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Diversification Promises Sustainability for Rehab Center
Return to Life, a rehabilitation center in central Ukraine, first received a grant through USAID’s Strengthening Civil Society Organizations project (USAID/UCAN) to make and sell concrete paving blocks to raise additional revenue to fund its activities. The center, which houses up to 16 former drug addicts (many of whom are HIV/AIDS positive) and live-in recovery counselors, was primarily focused on launching a social-purpose business and had not considered growing into a larger-scale operation or connecting with others doing similar things. But with continued USAID/UCAN support, Return to Life has developed multiple business operations to diversify its revenue streams, better positioning itself for self-sufficiency.
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Free e-mail service to announce new postings of news items, photos, reports, speeches and other useful information on the USAID Bureau for Europe and Eurasia website.
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Europe and Eurasia
| Macedonia Visit Highlights Challenges and Potential |
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On June 8, 2008, USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore traveled to Macedonia for a two-day visit packed with high profile briefings, visits to USAID project sites, and meetings with private citizens and beneficiaries of USAID assistance. Fore also met with representatives from all U.S. Government Agencies in Macedonia... Read More ...
Related Items: Macedonia, Education |
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| U.S.-Greece MoU to Expand Investment |
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A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on May 23, 2008, between Greece and the U.S. represents a "significant investment in renewable energy and conservation" in the member states of the Energy Community of Southeast Europe, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Embassy in Athens... Read More ...
Related Items: Environment |
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| Cost-Share Grants Nurture Economic Growth, One Business at a Time |
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A nursery's expansion into vegetable seedlings, a wood processor's new plant and successful products in other business sectors were showcased on May 17, 2008 during USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore’s visit to Kosovo... Read More ...
Related Items: Kosovo, Business Development |
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| NGOs Team Up with Border Guard Service to Combat Trafficking |
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USAID/Ukraine works to build and fortify existing relationships and partnerships between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and state bodies to ensure a concerted national response to trafficking in human beings. Through its Improvement of the System for Identification and Rehabilitation of Trafficking Victims among Deported Persons in Border Regions of Ukraine project... Read More ...
Related Items: Ukraine, Rule of Law |
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| Closing Mission Donates Computers to Bulgarian Schools, NGOs |
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A school for deaf children in Sofia was among the beneficiaries of a computer donation by the USAID Mission to Bulgaria as part of its close-out process. Non-governmental organizations serving Roma children, five schools participating in the Junior Achievement program, and four telecenters were selected to receive office computers... Read More ...
Related Items: Bulgaria, Education |
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| USAID, Russia Collaborate on Development Aid |
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On May 27-28, 2008, USAID participated in an international workshop organized jointly by the Russian Ministry of Finance and the World Bank, in coordination with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), to review development aid statistics and reporting systems... Read More ...
Related Items: Russia, Democracy |
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| Project Celebrates Primary Health Care Achievements in Armenia’s North |
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On June 6, 2008, the USAID/Armenia Primary Healthcare Reform Project (PHCR) held a ceremony marking the completion of the project’s activities in the Lori and Shirak regions of northern Armenia. Over 100 people attended the event, including Minister of Health Harutyun Kushkyan and USAID/Armenia Mission Director Robin Phillips... Read More ...
Related Items: Armenia, Health |
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| Street Law Students Acquit Mock Trial Defendant |
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On their last day of school in late May 2008, fifty-five schoolchildren participated in a mock jury trial, held by the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) with USAID support in Lenkoran, a town of 40,000 people in southern Azerbaijan, just 30 kilometers north of the Iran border... Read More ...
Related Items: Azerbaijan, Education |
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| Micro-Lending Supports Nearly 800 Roma Entrepreneurs |
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On May 30, 2008, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), microfinance institutions USTOI and Mikrofond, and USAID officially closed the Inclusive Business Development of Roma Communities Project. Since its launch in 2006, project partners provided loans totaling 894,792 euros to 796 micro-entrepreneurs—primarily ethnic minorities—from 11 locations in Bulgaria... Read More ...
Related Items: Bulgaria, Financial Markets |
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| Russian Child Welfare Specialists Visit New York |
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In early May 2008, the USAID-supported Assistance to Russian Orphans (ARO) program sponsored a week-long study tour to New York City for six Russian child welfare professionals to observe U.S. models and share lessons learned in family-based (foster) care for orphans... Read More ...
Related Items: Russia, Social Programs |
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| Sustainable Sex Education Project Targets Orphaned Youth |
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Irina Mashtal and her colleagues had worked a great deal on reproductive health education for the young people in Kharkiv, Ukraine when they began to recognize that the specific needs of one group of youth remained unmet... Read More ...
Related Items: Ukraine, Health |
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| Youth Fund Program to Expand to New Regions |
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The Azerbaijan Youth Fund Program will expand to six new regions of the country—Bilasuvar, Davachi, Zagatala, Barda, and Mengachevir city—thanks to increased assistance for the Eurasia Partnership Foundation from the Foreign Commonwealth Officer of the United Kingdom... Read More ...
Related Items: Azerbaijan, Education |
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| Project Aims to Raise Awareness of Citizens’ Access to Justice |
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To educate citizens on the role and function of the judiciary, USAID/Kosovo's Justice Support Project produced three TV public service announcements (PSAs) to increase public understanding of the administration of, and citizens’ access to, justice... Read More ...
Related Items: Kosovo, Education |
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| USAID Partner Delivers First Public Lecture at Russia’s Public Chamber |
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On May 20, 2008, Douglas Rutzen, President of the USAID-supported International Center of Non-for-Profit Law (ICNL), delivered the first-ever public lecture at Russia’s Federal Public Chamber. More than 50 lawyers, journalists, policymakers and non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives attended... Read More ...
Related Items: Russia, Rule of Law |
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| Supply-Side Philanthropy: Building on the Impulse to Give |
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When Volodymyr Slobodonyak, an owner of a small print house in Cervonohrad, a small coal mining town in Western Ukraine, returned home from a seminar in Kiev on social entrepreneurship, he immediately approached Ilona Gudvoka, director of a local nonprofit, with a business proposition... Read More ...
Related Items: Ukraine, Social Programs |
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| Journalists Become Reproductive Health Advocates in Azerbaijan |
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In May 2008, the USAID-funded ACQUIRE Project, in collaboration with Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Health (MOH), conducted a two-day seminar for journalists on reproductive health. The seminar, entitled “Media Advocacy for Reproductive Health” was designed to raise awareness among journalists about a wide range of reproductive health issues... Read More ...
Related Items: Azerbaijan, Health |
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| “Roads Link People” in Kosovo Serb Villages |
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"Roads link people, and this road project has strengthened linkages among residents of Grace," said USAID/Kosovo Mission Director Michael Farbman said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a newly-asphalted road in Grace/Gracke (Vushtrri/Vucitrn municipality)... Read More ...
Related Items: Kosovo, Infrastructure |
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| Koryukivka Reaps Benefits of Strategic Public-Private Partnership |
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A small town of nearly 13,500 residents in Chernihiv Oblast, Koryukivka is home to the Koryukivka Technical Paper Factory, a public corporation that claims to be Europe's largest wallpaper manufacturer. According to Mayor Ihor Matyukha, the factory has always helped the town in some way or other... Read More ...
Related Items: Ukraine, Business Development, Infrastructure |
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| “Democracy That Delivers” Highlights Transitions |
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USAID/Bulgaria and the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) organized an international conference in Sofia on May 21, 2008 entitled “Democracy That Delivers: Unlocking the Potential of Transition.” The conference brought together civil society and government representatives... Read More ...
Related Items: Bulgaria, Democracy |
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| Washington State, Russian Far East Cities To Build Partnerships |
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The U.S.-Russian Far East Municipal Partnership Program, implemented by the Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation (FRAEC) and funded by USAID, announced the creation in April of four new partnerships on local governance between cities in Washington State and the Russian Far East (RFE)... Read More ...
Related Items: Russia, Democracy |
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| USAID Transitions CIPA Program to Local Partners |
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On June 5, 2008, USAID’s Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Support through Financial Sector Development Project held a certificate award ceremony and transition presentation as part of its continued support of the Certified International Professional Accountant (CIPA) Program in Azerbaijan... Read More ...
Related Items: Azerbaijan, Education |
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| Energy Efficiency Project Lights Up Town |
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Ukraine’s communal buildings are notoriously energy inefficient. As energy prices climb, outdated technology becomes an increasingly larger liability for municipal budgets. Like many towns in Ukraine, Trostyanets has apartment buildings with poor lighting that not only wastes energy but also poses a serious safety threat to residents... Read More ...
Related Items: Ukraine, Energy |
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| “Na Chisto” Celebrates Five Years of Investigative Journalism |
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The USAID-supported weekly TV investigative program “Na Chisto” (Clean Slate) celebrated its fifth anniversary at a ceremony in Sofia in May 2008. Deputy Chief of Mission Alexander Karagiannis, Executive Director of the Broadcast Training Center ProMedia Petko Georgiev, and President of the Board of NOVA TV Silva Zurleva, spoke at the event... Read More ...
Related Items: Bulgaria, Democracy |
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| Cultural Celebration Taps Vibrancy of Kosovo Serb Communities |
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Twenty-eight activities ranging from theater performances to chess tournaments attracted more than 1,500 people in five Kosovo Serb communities during the June 2-6, 2008 "Week of Culture." The week-long event is part of USAID's Support to Peace and Stability project, implemented by the Academy for Educational Development... Read More ...
Related Items: Kosovo, Social Programs |
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| Kosovo Celebrates World Milk Day |
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Kosovo celebrated its first World Milk Day on June 1, 2008 in Pristina's Germia Park. Intended to promote milk and the dairy industry, the event targets its nutrition messages primarily to youth. Children from primary schools from Pristina and Mitrovica came to Germia Park for games... Read More ...
Related Items: Kosovo, Education |
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| Russian Youth Take Best Practices on the Road |
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The USAID-supported Youth Development Competencies Program (YDCP) organized a Youth Empowerment Road Show for May 17-18, 2008 in Petrozavodsk to showcase the winners of a national contest for the best youth-driven projects being implemented across Russia... Read More ...
Related Items: Russia, Education |
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| Water Company Agrees to Operations Improvement Plan |
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In January 2008, the Municipal Development Institute, a Ukrainian NGO and USAID implementing partner, signed an agreement with the Alchevsk City Council, the Alchevsk City Development Fund, and the Alchevsk Water Company to jointly develop and implement operations improvement plan for the Alchevsk Water Company... Read More ...
Related Items: Ukraine, Infrastructure |
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| Life Gets Brighter In Alchevsk |
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Poor street lighting is a common problem in many Ukrainian cities, including Alchevsk. It is especially felt in fall and winter, when daylight hours are limited. Elderly people tend not to go out on the street in the dark, unless it is urgent. Parents leave work earlier to pick up children who stay late at school or take additional classes... Read More ...
Related Items: Ukraine, Energy |
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| Social Investment Benefits Business, Accelerates Development |
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With USAID support, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), in collaboration with the Azerbaijan Export & Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO), organized two Corporate Social Investment Program events featuring renowned Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) author and lecturer Wayne Visser... Read More ...
Related Items: Azerbaijan, Business Development |
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