First Lady Michelle Obama visited Liberia, where she held a roundtable discussion with girls and young women, some of whom are enrolled in the USAID Advancing Youth Program, which is managed by EDC.
EDC Vice President Ken Repp, director of the International Office of Sponsored Programs, has been awarded the 2016 Excellence Award in Grants & Contracts by the trade association InsideNGO at its annual conference in Washington, D.C.
The government of Rwanda is working to build a culture of entrepreneurship among its youth, who make up 40 percent of the country’s population. The EDC-implemented Akazi Kanoze project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, is highlighted as one successful effort to provide youth with the skills needed to find employment or create a business.
Despite the fact that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, suicide prevention programs in formal health care settings remain relatively rare.
Zika, HIV/AIDS, Ebola—when infectious diseases approach epidemic status, panic also spreads. And while Jackie Miller understands people’s heightened concerns about global contagion, she says that the panic ultimately does more harm than good.
In this Huffington Post article, Gustavo Payan writes about the dangers of repeating a single, one-dimensional story about a group of people and the damage that story can do.