1 million.
IFESH's effort to aid education in sub-Saharan Africa is not limited to
counseling , skills training, and small business funding for the child soldiers
because even where schools do exist, they are ill equipped -- most lack desks,
chairs or even chalk.

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13., The International Foundation for
Education and Self-Help (IFESH) announced today that it has received an
additional $1.

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The last three years have shown a high degree of concentration of
corporate control of zircon production. Consumption of zircon, zirconia and zirconium metal
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Zirconium mineralogy, occurrence and reserves
3. Since 1987, IFESH has sent more than 800 master
teachers to Africa, built more than 200 of its planned 1,000 schools, and sent
more than $30 million in school and medical supplies to several countries.

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researchandmarkets. Such a shift has taken place before.
While more mineral sands projects at various stages of planning and
development around the world could do much to restore the supply-demand
balance, with a combined potential zircon output of over 500,000tpy, in
practice the outlook is less encouraging.

Countries covered include:
Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile , China, Denmark, Egypt, Falkland Islands, France, Gambia,
Germany, Greenland, Guinea, India, Indonesia , Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Kazakhstan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco ,
Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Saudi
Arabia, Senegal , Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden,
Tanzania, Thailand, UK, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam

Report Contents:

1.
"The World Bank grant to IFESH to expand its child soldier reintegration
program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo signals the organization's
confidence in IFESH's ability to deliver sustainable development initiatives
on the ground.

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Research and Markets: Zircon Prices Continue to Rise as Demand Exceeds Supply

If
zircon production does not increase to meet the expanding demand, prices will
continue to rise to a point where consumers in one or more industries may
switch to using alternative materials.
The key trends, issues and developments in the market are now analysed
this report 'The Economics of Zirconium'. Production and processing of zirconium minerals by country
6.com/reports/c18119

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
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Four
corporate groups now effectively control about three quarters of the world's
zircon supply: Iluka Resources, Rio Tinto, BHP-Billiton and Anglo American.researchandmarkets.

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DUBLIN, Ireland, Research and Markets
(http://www. International trade in zirconium minerals and products
7. Tragically, nearly
70 percent of the children who manage to escape the conflict return to
fighting because they have had no schooling and have no marketable skills.

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The World Bank Awards IFESH an Additional $1.2 Million for Child Soldier Programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Africa

The success of
the IFESH program, which provides real world skills for these young men, was a
major contributing factor in the World Bank grant expansion.

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There is a very real risk that demand for zircon could soon be
substantially greater than global supply. Uses of zirconium chemicals
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Zircon mining, refining and grades
4. The expansion brings the World Bank's current IFESH
grant for child soldier repatriation projects in the DRC's Northern Katanga
Province to $2.
Through the intervention of IFESH and its partners, these children, most of
whom have never experienced anything resembling a normal childhood, will
receive extensive counseling, education, and skills training.

Established in 1981, the International Foundation for Education and
Self-Help (IFESH) continues to uphold the pioneering self-help philosophy and
transcendent message of hope of its founder, the late Reverend Leon H.

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16. Estimates place the number of
9-to-12 -year-old soldiers in the DRC alone at 30,000.

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2 million from the World Bank to expand its child soldier
demobilization and reintegration programs in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC), Africa.

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For more information visit
http://www . Reverend Sullivan's work, which earned him the Presidential Medal
of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, is based on the concept that,
for true sustainable development to occur, principles of self-reliance must be
adhered to and integrated into community projects.

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newscom. The result was a sharp decline in
demand for zircon in refractories that has never been reversed. IFESH will use the added revenues in cooperation
with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to promote the demobilization
and socio-economic reintegration of approximately 2,215 child ex-combatants in
the DRC. Ninety percent of
IFESH employees in those ten country offices are natives of the countries in
which they work.

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Some of the projects, such as
Iluka's developments in Australia, are aimed principally at compensating for
falling output and do not necessarily represent additional supply . The IFESH program in the Congo focuses on training former
child combatants and in providing employment opportunities and counseling for
them, thus reducing the likelihood of their return to conflict.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the largest
populations of child soldiers in the world.

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com/reports/c18119 ) has announced the addition
of The Economics of Zirconium to their offering.

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It has been forecast that the
shortfall could be more than 100,000t in 2005 and some industry observers
believe that, even if all the planned mineral sands projects come into
production over the next ten years, demand will still outstrip supply.
In the mid-1980s raw material shortages and spiraling prices led
manufacturers of refractories in Japan to permanently substitute alumina
spinel for zircon in many applications. In 2001 the twelve largest producers
had a combined output of just over 1Mt, about 80% of the world total.
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, IFESH , employs more than
160 people in Benin, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia,
Ghana , Guinea, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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The program
relies heavily on community involvement and consensus building," said Dr.

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It provides a clear insight into all
areas of the industry and an authoritative analysis of the prospects for the
future. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.
Julie Sullivan , CEO and President of IFESH.

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