decent life.
But there is reason to believe in a world of less disparity: In just two decades, we have cut global rates of extreme poverty in half, and we now have the tools to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.
(Source: blogs.state.gov)
In Guinea, misinformation about Ebola abounds. Here, the disease has killed more than 2,300 people, and the streets are rife with rumors – of how Ebola is a hoax or a conspiracy to harvest organs. Some Guineans who have seen the ravages of Ebola firsthand believe that the very people coming to help them are actually spreading the disease.
After deploying two times to this West African country as a member of USAID’s Ebola Disaster Response Assistance Team, it became clear to me that community resistance is one of the biggest obstacles to stopping Ebola.
But one NGO is taking a novel approach to dispel these rumors. In the town of Forécariah – a two hour’s drive southeast of Guinea’s capital Conakry – the French Red Cross is running an Ebola treatment center in this hard-hit prefecture with the support of USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. While a team of health care workers is fighting for the lives of the sick, another group is fighting fears by inviting the community inside.
(Source: blogs.state.gov)
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