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Letter from Nepal
March 8, 2007
Kellea Miller
Namaste. I am writing to you from Kathmandu, where Kavita and I are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Tewa, Nepal's first and only women's fund and a grantee partner of the Global Fund for Women.
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Bonjour du Senegal
October 28, 2004
Marlene Dehlinger
Dear Everyone,
Greetings from Senegal! This message might not be that long because they use funny French keyboards here where the letters are all switched around which makes it hard to type. But I wanted to say hello to you all :) At the moment, I am in Dakar, staying with the family who I lived with when I studied abroad here two years ago: my host mom and dad, 6 of their children, the oldest son's wife and her child, my host father's older sister, her son (the two of them are just visiting for the month), and a cousin who has lived with the family since his father died when he was young. It's almost impossible to spend a moment alone.
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Africa Team in Mozambique
October 20, 2004
Muadi Mukenge
Hi Everyone,
It's been a whirlwind 2 weeks! Our schedule has been packed with site visits. Last week we had 4 all-day site visits. We went to a town 2 hours south of Addis Ababa where our grantee Progynist has built schools and a health center with GFW funding. The landscape in that area is just beautiful but families engage in subsistence agriculture that's insufficient to alleviate the deep levels of poverty. In both Kenya and Ethiopia women's groups indicated that they are overwhelmed with the need to take care of orphans. One of the schools we visited in Ethiopia includes a small daycare for orphans. In fact, increasingly many of the proposals we receive include a component on orphan care.
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Kisumu, Kenya
October 16, 2004
Caitlin Stanton
We've been having an amazing couple of days in Nairobi and Kisumu. In Nairobi, which doesn't feel as big of a city as it is, because it is divided into distinct neighborhoods, we traveled about an hour outside of the city to visit a rural secondary school for girls. We spent a rich afternoon just talking with the girls about their lives, their boyfriends, their hopes and plans- one of the big problems for girls in Kenya is that the schools don't have adequate bathrooms, or have one pit toilet that is shared by boys and girls, this is coupled with very limited access to sanitary pads-- so they feel embarrassed to go to school when they have their periods, so tons of girls are missing a week of school each month, when it really wouldn't cost government/aid agencies that much to remedy the situation. Almost every grantee we have visited in Kenya has asked to add a line item to their proposal budgets for the provision of sanitary pads to girls (of course, this is case in point the reason for general support funding!)
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Hello From Ethiopia
October 10, 2004
Muadi Mukenge
Hi everybody!
Greetings from Ethiopia! Hopefully this time the computer won't eat my message -- I wrote a beautiful update last Thursday that disappeared when I hit send.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
October 8, 2004
Caitlin Stanton
Warmest greetings from Addis Ababa (where it actually a bit cold and rainy, but warm greetings none the less!) I know Muadi and Marlene will be writing too, and I hope I won't duplicate too much or bore you or anything, but I just wanted to share a few quick thoughts from Beijing +10 Africa.
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Global Fund Grantees in the Tsunami Region
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On the Ground: No Stability
News from Afghanistan by a former Peace Corps Volunteer
August 2003
In two years, I have not felt the sense of urgency about the political and security situation that I have begun feeling this week. If the ongoing degradation in the security situation is allowed to continue, the result will almost certainly be a durable disillusionment with the US presence here.
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