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CHF International 2010 Annual Report: Partnership The 2010 edition of Building a Better World, our Annual Report, is now available. This year’s report has as its theme a core value that has guided CHF through nearly 60 years of successful operations: ‘Partnership’. It focuses on the many partnerships in action with governments, corporations, NGOs and,…

Haitian President Michel Martelly Inaugurates Model Market PHOTO: President Michel Martelly (center) officially opens the new Savane Pistache Market in Port-au-Prince. CHF implemented the project. “This is not a marketplace, this is a piece of art,” said the President of the Republic of Haiti, Michele Martelly in regard to the Savane Pistache Market in Carrefour-Feuilles, Port-au-Prince. The…

CHF International Inaugurates Innovative Green School in Kosovo PHOTO: Students at the Green School perform at the Inauguration This spring CHF International inaugurated an innovative new Green School, equipped with cutting edge technology, in Kosovo. The school will serve as a model of sustainability and a learning tool for both the students that will attend…

Somali Region Drought Update Rains Finally Arrive in Gode/WarderCHF International is pleased to report that rain has, at long last, fallen in the far eastern regions of Ethiopia. After the failure of the dehr rains in 2010, the gu rains of March & April 2011 appeared also to have failed in the eastern parts of…

The Pergamino Rosa award is bestowed upon organizations that have contributed and worked with the GLBT population to improve the lives of this historically excluded and marginalized community. CHF was honored for its work with its local partner, Kukulcán, targeting the MSM (men who have sex with men) population. With funding from the Global Fund,…

CHF Haiti: CHF supporting families displaced by the January 2010 earthquake PHOTO: CHF Program Coordinator Mr. Odule Augustin welcomes program beneficiaries to the first voucher distribution in Cap Haitien and explains the process. CHF is currently providing assistance to families who fled to Cap Haitien after their homes in Port-au-Prince were destroyed by the January…

New York Times: CHF Legitimizing India’s Invisible Environmentalists By Joey Peters of ClimateWire This article originally appeared in The New York Times. Sarasa Satish is a waste picker. Every morning, she starts promptly at 8:30 a.m. going door to door, collecting throwaway materials from houses in the Rajendra Nagar slums of Bangalore, India. The neighborhood…

CHF Nicaragua- 26 Municipalities Sign onto the Municipal Governance Program By Mara Martinez, Communications Coordinator, CHF Nicaragua PHOTO: Juan Rayo Masís, Mayor of San Isidro, and Jordiana Gutierrez, Head of Planning and Projects in the Municipality May is approaching, which is the official start of the rainy season in Nicaragua. It will bring with it…

CHF Executive Vice President Chris Sale Visits CHF Projects in the Middle East (Part 3) On the last day of her trip, Chris Sale CHF’s Senior Vice President and COO visits a “green” community center built by CHF and meets the people behind the project. On to Nablus where we visited the Safeer Children’s Center…

Blog: EVP Chris Sale’s Visit to the Middle East PHOTO: On her last day in Ramallah, Chris Sale, CHF’s Senior Vice President and COO visits a park CHF built with the support of the local community and learns about the Youth Shadow Council and how young people are engaged in working with their local government.…

Community Revitalization Program in Haiti Breaks Ground By Joanna Stavropoulos, Communications Manager, Haiti PHOTO: Ceres Denis  “I spent 23 years building my house,” says Ceres Denis, 59, his weathered face looking around the empty lot where he stood. On that same spot his house used to stand before the earthquake. It was a two story…

Teaching Urban Composting in Liberia Jacob Swee’s face comes alive as he talks about his job – teaching the first composting class at the Booker Washington Institute, a well‐known agricultural school just north of Monrovia, Liberia. He has been teaching there for nine years, since he finished his own degree, but this is the first…

Supporting the Ski Industry in Montenegro PHOTO: The training brought program participants over five routes through the mountains CHF International’s USAID-funded Economic Growth Project, implemented in Montenegro, and the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea recently partnered with HB Welcome, a Montenegro-based service provider, to organize a training for snowshoeing and ski mountaineering…

CHF Executive Vice President Chris Sale Visits Development Finance Clients in Lebanon PHOTO: Chris Sale, CHF International’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, talks about her recent trip to Lebanon, where she met many of the people who used CHF loans to start or expand their businesses and change their lives. April 13, 2011—Thursday,…

CHF India Recognizes World Water Day PHOTO: Community leaders spoke at the gathering, emphasizing the importance of preserving water This is the first time in human history that most of the world’s population lives in cities: 3.3 billion people and the urban landscape continues to grow. 38% of the growth is represented by expanding slums,…

CHF Ghana Calls for Improved Urban Services Provisioning By Mavis Otinkorang The issue of access to the urban space economy is one that challenges policy makers and practitioners, researchers, academics and members of grassroots organisations, given its inequality across the broad spectrum of the society. The inequity in access results from the combination of factors…

Supporting the Growth of Roses in Lebanon PHOTO: CHF’s COO Chris Sale recently visited the greenhouse as part of a larger visit to CHF’s programs in Lebanon April 12, 2011—As a part of CEDARS Program, CHF and the Hariri Foundation (the Directorate of the Agricultural Development and the Economic Development Advisory Committee in Saida), is…