NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - - In response to the drought and famine , the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with the Ad Council to launch a national public awareness campaign. The campaign will encourage Americans to spread awareness of the crisis, support the humanitarian organizations conducting the relief operations, and learn more about the solutions through President Obama's Feed the Future initiative to prevent these types of disasters from happening again. USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah will formally announce the campaign, titled FWD, this afternoon at Mashable's 2nd Annual Social Good Summit in New York. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091022/USAIDLOGO)
Campaign featuring Uma Thurman, Geena Davis, Josh Hartnett and Chanel Iman premieres at the White House NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is joining the Ad Council to launch a national public awareness campaign. The campaign encourages Americans to spread awareness of the crisis, support the humanitarian organizations conducting the relief operations, and learn more about the solutions through President Obama's Feed the Future initiative. The campaign is titled FWD, or famine, war and drought, which is an acronym for the three crises affecting the Horn. USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah is unveiling the campaign at the White House this afte...
NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for the holiday season, a time when charitable giving increases, NFL players have joined FWD, a national public awareness campaign designed to inform Americans of the extreme famine, war and drought in the Horn of Africa. Developed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ad Council, the FWD campaign encourages Americans to forward the facts about the crisis and to donate to the relief efforts. To view the multimedia assets, please click: http:// www.multivu.com/mnr/53516-ad-council-horn-of-africa-relief-usaid
LEWISTON -- Only those who have lived in refugee camps on the Horn of Africa know what it's like, and they have a special responsibility to help, said Dr. Abdifatah Ahmed of Atlantic Global Aid. A lot of Somali Americans, the Somali diaspora, are going back," Ahmed said. "We are not waiting for the U.N. or the Red Cross to get back and help. It is our responsibility as the Somali diaspora to take the lead and help show the world.
More importantly [Hugh Masekela]'s one of the great musicians of our lives. Pushing 70, with patina on his trademark gravelly voice, he's Afropop's grand old man and still wailin' like nobody elsa Over the years he's layered his original South Africa sound with a blazing array of soul and Afrobeat motifs. On his latest album, Revival (2005), several tracks get a kwaito kick, with help from the new generation of South African musicians, while Masekela keeps up his purest oldschool style with the mightily inspirational "Ibala Lam." This is the people's music, and Masekela was born to play it. Masekela spent a decade in the States. In '64 he married [Miriam Makeba], who divorced him two years later to tie the knot with Black Panther Stokely Carmichael. Masekela picked up every American idi...
-- Fundraising lags even as famine conditions spread, aid agency warns -- Congress threatens disproportional cuts to global humanitarian programs, needed now more than ever
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