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One year after Typhoon Yolanda hit, new classrooms built in Bislig Elementary School, on the island of Leyte, are providing children with the opportunity to learn in a clean, safe environment and look forward to a better future.
Infographic: Typhoon Haiyan Aftermath - ADB's Response
Project Result: Classrooms of Hope: Typhoon Yolanda One Year On
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Emergency Assistance and Early Recovery for Poor Municipalities Affected by Typhoon Yolanda
Personnel from U.S. Army Africa's G-4 (Logistics) Mobility section and Italian military load equipment onto U.S. Air Force aircraft at Pisa International Airport. The equipment will support Operation United Assistance in Monrovia, Liberia to help contain an Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa. USAID is the lead U.S. Government organization for Operation United Assistance. U.S. Africa Command is supporting the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations. U.S. Africa Command, through U.S. Army Africa is supporting the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations. (U.S. Army Africa photos by Sgt. 1st Class James Rivera/RELEASED)
Maj. Gen Darryl A. Williams, former commander of Joint Forces Command - Operation United Assistance, and Bill Berger, USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team Leader, speak with representives of the World Health Organization working at the Foya Clinic in Liberia. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the lead U.S. Government organization for Operation United Assistance. U.S. Africa Command supported the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations.(U.S. Army Africa photo by Sgt. 1st Class Will Patterson)
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27 August 2013 - Signing of the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.
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Dr. Darko Nisavic of the Montenegrin emergency medical team gets hoisted up by U.S. Army Sergeant Joseph Campbell from U.S. Army Europe’s Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade onto a UH60A+ medical evacuation helicopter during a humanitarian assistance mission to aid Montenegrins stranded by severe weather Feb. 23. The Soldiers are here as part of a U.S. task force to provide humanitarian assistance at request of the government of Montenegro coordinating with the National Emergency Operations Center and the Montenegrin Ministry of Defense to provide relief and to save lives, homes and infrastructure in response to heavy snowfall. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Lorenzo Ware)
Assistance to Tajikistan for diagnostics of COVID-19
The first part of IAEA donated equipment was delivered to Dushanbe, Tajikistan on 23 September 2020 and transferred to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.
Photo Credit: Nuclear and Radiation Safety Agency
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is dispatching equipment to countries around the world to enable them to use a nuclear-derived technique to rapidly detect the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This emergency assistance is part of the IAEA's response to requests for support from Member States in controlling an increasing number of infections worldwide.
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021413: CBP provided assistance to the disabled Carnival Triumph Cruise Ship assisting with CBP transport to and from the ship, passenger and crew process disembarking, and pier side security.
Photos provided by: Marine Interdiction Agents Tim Korte and Don Severance
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-328
INTERNATIONAL CASH-BASED FOOD ASSISTANCE: USAID Has Developed Processes for Initial Project Approval but Should Strengthen Financial Oversight
Notes: For the chart on the right, the sum of cash and voucher transfer amount to Syria and Syria regional program and cash and voucher transfer amount to other countries/regions may be slightly different from the total value of cash and voucher transfers shown in the chart on the left due to rounding.
a) "Value of food transfers" refers to the approved value of food commodities for distribution; these amounts do not include program costs and operating costs, according to WFP.
b) Cash and voucher transfer amounts reflect the approved value of the cash and vouchers to be received by beneficiaries. These amounts do not include program costs, such as fees paid to banks and vendors, and other operating costs. WFP informed us that the related costs for cash and voucher, including delivery and other charges, amounted to $127 million in 2014. Direct support costs are not calculated based on the transfer modality used, and are thus not included, according to WFP.
As part of Operation United Assistance, the international effort to battle the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, the Airmen of the 123rd Contingency Response Group set up and operated a cargo processing hub that ensured the safe and efficient distribution of supplies to battle the disease that ravaged that area of the world.
I had no idea a mare would use her teeth on the foal's neck to help it stand up for the first time! Wow,amazing!
Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 14 sailors load humanitarian supplies onboard an SH-60F helicopter. HS- 14 is conducting humanitarian assistance and search-and-rescue operations on the eastern coast of Japan in support of Operation Tomodachi.
Naval Air Facility Misawa
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Bradley
Date Taken:03.21.2011
Location:23, JP
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PODGORICA, Montenegro -- Spc. Monique Bumstead a crew chief from U.S. Army Europe’s 1st Battalion 214th Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, works with her Montenegrin partners to load Red Cross supplies for a humanitarian relief mission Feb. 22. The Soldiers are part of the U.S. task force sent to provide humanitarian assistance at request of the government of Montenegro coordinating with the National Emergency Operations Center and the Montenegrin Ministry of Defense to provide relief and to save lives, homes and infrastructure in response to heavy snowfall. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Staff Sgt. Joel Salgado)
Members of a high-level U.S. delegation speak to reporters at a press conference Oct. 1 about their fact-finding tour of Liberia to see firsthand the impact of the Ebola epidemic. The delegation includes Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict Michael D. Lumpkin (seated in the middle at the table) and Director of the Center for Global Health, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Kenyon. The press conference was held at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. USAID is the lead U.S. Government organization for Operation United Assistance. U.S. Africa Command is supporting the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations. (U.S. Army Africa photo courtesy of U.S. Embassy, Liberia/Released)
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-366
FEDERAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE: Individual Assistance Requests Often Granted but FEMA Could Better Document Factors Considered
ᵃFigure includes IA actual obligations made from the time of the declaration to March 2017. In accordance with the Stafford Act, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. See 42 U.S.C. § 5122(4).
Maj. Gen Darryl A. Williams, former commander of Joint Forces Command - Operation United Assistance, and Maj. Gen. Gary J.Volesky, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division and current commander of Joint Forces Command - Operation United Assistance greet Madame Deborah Malac, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, on Barclay Training Center, Monrovia Liberia. The trio joined the President of Liberia on her trip to Foya, Liberia. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the lead U.S. Government organization for Operation United Assistance. U.S. Africa Command supported the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations.(U.S. Army Africa photo by Sgt. 1st Class Will Patterson)
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Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) logisticians listen and take notes during a classroom segment of Uganda ADAPT 2010, a mentoring program conducted in Entebbe, Uganda, that resulted in certifying 25 soldiers as C-130 aircraft load planners.
U.S. Army photo by Gordon Christensen
A U.S. Army Africa (USARAF) organized Africa Deployment Assistance Partnership Team (ADAPT) recently trained, and for the first time ever, certified 25 soldiers of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) as C-130 aircraft load planners in Entebbe, Uganda.
A five-person team, led by Gordon Christensen of Army Africa’s G-4 Mobility Division, completed Phase III training with UPDF soldiers Aug. 27 in Entebbe, Uganda, said John Hanson, chief of the G-4 Policy and Programs Branch.
“This was the first actual air load certification we’ve done, of all the previous ADAPT engagements,” Hanson said. “That’s what makes it unique.”
Two weeks of classroom instruction and hands-on training enabled 25 of 31 students to earn U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command Form 9 certification, significantly augmenting the Uganda land force’s air deployment capability, while developing greater interoperability with U.S. military forces, Hanson said.
The ADAPT program, developed to enhance the force projection capabilities of African militaries, is managed by the USARAF G-4 staff. Its aim is to bridge the gap between limited deployment capacity and the need to provide forces in support of peacekeeping or humanitarian relief operations, Hanson said.
“We’re building capacity for people to deploy, to do their own missions,” he said.
Even when the training doesn’t lead to actual U.S. Air Force certification, as it did this time in Uganda, it contributes to an enhanced deployment capacity for the land force involved, Hanson said.
“That’s the intent. They can’t do the certification, but they can continue to train their own people. Then we back off and they continue to do that,” he said.
The program is a Title 22 tactical logistics engagement funded by the U.S. Department of State, and focuses on African countries that contribute troops to peacekeeping operations, Hanson said.
Training is executed in four installments in order to create a long-term, phased approach to building deployment capacity, Hanson said. Instructors take students from a general orientation to tactical deployment principles to an advanced level of practical proficiency.
Instructors for the UPDF course were sourced using the Request For Forces (RFF) process, Hanson said.
Christensen was accompanied U.S. Army Capt. Jedmund Greene of 21st Theater Support Command’s 16th Sustainment Brigade, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and three Air Force noncommissioned officers: Tech. Sgt. Venus Washington, Robbins Air Force Base, Ga.; Tech. Sgt. Byran Quinn, Pope Air Force Base, N.C.; and Senior Master Sgt. Anthony D. Tate of the Illinois Air National Guard.
“The training helped to strengthen the relationship with our Ugandan partners, and also helped them build a self-sustaining deployment capacity,” Greene said. “I hope 21st TSC can increase its support to USARAF logistics theater security cooperation events in the future.”
Army Africa’s G-4 staff is presently working to synchronize ADAPT with the Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program. A proof of concept joint training was conducted with ACOTA in Rwanda earlier this year, combining tactical- and support-staff training in logistics with the more complex operational techniques of force deployment and mobility, Hanson said.
The Rwanda training demonstrated the feasibility of combining available U.S. government resources to achieve the most efficient and focused effort to advance common foreign policy objectives with U.S. partners in Africa, he said.
To date, ADAPT missions have been funded for eight African countries. Previous training sessions have been conducted in Rwanda, Ghana and Burkina Faso as well as Uganda, and the number is likely to grow in coming years, Hanson said.
“The programs were identified as being of interest to several other countries during the Army Africa Theater Army Security Cooperation Conference, held in Vicenza in August,” Hanson said.
The next planned ADAPT mission is for Phase I training in Botswana, scheduled for the first quarter of 2011, he said.
To learn more about U.S. Army Africa visit our official website at www.usaraf.army.mil
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Assistance from a rather inquisitive black cat is not mandatory! (This is Beaker the cat)...nor is it mandatory to sit in this position!! - I find it comfortable!!
Don't worry!..... he is wearing safety goggles of course! - but you just cannot see them from this angle!! - he was concerned cos they made him look sort of nerdy!! LOL!
(...oh dear - I slipped into another Deric Longden moment there!! )
OSHIMA-MURA, Japan (March 22, 2011) Japanese men unload humanitarian assistance supplies from an SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Black Knights of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 4 embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is operating off the coast of Japan providing humanitarian assistance as directed in support of Operation Tomodachi. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dylan McCord/Released)
The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya hosted a Joint Readiness Exercise (JRE) which included several partner units trained and equipped by the Antiterrorism Assistance Program, Nairobi, Kenya, October 30, 2021,
This was the sixth JRE exercise in Kenya, and highlighted the Diplomatic Security Service and ATA-trained Kenya Special Program for Embassy Augmentation Response (SPEAR) team and the ATA-mentored Crisis Response Team, as well as members of the ATA-mentored Bomb Disposal Unit and unmanned aerial system support by the ATA-mentored Border Police Unit. Members of Kenya’s parliament were among the observers.
The exercise included two near-simultaneous attacks at the U.S. Embassy and the Rosslyn Academy, a nearby private school with ties to the diplomatic community.
The JRE involved more than 300 participants, including approximately 120 Kenyan law enforcement personnel. Other participants included Kenyan security, school officials, personnel from the U.S. Embassy, hospital personnel, representatives of the British High Commission, and Kenyan medical first responders, including approximately 15 Kenyan ambulances. ATA also provided eight safety observers.
U.S. Air Force personnel unload supplies and equipment from a C-17 in Liberia in support of Operation United Assistance and the fight against Ebola. The U.S. Agency for International Development is the lead U.S. Government organization for Operation United Assistance. U.S. Africa Command is supporting the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations. (U.S. Army Photo by Pfc. Craig Philbrick.)
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) assists severe flood recovery in South Carolina by setting up a procesing center at the First Baptist Church gymnasium in Monks Corner, SC, to help eligable people of this county, on Nov. 17, 2015.
In times of emergency, FNS coordinates with state and federal partners, as well as local volunteer organizations, such as the American Red Cross and Salvation Army, to provide USDA Foods to shelters and other mass feeding sites and, in limited cases, distribute food packages directly to households in need. USDA Foods are 100% domestically produced, processed and procured agricultural commodities that are made available to schools, tribes, and low-income individuals through FNS Nutrition Assistance Programs. Once retail food stores reopen, if survivors still need nutrition assistance and the area has received a ‘Presidential Disaster Declaration with Individual Assistance,’ State agencies may request to operate D-SNAP. People who may not normally qualify for nutrition assistance benefits may be eligible for D-SNAP if they had disaster-related expenses, such as loss of income, damage to property, relocation expenses, and, in some cases, loss of food due to power outages. Those already participating in the SNAP may be eligible for supplemental benefits under D-SNAP. For more information please visit this web site: www.fns.usda.gov/disaster. USDA photos by Lance Cheung.
With financial assistance from my mom, I was able to reduce my student loan a bit more by March 2013, down to -$42,881.
This picture is from the blog posting "family assistance:" facingstudentloans.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/family-assist...
Capt. Jedmund Greene (far right, back row), 21st Theater Support Command, 16th Sustainment Brigade, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, watches Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) logisticians practice palletizing techniques during a hands-on segment of Uganda ADAPT 2010, a mentoring program conducted in Entebbe, Uganda, that resulted in certifying 25 soldiers as C-130 aircraft load planners.
U.S. Army photo by Gordon Christensen
A U.S. Army Africa (USARAF) organized Africa Deployment Assistance Partnership Team (ADAPT) recently trained, and for the first time ever, certified 25 soldiers of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) as C-130 aircraft load planners in Entebbe, Uganda.
A five-person team, led by Gordon Christensen of Army Africa’s G-4 Mobility Division, completed Phase III training with UPDF soldiers Aug. 27 in Entebbe, Uganda, said John Hanson, chief of the G-4 Policy and Programs Branch.
“This was the first actual air load certification we’ve done, of all the previous ADAPT engagements,” Hanson said. “That’s what makes it unique.”
Two weeks of classroom instruction and hands-on training enabled 25 of 31 students to earn U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command Form 9 certification, significantly augmenting the Uganda land force’s air deployment capability, while developing greater interoperability with U.S. military forces, Hanson said.
The ADAPT program, developed to enhance the force projection capabilities of African militaries, is managed by the USARAF G-4 staff. Its aim is to bridge the gap between limited deployment capacity and the need to provide forces in support of peacekeeping or humanitarian relief operations, Hanson said.
“We’re building capacity for people to deploy, to do their own missions,” he said.
Even when the training doesn’t lead to actual U.S. Air Force certification, as it did this time in Uganda, it contributes to an enhanced deployment capacity for the land force involved, Hanson said.
“That’s the intent. They can’t do the certification, but they can continue to train their own people. Then we back off and they continue to do that,” he said.
The program is a Title 22 tactical logistics engagement funded by the U.S. Department of State, and focuses on African countries that contribute troops to peacekeeping operations, Hanson said.
Training is executed in four installments in order to create a long-term, phased approach to building deployment capacity, Hanson said. Instructors take students from a general orientation to tactical deployment principles to an advanced level of practical proficiency.
Instructors for the UPDF course were sourced using the Request For Forces (RFF) process, Hanson said.
Christensen was accompanied U.S. Army Capt. Jedmund Greene of 21st Theater Support Command’s 16th Sustainment Brigade, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and three Air Force noncommissioned officers: Tech. Sgt. Venus Washington, Robbins Air Force Base, Ga.; Tech. Sgt. Byran Quinn, Pope Air Force Base, N.C.; and Senior Master Sgt. Anthony D. Tate of the Illinois Air National Guard.
“The training helped to strengthen the relationship with our Ugandan partners, and also helped them build a self-sustaining deployment capacity,” Greene said. “I hope 21st TSC can increase its support to USARAF logistics theater security cooperation events in the future.”
Army Africa’s G-4 staff is presently working to synchronize ADAPT with the Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program. A proof of concept joint training was conducted with ACOTA in Rwanda earlier this year, combining tactical- and support-staff training in logistics with the more complex operational techniques of force deployment and mobility, Hanson said.
The Rwanda training demonstrated the feasibility of combining available U.S. government resources to achieve the most efficient and focused effort to advance common foreign policy objectives with U.S. partners in Africa, he said.
To date, ADAPT missions have been funded for eight African countries. Previous training sessions have been conducted in Rwanda, Ghana and Burkina Faso as well as Uganda, and the number is likely to grow in coming years, Hanson said.
“The programs were identified as being of interest to several other countries during the Army Africa Theater Army Security Cooperation Conference, held in Vicenza in August,” Hanson said.
The next planned ADAPT mission is for Phase I training in Botswana, scheduled for the first quarter of 2011, he said.
To learn more about U.S. Army Africa visit our official website at www.usaraf.army.mil
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Official YouTube video channel: www.youtube.com/usarmyafrica
Throughout the week of March 8-12, 2010, U.S. based NGO Samaritan’s Purse continued its distribution of relief/recovery goods to Samoan communities affected by the September 2009 Tsunami.
The Samaritan’s Purse Samoa Tsunami Project is part of on-going U.S. Government assistance. Samaritan’s Purse were awarded a USD $500,000 (WST $1.259 million) grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), to distribute tsunami relief/recovery non-food items to affected communities in the Independent State of Samoa. Samaritan’s Purse has partnered with local NGO and church based groups such as the Apia Protestant Church, Rhema Bible School and other volunteer groups in the country. The organization also coordinated efforts with the Disaster Management Office (DMO) and Samoa Red Cross Society to access information identifying the total number and names of families whose homes and possessions were affected directly by the September tsunami.
After the initial USAID assessment, members of Samaritans Purse flew into Samoa in early October 2009 to plan this project. As soon as DMO and Red Cross identified affected families, the first set of goods (hygiene kits and other items of immediate need) were distributed in early November—this was followed by two additional rounds with the second and third distribution including other items of use at that time, such as mats, linens, tools, wheelbarrows, lanterns, etc.; the March 8-12 goods distribution will be the final distribution to affected families, and came because the organization was able to stretch the original dollars further than expected.
Packages including mosquito nets, kerosene burners and kerosene supply, axes, spades, shovels, picks, machetes, kerosene lanterns, plates and cups, buckets, nails, hammers and mats, among other items were distributed directly to household members. Most of the goods distributed were purchased locally from hardware and supermarkets in Samoa.
For the current distribution of goods, Samaritans Purse identified 300 families in 26 villages including Aleipata (Utufa’alalafa, Saleaumua, Mtiatele, lotopue, Malaela, Satitia, Ulutogia, Vailoa, Lalomanu, Saleapaga, Lepa, Lotofaga) to Falealili (Matatufu, Sapoe, Utulaelae, Salani, Salesatele, Sapunaoa, Satalo, Tafatafa) Siumu area (Siumu I Sisifo, Tafitoala, Sataia, Saanapu) Manono Island and south west Upolu (Manono Uta, Samatau, Siufaga, Matafaa, Lepuiai, Faleu, Apai) and Savaii (Satupaitea—Pitonuu and Mosula) to receive assistance.
U.S. Embassy Apia Chargé Yeager stated that the benefit of the USAID grant through the work of Samaritans Purse is the United States Government’s continued commitment to provide relief to victims of the disaster that affected Samoa. The donations made by the U.S. Government to the Government of the Independent State of Samoa, to local NGOs and to Samaritan’s Purse for work in Samoa, as well as the arrival of tons of goods sent by caring Americans, and organized by the Samoan communities in the U.S. over the past 6 months are all a reflection of the humanitarian sprit and concern for the people of Samoa from the people of the United States.
“Our work in Samoa has been rewarding, from volunteers, local business to the families, everyone has been great and grateful,” said Paul Murphy of Samaritans Purse. “The helpfulness of the people has ensured the success of our job, we are having fun--being the Santa Clauses giving out gifts and seeing the smiles on people’s faces”. Samaritan’s Purse is an American NGO formed by Rev. Franklin Graham, son of famed religious figure Rev. Billy Graham.
Rev. Nuuausala Siaosi of the Apia Protestant Church has been a key member in the distribution, serving as the project’s main liaison and protocol advisor. Rev. Siaosi has been with the project and at every site from the beginning along with youth from his congregation who have all tirelessly volunteered their time. Rev Siaosi states “it is a privilege to distribute goods with Samaritan’s Purse and it’s been a privilege to be part of the countrywide help for affected tsunami families. God bless the American people for these gifts.”
Taofi Tupufia of Manono Uta was grateful when her family was given household supplies , she said “God bless the good people of America, we will not forget this kindness”. This was further echoed by Lavea Talaia of Samatau who thanked the American people for the gifts, “which will help us in the rebuilding of homes, families and communities.”
Samaritan’s Purse’s work in Samoa will wind down towards the end of this month after the distribution of 362 air horns to villages as part of a national tsunami warning system. Purchased through additional USAID funds the project will be jointly organized and distributed with help from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Disaster Management Office.
---United States Embassy Apia, Samoa--- samoa.usembassy.gov
In June, Emergency Medical Teams from Italy and Germany were sent to Armenia via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism to provide medical assistance.
In August, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism coordinated the deployment of another Italian Emergency Medical Team to support local health authorities in Azerbaijan, made up of 6 medical experts who spent 2 weeks helping the coronavirus response.
© European Union, 2020
to submit a patent to fix the annoying habit of this dial moving by its own accord.
I keep finding that its never where it was left after removing it from a case or my pocket.
NIAMEY, NIGER - Flags of the 20 nations participating in Flintlock 2018 wave in the wind at the exercise’s Joint Multinational Headquarters in Agadez, Niger, April 15, 2018, as a senior official with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) (left) confers with a Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) advisor. The Department’s Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) Program, which receives funding and policy guidance from CT and is implemented by DSS, trained and assisted partner law enforcement agencies throughout the counterterrorism exercise. (U.S. Department of State photo)
Assistance to Venezuela for diagnostics of COVID-19
IAEA donated equipment was delivered to the Biomolecular Laboratory of the Hygiene National Institute Rafael Rangel, Venezuela. 30 July 2020.
Photo Credit: Fra. Zenia Monsalve, Hygiene National Institute
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is dispatching equipment to countries around the world to enable them to use a nuclear-derived technique to rapidly detect the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This emergency assistance is part of the IAEA's response to requests for support from Member States in controlling an increasing number of infections worldwide.
Road Assistance Vehicle
Emertech Project Bodywork
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The next generation of these vans has high-visibility chevrons on the side, front and back - making the vehicles much more visible, thus providing safety for the crews.
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Residents of Sandwip Island, Bangladesh, carry a sack of rice dropped for them by a U.S. helicopter. Following a devastating cyclone that may have killed over 125,000 people, the United States diverted some of its forces from the Persian Gulf to help in relief efforts. 15 May 1991 [Helicopter][Foreign Nationals][Humanitarian assistance]
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9 August 2012. Kutum: A man and a woman from Kassab camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), in Kutum (North Darfur), wait to be examined by doctors.
The civilian population in Kutum received today the first humanitarian assistance since the area was attacked on 1 August. A school in the surroundings of the village has been used as a provisional medical center.
A medical team formed by UNAMID, World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health of North Darfur assisted about 200 people, mostly women and children with injuries from the attacks and other kind of diseases due to the lack of food and potable water.
The series of incidents began on 1 August when the Commissioner of the district of Alwaha, in Kutum town, and his driver were shot dead and his vehicle was carjacked by three unknown armed men. Later in the day, the official’s vehicle was recovered by Government of Sudan security agents 2 kilometres from the Kassab internally displaced persons (IDP) camp.
Subsequently, on the same day armed men surrounded Kassab, looted the market, burnt down the Sudanese Police post in the camp and reportedly killed four persons (three civilians and one police officer) and injured six others.
Similar events leading to the deterioration in the security and humanitarian situation occurred the following days in and around Kutum town, Kassab and Fataborno IDP camps, including fighting between the armed elements and Government Forces, as well as looting and displacement of civilians.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) logisticians load palletized material during a hands-on segment of Uganda ADAPT 2010, a mentoring program conducted in Entebbe, Uganda, that resulted in certifying 25 soldiers as C-130 aircraft load planners.
U.S. Army photo by Gordon Christensen
A U.S. Army Africa (USARAF) organized Africa Deployment Assistance Partnership Team (ADAPT) recently trained, and for the first time ever, certified 25 soldiers of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) as C-130 aircraft load planners in Entebbe, Uganda.
A five-person team, led by Gordon Christensen of Army Africa’s G-4 Mobility Division, completed Phase III training with UPDF soldiers Aug. 27 in Entebbe, Uganda, said John Hanson, chief of the G-4 Policy and Programs Branch.
“This was the first actual air load certification we’ve done, of all the previous ADAPT engagements,” Hanson said. “That’s what makes it unique.”
Two weeks of classroom instruction and hands-on training enabled 25 of 31 students to earn U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command Form 9 certification, significantly augmenting the Uganda land force’s air deployment capability, while developing greater interoperability with U.S. military forces, Hanson said.
The ADAPT program, developed to enhance the force projection capabilities of African militaries, is managed by the USARAF G-4 staff. Its aim is to bridge the gap between limited deployment capacity and the need to provide forces in support of peacekeeping or humanitarian relief operations, Hanson said.
“We’re building capacity for people to deploy, to do their own missions,” he said.
Even when the training doesn’t lead to actual U.S. Air Force certification, as it did this time in Uganda, it contributes to an enhanced deployment capacity for the land force involved, Hanson said.
“That’s the intent. They can’t do the certification, but they can continue to train their own people. Then we back off and they continue to do that,” he said.
The program is a Title 22 tactical logistics engagement funded by the U.S. Department of State, and focuses on African countries that contribute troops to peacekeeping operations, Hanson said.
Training is executed in four installments in order to create a long-term, phased approach to building deployment capacity, Hanson said. Instructors take students from a general orientation to tactical deployment principles to an advanced level of practical proficiency.
Instructors for the UPDF course were sourced using the Request For Forces (RFF) process, Hanson said.
Christensen was accompanied U.S. Army Capt. Jedmund Greene of 21st Theater Support Command’s 16th Sustainment Brigade, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and three Air Force noncommissioned officers: Tech. Sgt. Venus Washington, Robbins Air Force Base, Ga.; Tech. Sgt. Byran Quinn, Pope Air Force Base, N.C.; and Senior Master Sgt. Anthony D. Tate of the Illinois Air National Guard.
“The training helped to strengthen the relationship with our Ugandan partners, and also helped them build a self-sustaining deployment capacity,” Greene said. “I hope 21st TSC can increase its support to USARAF logistics theater security cooperation events in the future.”
Army Africa’s G-4 staff is presently working to synchronize ADAPT with the Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program. A proof of concept joint training was conducted with ACOTA in Rwanda earlier this year, combining tactical- and support-staff training in logistics with the more complex operational techniques of force deployment and mobility, Hanson said.
The Rwanda training demonstrated the feasibility of combining available U.S. government resources to achieve the most efficient and focused effort to advance common foreign policy objectives with U.S. partners in Africa, he said.
To date, ADAPT missions have been funded for eight African countries. Previous training sessions have been conducted in Rwanda, Ghana and Burkina Faso as well as Uganda, and the number is likely to grow in coming years, Hanson said.
“The programs were identified as being of interest to several other countries during the Army Africa Theater Army Security Cooperation Conference, held in Vicenza in August,” Hanson said.
The next planned ADAPT mission is for Phase I training in Botswana, scheduled for the first quarter of 2011, he said.
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A flourishing practice at an orphanage. Thousands of children have been left homeless, without knowledge of their parents. Dental treatment by Navy dental officers, easing, at least, their pain from teeth. Disposable needles are used. [Children[[Foreign Nationals][Religion][Dentist][Dental Assistant][Dental Technician][Equipment and Supplies][Vietnam War]
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Pallets of USDA Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) commodities wait on the Houston Food Bank commodity warehouse shelves for movement to packing lines or delivery to food pantries; pallets in the aisles are loaded with disaster assistance packages (those with orange wrapping have USDA Foods in them), and are ready for delivery or distribution to those in need, in Houston, TX, on September 22, 2017.
Houston Food Bank Operations Associate Director Marly Maskill provided the following information; in general, the food bank usually receives approximately 10 trucks per day and distributes approximately 230,000 meals per day; in response to Hurricane Harvey, the food bank has been receiving approximately 30 trucks per day and distributing approximately 500,000 meals per day.
Maskill continues, “FY17 we received over 23.7M lbs of USDA Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) commodities. Their products are mostly shelf stable commodity items, but also frozen meat, produce, eggs & cheese. We distribute this product to our agencies directly & in our backpacks & share your holiday boxes. In response to Harvey, the USDA allowed us to use the TEFAP product we already had in inventory to support disaster relief. Any client who is not on disaster SNAP is eligible to receive this product. The USDA has been actively communicating & working with us to make sure our needs have been met. They've also committed to replenishing the product that is distributed for disaster response so our clients who generally receive this product don't have to go without.”
USDA Foods include The FNS Food Distribution Programs' mission is to strengthen the Nation's nutrition safety net by providing food and nutrition assistance to school children and families and emergency food assistance programs; and support American agriculture by distributing high quality, 100% American-grown USDA Foods.
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) is a Federal program that helps supplement the diets of low-income Americans, including elderly people, by providing them with emergency food and nutrition assistance at no cost. It provides food and administrative funds to States to supplement the diets of these groups. For more information please go to www.fns.usda.gov/tefap/emergency-food-assistance-program-... USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
15 December 2014 - Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD speaking at the opening of theDevelopment Assistance Committee (DAC) High-Level meeting. OECD, Paris, France.
For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/dac/dac-hlm.htm
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Hon. Brownie Jeffrey Samukai Jr.,minister of defense, talks with Madame Deborah Malac, U.S. Ambassador to LIberia, and Brig, Gen. Daniel Ziankahn Jr., Armed Forces of Liberia Chief of Staff, on Barclay Training Center.The three joined President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, presidenf of Liberia on her trip to Foya, Liberia. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the lead U.S. Government organization for Operation United Assistance. U.S. Africa Command supported the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations.(U.S. Army Africa photo by Sgt. 1st Class Will Patterson)
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An Armed Forces of Liberia honor guard fires a volleys over the interment site of the fallen AFL healthcare workers. Seven AFL healthcare workers died after contracting the Ebola virus from patients in their care at an AFL clinic. A letter of condolence from Maj. Gen. Darryl A. Williams was read at the memorial service attended by AFL soldiers and families of deceased. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the lead U.S. Government organization for Operation United Assistance. U.S. Africa Command supported the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations. (U.s. Army Africa photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Corbett/Released)
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Sgt. Joseph Campbell from U.S. Army Europe’s Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment hoists Montenegrin emergency medical team member Dr. Darko Nisavic onto a 1-214th UH60A medical evacuation helicopter during a humanitarian assistance mission to aid Montenegrins stranded by severe weather Feb. 23, 2012. (Photo by Spc. Lorenzo Ware)