The agreement between American Finance Corp.1 million. Agency for
International
Development (USAID) announced that USAID's Irene Koek, Chair of
the global Stop TB Partnership, will
participate in a live Webcast
highlighting the continuing challenges in the fight against tuberculosis
, as
well as the second Global Plan to Stop TB, recently released on January 27 in
Davos, Switzerland
.
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, The International Foundation for
Education and Self-Help (IFESH) announced today that it has received
an
additional $1. 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.New Chair of the 'Stop TB Partnership' to Speak About the Second
Tuberculosis Global Plan of Action
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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
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today announced that is has
entered into an agreement with Grifco
International (OTC: GFCI) to provide financial and credit advisory
assistance
in connection with Grifco's Lyamec facility. "The Global Plan
provides a clear set
of actions that need to be taken to fight TB, which
exacts a horrific toll each year. Bush's Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief.togo seychelles
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.fre eng
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. Ninety percent of
IFESH employees
in those ten country offices are natives of the countries in
which they work.
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American
Finance Corp. Announces Agreement With Grifco International
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.
The new strategy calls for treating 50 million people
and preventing 14
million tuberculosis deaths worldwide over the next ten years. In fiscal year 2006
, USAID will support
approximately $99 million on international TB efforts.congo libya
Credit facility
and financial processing services to be provided by
American Finance as part of the agreement include
access to 40 Million USD in
export facilities including the sale and merger of Global Oil Tools,
Inc.
Julie Sullivan, CEO and President of IFESH. One of the first steps was to develop a global
plan, which has now
been expanded from 2006 through 2015. As the leading bilateral donor on
DOTS
expansion, USAID currently assists DOTS programs in nearly 40 countries,
including Brazil, Cambodia
, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican
Republic, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria
, Pakistan, the
Philippines, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda.
Since 1998, USAID has
provided more than $408 million to developing
countries to fight tuberculosis.mozambique ndi
Terms
further
provide options which include refinancing and/or the extension of
Global Oil Tools Inc.ethiopia mandate
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This release was issued on behalf of the above organization by
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Estimates place the number of
9-to-12-year-old soldiers in the DRC alone at 30,000.
Over
the past year, USAID has expanded its efforts to promote directly
observed treatment, short-course
strategy (DOTS) for TB control, as well as
efforts to combat TB and HIV co-infection.eng uganda
by Grifco International
will become effective on June 30th,
2005.'s current outstanding obligations.congo benin
, and Grifco International
further calls for structuring, negotiating and effecting all transactions
pursuant to the terms
and conditions set forth in the agreement.com
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."
The Stop TB Partnership was established in 2000 as a global movement to
accelerate
social and political action to stop the spread of TB around the
world.D.sehene angola
The expansion brings the
World Bank's current IFESH
grant for child soldier repatriation projects in the DRC's Northern Katanga
Province to $2. In 2005, the agency
began providing assistance to national TB programs in Mozambique
, Namibia,
Tanzania and Zambia, all countries under President George W.sudan ndi
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.
Sullivan.mandate mauritius
"Each year, nine million new cases of tuberculosis
are diagnosed, and
nearly two million people die from TB," said Koek, Infectious Disease Division
Chief in USAID's Bureau for Global Health, who was elected board chair of the
Partnership in November
2005 and will serve a two-year term. Specifically, USAID provides support to
the Partnership for
country-level mobilization activities, the Global TB Drug
Facility, and development of national Stop
TB partnerships. Other experts on the
panel include Joanne Carter, legislative director of RESULTS;
and Richard
Chaisson, M., director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis.algeria libya
The retention of
American
Finance Corp.
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. Other
components of the Global Plan focus
on development of a rapid diagnostic test
for TB, creation of new anti-TB drugs that would shorten
the course of
treatment, and the availability of a safe, effective and affordable TB vaccine
by
2015.
Today's Webcast is sponsored by Kaisernetwork.benin seychelles
NEW YORK and LONDON, The American Finance
Corp.2 million from the World Bank to expand its child soldier
demobilization and reintegration programs
in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC), Africa.mali botswana
, as
well as Grifco's Jet motor and nozzle
units currently awaiting delivery.
Today's agreement clears the way for distribution in Libya
, Egypt,
Algeria, including Gabon, Congo, Cameroon, Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea, the
Democratic
Republic of Congo, and Cote d'Ivoire, which is currently in
negotiations with The Lyamec Corporation
and Global Oils Tools, Inc. 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. 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
.
USAID is aggressively
working with the international community to achieve these goals
.congo sehene
"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. 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.mandate seychelles
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one
of the largest
populations of child soldiers in the world. The path before us is now set for actions
on the ground and for research that must be done.org.syndicalism cameroon
http://www. The program
relies heavily
on community involvement and consensus building," said Dr.
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.uganda botswana
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