Transforming Lives

Speeches Shim

Every day, all over the world, USAID brings peace to those who endure violence, health to those who struggle with sickness, and prosperity to those who live in poverty. It is these individuals — these uncounted thousands of lives — that are the true measure of USAID’s successes and the true face of USAID's programs.

Three years later, Gombi and communities like it in northern Adamawa state remain devastated. All that’s left of Aisha’s house is a charred heap of collapsed concrete and corrugated tin. Any food is long gone. Farm fields are strewn with debris, and farmers have been left without supplies and equipment.

Access to safe drinking water is critical to a community’s health and livelihood. But in rural Ethiopia, many communities lack such access. Even reaching a source of water can take several hours on foot. And these distant water sources often have to be shared with livestock, resulting in unsafe water.

Najlae Lachkar grew up in Morocco surrounded by the smell of motor oil from her neighbor’s car repair shop. From an early age, she was fascinated by cars and dreamed of some day becoming an auto mechanic.

Residents of cities and rural areas across Liberia are grappling with the lack of a formal waste collection system after enduring years of civil war and the recent Ebola epidemic. Despite some success in removing and processing waste in the city of Monrovia, waste management remains a problem throughout the country today.

Angeline Kobuko, a young woman from the Bana district of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, is the youth president of her community. A strong leader, she represents the voice of the youth at district meetings on pressing issues, such as violence prevention.

The USAID-supported Tékponon Jikuagou Project's five-component intervention package is designed to spark conversations about family planning use, encourage individuals to act on their reproductive intentions, and reduce unmet need for FP among women and men alike.

Sa stanovništvom od kojeg je više od polovine starosne dobi ispod 30 godina, mladi Kosova su sila s kojom treba računati. 

Jul. 2016. god. - Dok je ubrzana izgradnja nakon rata na Kosovu pomogla u povećanju urbanizacije, ona je takođe rezultovala sa mnogim ygradama koje su izgrađene bez dozvole. Ovo je iskompromitovalo tržište nekretnina i doprinelo nesigurnom posedovanju nekretnina jer se objekti bez dozvole ne mogu upisati u katastar ili na zakonit način preneti, koristiti ili zadužiti.

Dieula Rosembert, a grandmother of five, has been selling cacao for as long as she can remember. But the middlemen in Haiti who bought her cacao paid her so little “you could not even buy a loaf of bread with the money!” she exclaimed.  

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