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From July 31 to August 8, President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are visiting Clinton Foundation projects in Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Africa. Follow their journey Facebook, on https://twitter.com/ClintonFdn and on http://instagram.com/clintonfoundation.
Bill Clinton ?@billclinton 31 Jul
Just touched down in Africa with @ChelseaClinton. Excited to travel for next 10 days to @ClintonFdn projects. #Africa2013
Chelsea Clinton ?@ChelseaClinton 31 Jul
Excited to be in Malawi with @billclinton! #Africa2013
CGI ?@ClintonGlobal 31 Jul
President @BillClinton & @ChelseaClinton travel throughout Africa over the next week: http://cgilink.org/afr2013 #Africa2013
Clinton Foundation
23 hours ago
Yesterday, President Bill Clinton visited Barclays Clinton Global Initiative commitment, Banking on Change, in Ukonga Ward, Tanzania where he met with community members who have benefited from the program. President Clinton also met with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, where they discussed the Clinton Foundation's work with the government of Tanzania, and increasing opportunity for local farmers through the Foundation's programs.
Today, President Clinton and Chelsea will travel to Zanzibar and learn how the Clinton Health Access Initiative is increasing awareness for malaria testing and visit with Zapha+. #?Africa2013
Read more: http://wjcf.co/16lu9vc
Clinton Foundation shared Clinton Foundation's photo.
Yesterday
On August 3, 2013, President Clinton visits with Zainabu Rashid, the owner of a local beauty salon in Tanzania, and sees how she has been able to expand her business through Barclays CGI Banking on Change commitment. Banking on Change promotes savings-led community finance; community members work together in self-governing groups to save regularly and access small loans from a group fund.
Photo credit: Max Orenstein / Clinton Foundation
On August 3, 2013, President Clinton walks with community members who participate in Barclays CGI Commitment Banking on Change to see how they've benefitted through the program. The project is a microfinance partnership between Barclays and two charities, Plan UK and CARE International UK, that uses a community-led savings model to help people in underserved regions of the world manage their money, access loans, start or expand small businesses, and develop innovative banking products.
Chelsea Clinton shares her thoughts on our blog about her visit with Community Health Assistants yesterday in Zambia. http://wjcf.co/1b2fGXY #?Africa2013
Clinton Foundation
August 1
President Clinton and Chelsea learn Climate Smart Agriculture farming techniques today while visiting our Anchor Farm Project in Malawi. #?Africa2013
The Clinton Foundation runs the Anchor Farm Project in Malawi, which operates five commercial farms that partners with 21,000 neighboring smallholder farmers, providing them with access to quality inputs for maize and soy production as well as training and market access.
Clinton Foundation
July 31
President Bill Clinton reflects on Africa's progress since his first visit to the continent in 1998 and shares stories of how our work is improving lives today. #?Africa2013
Read the story: http://wjcf.co/12GAUL9
How One Community Health Assistant Impacts A Village
Today while in Zambia, President Clinton and Chelsea met Benny Siinyisa, a Community Health Assistant, who is one of two people providing care for a rural community of 6,000 people. Clinton Health Access Initiative Human Resources for Health Program Manager Emily Heneghan Kasoma shares with us what it is like for Benny and other Community Health Assistants to provide care to some of the most rural communities in Zambia.
read more: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/clinton-foundation-blog.html/2013/08/02/how-one-community-health-assistant-impacts-a-village/
President Bill Clinton and Malawian President Joyce Banda greet people outside of Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi on August 1, 2013. President Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and President Banda toured the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) clinic at the hospital, which is providing HIV testing and treatment including Point-of-Care Testing and Early Infant Diagnosis and Treatment.
Following a tour of the Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton meet with expert clients on August 1, 2013. Expert clients are HIV-positive patients who use their experiences to teach others in their community who are recently-diagnosed with HIV how to care for themselves and for their children. Through the Clinton Health Access Initiative's Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission program, these expert clients' children are HIV-negative.
President Clinton and Chelsea visit the Manyemunyemu Clinic, a health post for Community Health Assistants, in Sialwiindi, Zambia on August 2, 2013. The Health Post is a key part of Zambias National Community Health Assistant Strategy, in which all of the countrys existing and planned new health posts will be staffed by Community Health Assistants. Over the next five years, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, with financial assistance from DFID, will support the training of approximately 3,000 Community Health Assistants, totaling about 60% of the total government target of 5,000.
Photo credit: Barbara Kinney / Clinton Foundation
Yesterday in Zambia, President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton visited a health clinic in the Sialwiindi village with Community Health Assistants, who are trained through the Clinton Health Access Initiative and bring health care to some of the most remote communities in Zambia. Later, President Clinton and the delegation visited the Starkey Hearing Foundation, a Clinton Global Initiative commitment maker that is providing hearing-impaired children with hearing aids. Today, President Clinton and Chelsea will be in Tanzania visiting a CGI commitment.
Read our Day 2 recap: http://wjcf.co/14qoW9z
President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton participate in helping the Community Health Assistant give a baby a check-up at the Manyemunyemu health post in Sialwiindi, Zambia on August 2, 2013. The Manyemunyemu health post is a newly built but unfinished structure, where health services have been provided for the past year. The population this health facility serves is over 3,000 people. The two-room health post provides maternal and child health services, administration of vaccines, treatment for non-severe malaria, respiratory infections, & diarrhea, as well as a range of other basic health services to the community.
Photo credit: Barbara Kinney / Clinton Foundation
President Bill Clinton visits Victoria Falls at sunset. #?Africa2013
more photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.412935458827901.1073741830.389051904549590&type=1&l=dd2239fae2
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HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)It's obvious where your head is at.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I mean good god man!
...Oh? you mean... oh!
nevermind...
pscot
(21,024 posts)of course now you'll have to be killed.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)What is your connection to smallholder farmers, as a Clinton Development Initiative field officer?
As a Clinton Development Initiative field officer, I am involved in community mobilization, helping smallholder farmers form small farmers groups. These groups gain the knowledge and motivation to improve their agribusiness and their lives. They also host field days to share with other community members new farming techniques, information about soya, and encourage them to use any opportunity (from casual labor to field days) to improve the way they farm for their own families.
What are the benefits of the program of the commercial farm?
The employees benefit because they earn a living but also get training at the same time. The communities directly around the farm are farming themselves, so they are able to come to the farm to get inputs and learning new farming techniques and work during the harvest season,
What is it like to be a female facilitator in these communities?
I feel like a record-breaker and a pioneer because throughout the countrys history, field officers and extension agents have been men. I also love that I can help women in activities that create economic growth. There are two reactions from men when they see that I work in the soya fields: They either enjoy working with women, finding us to be more trustworthy and reliable, or they still believe that women should be subordinate or remain in home-based roles, not making decisions or leading. These men often still participate, but they sometimes dont like to be seen as relying on women for education.
How long have you worked with soya?
I began working with soya because I saw how important the nutrition-rich food was for mothers and children. Many mothers were taking their children to nutrition rehabilitation centers, which took a lot of time and was expensive. Using soya they could create the same food at home, their children would be healthier, and they wouldnt have to spend time traveling to the rehabilitation centers.
What is the impact of using soya?
Soya agriculture has become popular very quickly because farmers can maximize production of their land by rotating soya and maize. Farmers are now more motivated to go into soya production because they know they can be successful. When farmers used to get 2 bags per acre each bag is 50 kg and now farmers yields are more than 23 kg per acre. Lately, the declining tobacco market has had a big impact on the community. Farmers saw that tobacco prices were stagnant for a long time, while soya prices were steadily increasing.
There is also a big benefit because soya is also a short-term crop it matures quickly, especially relative to tobacco, so women have more time to invest in other activities besides field work. The early harvest lets women use the income from crop sales to diversify nutrition and benefit from price rise by engaging in crop trading! Because they have money early, they buy other crops like beans, consume some, and sell the rest when prices rise. This is increasing their profits even more.
What impacts are you seeing for women from soya?
We often work with mothers learn to feed their children with soya. Mothers with malnourished children learn to prepare the exact product (likuni phala) in their own homes and mothers with healthier children learn to prevent malnutrition by incorporating soya into a balanced diet. These are important lessons because early childhood nutrition plays a large part in their emotional and intellectual development and by keeping their families healthy mothers avoid lost time or money taking family members to the clinic, even worse, spending weeks in the hospital with a seriously malnourished child.
With the extra income made from soyas high yield, women are investing in their homes and are able to send their children to school.
more: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/clinton-foundation-blog.html/2013/08/02/the-benefits-of-soya/
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)beautiful women. She's going to leave her mark for sure. Bill and Hillary must be very proud. She's a lovely young woman, inside and out.
Bill looks great.
Good on them.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)Beacool
(30,251 posts)Whatever can be said about the Clintons, I think that most would agree that they have been great parents. Bill has a look of pure love and pride as he watches Chelsea speak.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)alone whether she pursues that or something else.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts). . . go figure.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)Can't wait to see them in the Whitehouse again.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)Let the good times roll!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)And gt a grip on reality. Sarcasm is met with sarcasm.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)I have a chip on my shoulder and that makes me susceptible to missing sarcasm.
If it was sarcasm, I can only respond with my best Emily Latella, "Never Mind."
mick063
(2,424 posts)someone is wearing a hardhat to "project" safety cultue. Where is the hard hat?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Grade-school sarcasm always comes across as ineffectual without the petulance to project the "I'm onto all of you..." culture. Where is the petulance?
Six of one, half a dozen of the other (insert rationalization here...)
One who considers it worthwhile to respond to grade school sarcasm.
Always happy to find someone at my level.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)a political career?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Thanks, that flower didn't have shit on it yet.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)he MASTER'S DEGREE IN PUBLIC HEALTH.
But I guess haters gotta hate.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)It's such a ludicrous hatred too.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I would not have known they did this otherwise.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)President Clinton looks in terrific shape. He not only has lost weight, looks like he's keeping it off.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)Glad to see their efforts shining a light on impoverished Africa.
Separately, I would really like to see folks like the Clintons and other leaders generate the same level of attention to rural/impoverished South & Appalachia. Dr. King was working on the Poor Peoples' Campaign to bring voices and attention to those who need it here in the USA too.
http://commercial-news.com/local/x1938686980/-War-on-poverty-isn-t-over
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134196/Pictured-The-modern-day-poverty-Kentucky-people-live-running-water-electricity.html
Little Star
(17,055 posts)spent on the rural/impoverished South & Appalachia.
Edit to add: attention also on the native American's who live on reservations like Pine Ridge and others.
We have so much poverty in this country. For shame on us as a nation!
coldmountain
(802 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)I give the 'pukes credit for one thing: they have done a masterful job of convincing poor folks (look the vast majority of "red" counties in Appalachia and rural South) for voting against their own personal interests.
In any event - kudos to the Big Dog and Chelsea for their mission; all I respectfully ask is they bring some of that attention to the poor in the USA (including the Native Americans that a poster notes above)!
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)... for the best 8 years of my life.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Well said!
Little Star
(17,055 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)I'm frankly a little shock he even did that. The whole Bush clan seems immune from compassion, but this little boy with cancer got to GHWB. It's a lovely gesture. Better than painting himself taking a shower.
USA / Latest News Wires
George H.W. Bush shaves head in solidarity with sick child
George H.W. Bush: A statement issued by a Bush spokesman Wednesday says the 89-year-old former president acted earlier this week at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine.
By Associated Press / July 25, 2013
Former US President George H.W. Bush is pictured in Walker's Point, Maine in this July 24, photo after joining members of his Secret Service detail in shaving his head to show support for Patrick, (surname being withheld per family's request), the two year-old son of a detail member who is being treated for cancer and started losing his hair.
http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0725/George-H.W.-Bush-shaves-head-in-solidarity-with-sick-child
1ProudAtheist
(346 posts)That such great people as The Clintons and the Carters are forced to do all of their much needed and much appreciated charity work in foreign countries. Our nation is so full of hateful bastards (some of whom made themselves known in this very thread) that heartfelt charity work cannot be accomplished in this country because of the pettiness and divisiveness of those who are so offended by someone in need receiving the aide and the help that they so much need.
The ACA is a prime example. Taken for it's positive actions to empower policyholders alone, the ACA would be an overwhelming success. But........add in subsidies for the less fortunate and expanding Medicaid for the destitute, and the extremely wealthy, most of whom will only be affected in a most positive way, choose to berate the entire program by dropping turds into the punch bowl. Some people just cannot stand the very thought of someone in need getting the help that they need without having to pay the very same dollar amount for it. Yes, America is full of douchebags, and they seem to enjoy letting everyone know just exactly who they are.
EuroGame
(10 posts)This family is made up of angels. Good people, the husband, the wife and the dauhgter. You can see it in their eyes and their actions. How pathetic that the reich wing gets to call this family 'elitist'. And many other liberals.
Yes, that disgusting man who was your president for 8 years, who's daddy was president and his grandfather a disgusting nazi supporter (prescott Bush) and coup d'etat plotter, is 'down to earth'. Yes, when you can blind 3/4 of a nation, that's who gets to be down to earth, and a good hearted little man like Clinton is an 'elitist'. A man who came from nothing, and became everything. Obama even more so. Obama's election actually was the embodiement of 'the American dream'. Even if that dream is almost a nightmare, here you had a half black man, single mother and grandparents raised him, regular middle class folks, and he becomes president. Like a movie. People would have even said such a movie was unrealistic.
Remember that nazi-supporter's grandson? Who went to Haiti with Bill Clinton to 'help', who, after touching a black Haitian hand WIPED HIS HAND ON CLINTON's shirt? Yes, that's a down to earth guy.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Their new residence lays claim to being one of New York's longest apartments - stretching an entire block from 26th St. to 27th St. off Madison Avenue.
Described as 'a luxury fortress' with one full-time doorman to the horizontal building's four units, it takes almost 30 seconds to walk the 250-foot hallway, according to New York Daily News.
The four-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot apartment is located in The Whitman building next to Madison Square Park, one of the most desirable corners of Manhattan's Flatiron District. The building, which is being marketed by Douglas Elliman Real Estate, has one apartment on each floor and boasts various security features, including a key operated lift and a full time doorman for just four units.
The nearly 90-year-old building has just three $10million homes and one $22.5million duplex penthouse - so far two buyers are in contract, including Ms Clinton.
The couple will also enjoy two dishwashers, two washer/dryers, his and her maze-like closet spaces and commodes, as well as natural light flooding the female dressing room - with double-sided vanity mirrors.
'Wives eyes light up when they see the closets,' said Ms Lazenby, the daughter of James Bond actor George Lazenby.
'They smile and say they'll need more clothes to live here. Their husbands just shake their heads.
'The long apartment, located at 21 East 26th St enables 'one spouse to be fast asleep while the other has a huge dinner party. All on one floor,' she added.
One person who toured the building, which was built in 1924 by luxury textile manufacturer Clarence B. Whitman & Sons, joked that residents of The Whitman will have a longer walk to their kitchen than many New Yorkers have to the corner store.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/madison-sq-park-condo-attracts-big-names-chelsea-clinton-article-1.1324579
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)Just saying a $10.5 million dollar residence at age 33 places one squarely in the elite, at least in the US. What's the cutoff point in the UK?
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)In person or in photos, I just am blown away with the comfort and ease this man has in interacting with any person. Love him or hate him, there will never be another like him. The the daughter has been blessed with the best of both of them I think. Now that is an awesome thought.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)I don't know if Obama will even try to match it, although I'm sure he will look for some kind of public service, like Carter did.
As for Bush Lite, he didn't even pretend to want to try.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Write Books...or die.
I found this exhibition totally disgusting by Clinton. And, what about Clinton's involvement in Haiti. How did that turn out? Now he's following Obama and Bushies to Africa. It's starting to look like a Competition between Clinton and Obama & Bushies over Photo Ops there!
This is the FACE of the Democratic Party for the Future? It's the Clinton Redux for 2016 against Obama/Bush Family Gathering Photo Ops in AFRICA last Month! OMG
I thought this display of promoting Chelsea as the "Heir" to Clinton Legacy was truly OTT!
Beacool
(30,251 posts)WHAT photo Ops???????? Do you even have a remote idea what the Clinton Foundation does and what it means to the lives of thousands in Africa and in other parts of the world? IMO, one of the foundation's greatest achievements has been to negotiate with various drug companies to reduce the cost of ARVs. This has meant that thousands of people who could not have afforded the drugs, and otherwise would have died without treatment, are still alive. The average cost in Africa of the generic version of these drugs was $600 per year per person. The foundation managed to lower the cost to $60 per year.
"The second large-scale strategy involves third-party consultation and price negotiation with generic ARV suppliers, a practice introduced by the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) in 2003. In practice, CHAI attempts to make ARVs more affordable by negotiating price ceilings that reflect suppliers costs plus reasonable and sustainable profit margins. Moreover, CHAI furthers this strategy by providing direct technical assistance to some suppliers to help lower their production costs. The resulting ceiling prices are made available to all members of the CHAI procurement consortium. Countries that wish to become part of the consortium sign a memorandum of understanding with CHAI and manufacturers are required to offer ARVs to these countries at prices equal to or less than CHAI-negotiated ceiling prices."
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/7/08-058925/en/
Here's another article on the subject.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/world/09aidsdrugs.html?_r=0
I find your post so offensive and dismissive of the labor of not just the Clintons, but of the hundreds who work and volunteer at the foundation, that I better stop before I write something really nasty.
DFW
(54,436 posts)I have been with Clinton when he has talked in detail not only about what the foundation and CGI does, but the mistakes made during his administration on the same issues. He said that some charitable things that were initiated while he was in office as official aid, he found out after leaving office could have been done for 4% of the cost. When asked why this wasn't discovered earlier, he answered without hesitation, "because we were stupid, that's why!" That's not the answer of someone who does it for show. That's the answer of someone who cares.
Beacool
(30,251 posts)Some seem to be blinded by hate and will write any nasty thing that pops into their minds, no matter how nonsensical and removed from the truth it may be. This place can be depressing, far too often it seems like a RW site. Read the comments on any Clinton article, some of them could have been written by Freepers.
I could never fill this man's shoes.
What an awesome individual. Glad I can share time of this Earth with the likes of someone as great as the Big Dawg!
Beacool
(30,251 posts)Bill loves to go on these semi annual trips and to have Chelsea with him must have made the trip extra special. Chelsea has turned into such a lovely woman. She's as smart as her parents and has inherited their best qualities. They are both so proud of her.