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 Foster Families Find Strength in Numbers
In Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), foster parents and children live in a unique situation. The challenges they encounter are often very different from those of biological families. Without contact with others in similar situations, foster families can end up feeling isolated and alone... Read More ...
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 Shuvalan Children and Family Support Center Celebrates Ramadan
On September 24, 2008, U.S. Ambassador Anne Derse visited the Shuvalan Child and Family Support Center in Shuvalan, a suburb north of Baku, Azerbaijan. Ambassador Derse visited the center to review its progress... Read More ...
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 Kosovo Serb Communities Celebrate Culture Together
Seventeen activities, ranging from documentary films and fashion shows to trumpet and folklore concerts, attracted over 3,000 people during Week of Culture II in six Kosovo Serb communities... Read More ...
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 “No-Family Boy” Finds Home
Amid’s teary face and trembling voice told a heartbreaking story to USAID-supported Children and Family Support Center (CFSC) staff. During educational activities at the Center, Amid began disclosing his history... Read More ...
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 Alchevsk Community Development Partnership Reports Progress
USAID and its partners supporting community development in the eastern city of Alchevsk held a conference on June 25, 2008 to review progress made over the past 10 months... Read More ...
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 Exchange Helps Azerbaijan Official Translate Passion into Action
Elnur Kalantarov, Chief of Press Relations at Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, has long advocated for social integration of at-risk youth and adults with special needs... Read More ...
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 Renovated Belgrade Youth Center Plans for Opening Night
Located in the heart of Belgrade, the Youth Center serves as a venue for major cultural events targeted to the city’s youth, hosting over 700 events and over 180,000 visitors annually... Read More ...
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 Cultural Celebration Taps Vibrancy of Kosovo Serb Communities
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"... Read More ...
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 Supply-Side Philanthropy: Building on the Impulse to Give
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... Read More ...
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 Russian Child Welfare Specialists Visit New York
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... Read More ...
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Reintegration Support Critical for Ukrainian Trafficking Victims
While on their way home after an early evening walk in the park, two Ukrainian girls, Alisa and Natasha (names changed), were kidnapped by a trafficker, who transported them to Moscow... Read More ...
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 Youth Sports Multiply through Azerbaijani Community Connections Participant
During her time in the U.S. on a USAID-supported Community Connections Youth and Amateur Sports and Interest-based Associations exchange, Malahat Tagiyeva learned how government agencies, NGOs, and businesses support youth through sports and other activities... Read More ...
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 Macedonians Respond with Enthusiasm to Philanthropic Challenge
The Center for Institutional Development (CIRa), one of the key implementing partners of the USAID-funded Civil Society Strengthening Project, recently undertook a groundbreaking program to encourage philanthropy among Macedonian companies and individuals... Read More ...
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 Advancing Corporate Social Investment in Azerbaijan
On March 5, 2008, representatives of eleven leading national and multi-national companies and organizations—including AMCHAM, AMFA, Ata Holding, Bank of Baku, Nar Mobile, PRP, Star GSM, StatoilHydro and Zygon Caspian Consulting... Read More ...
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 Experts Team Up to Protect Albania’s Most Vulnerable
Eleven-year old Saleo, a second-grader who loves reading, is also known for tearing up the soccer field with neighborhood friends. He has lived with his relatives, the Cicos, since both his parents died in a neighborhood gun fight in 1997... Read More ...
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 Center Expands One Family’s World
Public opinion often determines people’s choices. That was the case for Ulduz Khanim, an Azerbaijani mother of four children living in Goranboy, Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 Boosting Social Protection in Armenia
On February 8, 2008, USAID/Armenia’s Social Protection Systems Strengthening (SPSS) Project hosted an open house to mark its first year of successful work in Armenia... Read More ...
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 Journalist Wins National Human Rights Award for Moldova Project
For the second year in a row, a journalist with the USAID Anti-Trafficking Project in Moldova received national recognition for her pioneering reporting. Leontina Vatamanu-Margineanu, who directs, writes and produces... Read More ...
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 Study Finds 50% of Macedonia’s Women Fall Prey to Domestic Violence
The Association of Emancipation, Solidarity and Equality of Women (ESE), a nongovernmental organization (NGO) supported by the USAID Civil Society Strengthening Project, recently released a comprehensive study on the state of domestic violence in Macedonia... Read More ...
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 Social Services Help Georgia’s Vulnerable Families
The Kandavadze family was once in dire need of money and forced to sell their big apartment in Tbilisi and move to Rustavi... Read More ...
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 Youth Volunteers Help Spread News on Women’s Issues
Marina Modebadze, Chair of the Society of Women Democrats and 2006 Community Connections alumnae, has long been concerned about the lack of women’s involvement in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region’s politics and society... Read More ...
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 American Host Families Visit New Georgian Friends
The lasting relationships created through USAID’s Community Connections (CC) program were evident this summer, when American host families paid reciprocal visits to Georgia... Read More ...
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 USAID Holds Moldova’s First Conference for Faith-Based Organizations
In December 2007, USAID and U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Michael D. Kirby hosted the first International Faith and Community Based Initiatives Conference in Moldova to assist local faith-based and community organizations... Read More ...
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 Tajik Human Trafficking Film Debuts at Minsk Festival
The film “Boz ki” was chosen for screening at the XIV Film Festival in Minsk, Belarus November 17–24, 2007. “Boz ki” was created with support from the USAID Trafficking in Persons Prevention Project... Read More ...
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 International Partnership Festival Caps Six-Year Program
From July 17-18, the USAID-supported Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation (FRAEC), hosted its final International Partnership Festival, marking the end of a USAID-funded six-year program to support U.S.-Russian... Read More ...
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 Right to Play Program is a Fun First Step in Engaging Youth
Over the past two months, through USAID, CHF Azerbaijan has partnered with the Canadian organization Right to Play (RTP) to implement three trainings in the regions of Khacmaz, Qax and Zaqatala, in northern Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 Primorskiy Kray Requests Trafficking, Domestic Violence Training
At a June 2007 meeting, a government commission established to combat human trafficking and domestic violence in Primorskiy Kray, Russia, called upon law enforcement agencies and the tourism board to invite NGOs to organize trainings for their staff... Read More ...
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 Azerbaijan Youth Fund Grows with U.S., UK Support
The Azerbaijan Youth Fund program, implemented by the Eurasia Foundation has recently received additional support from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom to expand its activities through 2009... Read More ...
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 Displaced Youth Celebrate International Children’s Day
More than 300 children enrolled in World Vision Russian Federation programs participated in educational events to celebrate International Children’s Day in early June 2007... Read More ...
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 USAID Hands Over Children and Family Support Centers to Azerbaijan
On July 9, 2007, a signing ceremony transferred the USAID-supported Shulevan Children and Family Support Center from Save the Children to the State Committee for Family, Women and Children’s Issues of the Azerbaijan Republic... Read More ...
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 Relief Nursery Helps Ukrainian Families at Risk
Sashko, age 6, can count, knows the alphabet, and can write his first and last names. But he is eager to learn more and looks forward to starting school this September... Read More ...
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 Vulnerable Youth Learn to Transform their World
Fourteen-year-old Sanubar was sent away once her family could no longer manage her epileptic seizures. An increasing amount of children in Azerbaijan, like Sanubar, are placed in institutions because their families are unable to cope with their children’s special needs... Read More ...
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 Community Development Expands in Azerbaijan
On March 27-28, CHF held three large scale outreach meetings in two Southern (Yardymly, Lerik) and in one Northern (Balaken) border districts of Azerbaijan under the auspices of USAID’s Community Development Activity... Read More ...
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 Shelter Helps Albania’s Trafficking Victims Re-Build Lives
At the Different & Equal (D&E) shelter, Tirana’s only long-term shelter for trafficking victims, 15-year-old Marta is able to access a personal counselor, resume her education, and learn vocational skills to successfully reintegrate into society... Read More ...
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 Dubrovnik and Monterey Commit to Long-Term Relationship
On February 2, Mayor Dubravka Šuica of Dubrovnik, Croatia and Mayor Chuck Della Sala of Monterey, California signed a Sister City Charter. The signing ceremony was witnessed by Siniša Tatalović, advisor to Croatian President Stjepan Mesić... Read More ...
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 Regional Exchange Promotes Best Social Work Practices
In mid-February, the USAID START Program funded a study tour for nine members of the National Government and Local Commission on Minors from the central, southern and urban regions of Azerbaijan to Kyrgyzstan... Read More ...
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 Shelter Offers Sanctuary, Support to Child Trafficking Victims
Bathed in warm sunlight, the children’s rooms at Another Vision (Tjeter Vizion) offer a sharp contrast to the harsh lives these youths have recently fled. Clean and bright, each room contains two or three wooden beds covered in colorful blankets... Read More ...
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 Imams Join Anti-Trafficking Effort
With funding from USAID to combat human trafficking, the local NGO “Istiqbolli Avlod” and the International Organization for Migration organized a meeting in October with Jizzak Oblast Muslim religious leaders in Uzbekistan... Read More ...
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 Uzbekistan Conference Offers Forum to Discuss Islam, Democracy
A conference on the role of Islam in the development of civil society in Central Asia, co-sponsored by the USAID-funded National Democratic Institute, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Institute for the Study of Civil Society... Read More ...
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 Working Toward Community Integration of Disabled Children
In Azerbaijan, 18 out of 1,000 children are disabled and face discrimination and social exclusion with little or no support for them and their families. Anar Khalilov, a 16-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy is one of these children... Read More ...
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 Saratov Youth Unite Against Family Violence
The Saratov Crisis Center, a former USAID grantee currently celebrating ten years of service, led the city’s participation in the international “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence” campaign from November 25 to December 10... Read More ...
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 Moldovan Youth Find Hope in USAID Social Reintegration Center
In Moldova, young women from disadvantaged backgrounds often fall prey to human traffickers. They are often most susceptible following their graduation from state-sponsored boarding school... Read More ...
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 Public-Private Partnership Feeds Ukraine’s Needy Seniors
Milaniya Achkasova celebrated her 83rd birthday last January. After working for 40 years at a local factory in the city of Kharkiv, she has been retired for about 15 years... Read More ...
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 USAID, IOM Provide Assistance to Enslaved Sailors
Trafficking is not just a young woman’s problem. Men, too, are often forced to labor in construction and agriculture. In 2006, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) provided reintegration assistance... Read More ...
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 Prevention Effort Thwarts Trafficking in Women
Mila, a divorced mother, worked in a Zhytomyr city hospital. On her modest physician’s salary, she supported her 10-year-old daughter and elderly parents. Her income was so small that she barely could make ends meet... Read More ...
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 Primorskiy Kray Fights Human Trafficking
On August 30, the Primorskiy Kray administration and local NGOs, including the USAID-funded Path to Success! program partners, combined forces to host the “STOP Trafficking" Asia-Pacific International Forum... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian NGOs Work to Halt Human Slavery
Over the last few years, counter-trafficking efforts in Ukraine have yielded significant results, including increasing assistance to those affected by this crime... Read More ...
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 Innovative Program in Bulgaria Leaves Sustainable Legacy
The USAID Community Fund and Social Enterprise Program celebrated its successful completion on September 20 at the Radisson Hotel in Sofia... Read More ...
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 Clergy Joins Fight Against Human Trafficking
Religious organizations, considered to be among the most sustainable and influential social institutions in Ukraine, are one of the key links in the powerful chain that links international anti-trafficking efforts... Read More ...
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 “Kosovo Realities”
After the successful launch of the Kosovo Team Reporting (KTR) documentaries, USAID's Support to Peace and Stability Initiative is continuing with "Kosovo Realities", a TV Magazine series produced by multi-ethnic teams of journalists... Read More ...
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 Americans Honored for Service to Albanian Cause
Fifty-six Americans garnered Presidential attention for their dedication and volunteer service to support Albania’s social and economic development... Read More ...
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 Hotline Helps Local Woman Protect Herself
Lyudmyla, a second-year law student, attended a seminar on trafficking in persons held at her university. During the workshop, the organizers – the Rivne-based NGO, Chayka... Read More ...
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 Young Lawyers, Gov’t Team Up to Aid Trafficking Victims
In April 2006, President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili signed the new Law on Fight against Human Trafficking, which introduced new approaches on trafficking in persons... Read More ...
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 Governor of Primory’e Joins NGOs in Fighting Human Trafficking
More than 4,000 people participated in anti-trafficking street fairs in Vladivostok, Artyom, Ussuriysk and Partizansk, as a part of the USAID-funded PATH To Success! program... Read More ...
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 USAID’s Civil Society Partners Celebrate Achievements in Kyrgyzstan
and Turkmenistan
USAID’s Civil Society Support Initiative held a Local Projects’ Fair in Turkmenistan to summarize successes of community development initiatives on June 20th... Read More ...
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 Muslim Religious Leaders Discuss Cooperation in Combating Extremism,
on Social Issues in Central Asia
“The Role of Religion in Promoting Peace and Social Partnerships” conference brought together Islamic religious leaders and government officials from four Central Asian republics from June 8th - 9th... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Girl Rescues Self, Then Siblings From Slavery
Halyna (name changed), 11, lived with her younger brother and sister along with their alcoholic mother and stepfather in a small city in Vynnytsya Oblast... Read More ...
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 Macedonia’s Women Politicians Stir Things Up
When asked about her extraordinary baking skills, Blagorodna Mingova Krepieva replies with a twinkle in her eye... Read More ...
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 Theater for a Change Takes the Fight Against Intolerance to the Streets
On April 30, the Theater for a Change, a USAID-supported partner implementing the Value of Tolerance Program, sponsored an event to celebrate "the Colors of Nizhniy."... Read More ...
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 BiH Families Offer Homes to Children in Crisis
When Halida and Jasmin Avdic applied to become foster parents, they were looking to fill the void created by their daughter’s departure to become an au pair in the U.S... Read More ...
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 Local NGO Helps Trafficked Woman Readjust
Life can change dramatically and in unexpected ways, just ask Lena from Vinnytsia. In 2004, Lena was working as a bartender when she agreed to a radical change of unemployment to assuage her boss... Read More ...
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 U.S. Aid Delivers Lunch and More to Sfanta Macrina Street Children
On March 21, 2006, USAID/Romania Mission Director Rodger D. Garner enjoyed a special break in his busy schedule – sharing lunch and conversation with Father Gabriel Cazacu and the street children of Sfanta Macrina... Read More ...
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 Seventeen Bulgarian Municipalities to Out-Source Social Services
USAID/Bulgaria’s Community Fund and Social Enterprise program, implemented by Counterpart International in partnership with the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-profit Law... Read More ...
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 New Anti-trafficking Program Launched in the Kyrgyz Republic
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) opened a new USAID-funded anti-trafficking program in Kyrgyzstan... Read More ...
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 USAID Relief First to Reach Tajikistan’s Avalanche Victims
During the night of January 31, 2006, snow avalanches struck several villages in the mountainous district of Jirgital, Tajikistan... Read More ...
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 Ukrainians with Disabilities Fight for Rights
According to European statistics, handicapped people generally constitute from 8% to 12% of a society’s population... Read More ...
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 Key to Fundraising: You Have to Ask
When parents of special needs children in Trebinje first heard the proposal to raise money through collection boxes, they were shocked. The idea just seemed too much like begging... Read More ...
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 Training Extends Knowledge of Human Trafficking Issues in Russia
On January 27, 2006, The Center for the Prevention of Social Problems, a recipient of a grant given by the USAID-supported Winrock International Path to Success! Program... Read More ...
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 USAID Program Helps Pensioners and World War II Veterans
As part of civic participation program in Pushchino, Russia, 60 teens volunteered their time to help single pensioners and World War II veterans prepare for winter... Read More ...
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 Ten Years Later, A Montenegrin Community Center Rises from the Ashes
Vujadinovic lives in the picturesque Montenegrin village of Rastovac. His and 12 other villages constitute the area of Vidrovan, a predominantly agricultural district. Residents vividly recall when their former community center... Read More ...
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 Bulgarian Community Leaders Celebrate Philanthropy and Social
Entrepreneurship
On December 5, 2005, USAID sponsored the Fair for Social Change, which promoted projects, partnerships and products with social-added value in Bulgaria... Read More ...
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 USAID Supports Serbian Efforts to Eradicate A “Quiet Killer”
In Serbia, some estimate that domestic violence affects up to half of all women regardless of socio-economic or ethnic status... Read More ...
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 Forty Families in Need Receive New Homes
The Mladenovac municipality, located south of Belgrade, recently awarded 40 renovated apartments to refugees, internally displaced persons, and locally vulnerable residents... Read More ...
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 First Inter-Russian Special-Olympics Equestrian Championship Held in Moscow
The First All-Russia Equestrian Competition (Spartakiada) of Disabled Children and Children with Limited Abilities... Read More ...
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 A Decade After Dayton, Youth Eager to Invest in their Future
More than 530 young people from all over the country gathered together at a U.S. Government-sponsored conference to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords... Read More ...
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Municipal Authorities in Western Serbia Award Local USAID Program
The Western Serbian municipality of Loznica has presented USAID's Serbian Local Government Reform Program (SLGRP) and its implementer DAI Inc. with an award for their contribution... Read More ...
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 American Football Gains Ground in Serbia
Through the USAID-funded Community Revitalization through Democratic Action (CRDA) program, Larry Kentera and Eugene Felker, couches from the United States, spent three weeks in Serbia as volunteers... Read More ...
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 Athletes Flock to Romania for 2005 Special Olympics Friendship Games
Special Olympics Romania played host to the 2005 Special Olympics Friendship Games from September 25-27 in the Black Sea resort city of Constanta... Read More ...
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 Fighting Fires Brings Communities Closer
It was a cloudy afternoon in May when Tane Gorgovski got the call. A large barn was on fire in a small ethnically Albanian village about seven kilometers away from the Krivogashtani volunteer fire department headquarters... Read More ...
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ARO Hosts Conference on Preventing Abandonment of HIV/AIDS Affected Children
The first all-Russia conference to discuss ways to prevent the abandonment of children born to HIV- infected mothers was held in Moscow, July 17-20, 2005s... Read More ...
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 Husband Casts Ukrainian Tradition Aside and Helps Deliver Son
It wasn’t easy getting Nikolai Yarmakov to take part in the birth of his son. Within much of Ukrainian society a lingering attitude exists that a man does not do “female tasks” like making the bed... Read More ...
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 Adventures on the High Seas
Thrown together on the high seas, fourteen Cypriot young people accomplished something that is next to impossible on land—they met, got to know each other... Read More ...
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First Telethon on Child Welfare Issues Co-Sponsored by ARO in Magadan
On International Child Welfare Day, June 1, USAID-funded Assistance to Russian Orphans (ARO) Program, its local partners, the Administration of the Magadan Region... Read More ...
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 Families Open Doors and Hearts to Parentless Children
It’s the middle of the night and 5-year-old Amel is calling frantically for his mother. “Please help me find a place to hide my shoes,” he begs when she arrives... Read More ...
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 Russian Summer Camp Addresses Social Issues
On June 23-30, the All-Russian Showcase “I am a Citizen of Russia” was held at a summer camp on the outskirts of Voronezh and united more than 100 students from 20 regions of Russia... Read More ...
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Youth Activities Inspire Bright Futures for Georgia’s Young Adults
In 2003, a young high school student living with his parents and sister in an economically depressed Georgian city about 50 kilometers outside of the capital... Read More ...
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 Russia’s Regions Work to Expand Foster Care Programs
The Tomsk Oblast Duma has adopted new legislation as a result of more than four years of cooperation with USAID’s Assistance to Russian Orphans (ARO) program... Read More ...
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 Volunteer Exchange Alumna Uses Technology to Promote Social Issues
Anna Vorozheykina, an alumna of the 2004 U.S. Russia Volunteer Initiative (USRVI) program jointly funded by USAID and the U.S. State Department, recently completed a four month project... Read More ...
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 Russian NGOs Stand Up for Disability Rights
The USAID-sponsored disability and human rights NGO Perspektiva organized a demonstration and petition-signing event on June 1 to lobby for equal access to education for children with disabilities. Read More ...
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Shelekhov Town Administration Inspired by Public-Private Partnership
Beginning on April 16, a “Week of Good Deeds” was sponsored by the USAID-SUAL Global Development Alliance (GDA) program in the town of Shelekhov, Irkutskaya Oblast'... Read More ...
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Youth Tolerance Forum Held in Rostov-on-Don
On April 25 and 26, more than 100 youth activists, students, local NGOs, and government representatives from the North Caucasus and other Southern Russia regions gathered in Rostov-on-Don for a forum... Read More ...
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President Bush Meets with Russia’s NGO Leaders
As part of a trip to Moscow to participate in events marking the sixtieth anniversary of victory day on May 9, 2005, President Bush met with civic leaders from 18 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) representing... Read More ...
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Small Towns Appreciate USAID's Anti-Trafficking Activities
As part of an ongoing anti-trafficking outreach program, representatives from the Russian NGO “Club of the Unemployed,” a partner in USAID’s Trafficking Prevention and Information Dissemination (TIPD) program... Read More ...
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Support to Child Welfare Programs Highlighted in Foreign Adoption Debate
Knowledge of foreign adoptions in Russian is common, but few are aware that USAID’s Assistance to Russian Orphans (ARO) program is working with local, regional and federal governments and NGOs... Read More ...
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 New Center Serves Children and Youth with Special Needs
In the west Serbian town of Valjevo live Marija (21) and Darko (18), a sister and brother both with special needs. Marija was institutionalized in Belgrade until she was 18... Read More ...
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 “Greetings from Albania”: Young Artists Compete for Creative Tourism Campaign
On World Tourism Day 2004, the USAID-funded Enterprise Development and Export Market Services project (EDEM) Tourism Cluster launched its “Greetings from Albania” national travel postcard competition... Read More ...
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 Local Government and Business Contribute to Child Welfare Programs in Tomsk
In early March, the USAID-sponsored Assistance to Russian Orphans (ARO) program signed agreements with two regional social administrations and the oil company Vostokgazprom... Read More ...
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 The Parenthood School makes Delivery a “Man’s Business,” Too
Traditionally in Ukraine, women virtually bear sole responsibility for their pregnancy, delivery, and sometimes, even upbringing of their children. Many children only begin to receive their father’s care... Read More ...
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 Radio Singera Keeps a Beat on the Community Pulse
Although only eight months old, Radio Singera can already claim credit for a major scoop: it was the first media outlet to broadcast a demonstration in Chisinau, Moldova... Read More ...
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 USAID Program Helps BiH Returnees Feed Their Families
Traveling to Srebrenica today, it's hard to imagine that 10 years ago the peaceful, bucolic setting was the site of the greatest atrocity in Europe since World War II... Read More ...
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Kosovo Municipality Seeks to Increase Citizen Participation
Implementing simple changes in how public meetings are run has yielded positive results for Podujevë/o Municipality. Recommendations from the USAID Local Government Initiative resident municipal advisor... Read More ...
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 Tolerance for Tots: USAID Funds Regional TV Program for Kids in the Caucasus
On January 29, 2005, the USAID-funded Children’s Tolerance Education project (CTEP) began broadcasting an innovative new television program for children in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan... Read More ...
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 A Stream That Divided Now Joins Communities
A mixed Albanian, Roma and Serbian Kosovar community in Kamenicë/a Municipality dedicated a sewerage and drainage system on January 27, 2005... Read More ...
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 Connecting Kosovo’s Citizens to Municipal Councilors
The Municipal Committee on Policy and Finances in Ferizaj/Urosevac, Kosovo, opened for the public as a result of recommendations drafted by AvoNet, a group of NGOs representing 350 youth and people with disabilities... Read More ...
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 Russian Teens Inspired To Support HIV Services for Those At Risk
Students from Moscow’s Anglo-American School have raised approximately $500 to support the fight against HIV in Russia. The students were inspired to begin a fundraising campaign after 10th and 11th graders... Read More ...
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 USAID Signs New Initiative to Foster Religious Harmony in Albania
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and World Learning, a U.S. based NGO, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on May 20th for the new initiative called “Fostering Religious Harmony in Albania”... Read More ...
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 International Film Festival Celebrates People with Disabilities
On November 11, the second annual International Disability Film Festival "Breaking Down Barriers" opened in Moscow. The Festival ran until November 14 at the Salyut Film Theater... Read More ...
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 Skelani Soccer Tournament: Connecting Divided Communities
The small village of Skelani (BiH) is in the Srebrenica municipality and has approximately 2500 inhabitants. Skelani is located 50 km from the town of Srebrenica and access to the municipal capital is hampered by dirt roads... Read More ...
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