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FrontLines

May 2010

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Welcome to FrontLines, the news publication of the U.S. Agency for International Development. FrontLines features articles about USAID; international development and humanitarian assistance efforts around the world; and the people who are dedicated to these efforts. It is produced monthly and distributed electronically and in print to over 32,000 subscribers. If you’d like to subscribe to the print version of FrontLines, please send your request to frontlines@usaid.gov or fill out the subscription form . To subscribe to the electronic version, please use the “Subscribe” box to the right of this page.

Contents

Front Page

This Afghan man is learning business skills as women train for construction jobs and the Internet reaches more schools.

• At Town Hall, Shah Launches Policy Office, First Lady Hails Agency
  At his first Town Hall meeting with USAID employees May 5, Administrator Rajiv Shah said USAID will establish a policy and budget office while first lady Michelle Obama thanked the Agency for �inspiring� work overseas.
• U.S. to Help Muslim Entrepreneurs
  The Obama administration announced in April that USAID will help new business owners launch ventures in Egypt and other mainly Muslim countries.
• WFP Head: Hunger Leads to 'Dangerous World'
  One person out of six in the world is in a state of chronic hunger, said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), which gets 40 percent of its funding from USAID.

Inside Development/Dialogue

• Interview with Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams
• Brazil's Youth Gain Employability
• Insights From Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah

Global Developments

• Briefs
• Frontlines: Mays Past
• U.S.-Swedish Development Agencies Agree to Back Loans
• After 25 Million Deaths, Search Continues for HIV Vaccine
• U.S. Expands Anti-Malaria Effort in Africa

The Regions

• Jamaica Fights Gangs and Violence Island-wide
• Web Training Connects Thousands of Displaced Eurasians
• Pakistani Traders Recover From Bomb Fire
• Job Training Transforms Unemployed Moroccan Women
• Scholarships Support Girls' Education in Angola

Global Developments

• Men Key to Reducing Maternal Deaths in Developing Countries
• Adviser Brings Experience from Iraq to Afghanistan

Spotlight on Afghanistan

• Internet Access Lights Up Jalalabad
• Afghan Women Break into Construction Work

"I realize that there are among us those who are weary of sustaining this continual effort to help other nations. But I would ask them to look at a map and recognize that many of those whom we help live on the 'front lines' of the long twilight struggle for freedom—that others are new nations posed between order and chaos—and the rest are older nations now undergoing a turbulent transition of new expectations. Our efforts to help them help themselves, to demonstrate and to strengthen the vitality of free institutions, are small in cost compared to our military outlays for the defense of freedom."
—John F. Kennedy, Special Message to the Congress on Foreign Aid, March 13, 1962

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Correspondents:

AFGE – Willy Hardin; AFR – Susan Quinn, Ranta Russell; AFSA – Francisco Zamora;
ASIA – Jan Cartwright; CFBCI – Heather MacLean; DCHA – Rebecca Gustafson, Sven Lindholm, Amanda Eichelkraut;
EGAT – Jane Stanley, Ashley Allen; E&E – Michael Hathaway; EOP – Gloria Blackwell; GC – Harmony Wade ;
ODP – Todd Kirkbride; GH – Sandra Jordan, Chris Thomas, Jessica DiRocco;
IG – Debra Scott; LAC – Maxine Hillary; LPA – Barbara Bennett;
M – Lauren Gabler; ME – Hope Bryer, Jan Cartwright; SEC – Dwayne Moore, Lorraine Meehan

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