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AFGHANISTAN: Helping Children Learn by Revitalizing School Environments

After successfully training more than 49,000 educators, the Building Education Support Systems for Teachers (BESST) project is taking steps to maximize the impact of its interventions by supporting school managers and community leaders in creating and implementing School Improvement Plans (SIPs).
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Creative’s Dr. Chloe Schwenke: Workshop Helps Corporate Leaders Internalize Ethics

A Visual Testament to the Plight of Peru’s Disappeared

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Fall 2008 edition

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	GUATEMALA: Ten Former Gang Members Get a New Start as Pepsi Employees When Dervyn Hernandez started his new job at Pepsi Centroamerica in Guatemala, Human Resources Manager Fernando Letona, told only other managers about the young man’s past life as a gang member. (more)
	NIGERIA: President Names COMPASS-Supported School the Best in the Nation With help from the COMPASS project, the Race Course Primary School was named the best primary school in the nation when it received the President’s Teachers Schools Excellence Award for 2008. (more)
	AFGHANISTAN: Enabling Gender Equity in NGO Management This fall, the Capacity Development Program trained 19 Afghans from eight NGOs in the ways management practices can develop gender equity in their services to their communities and initiatives. (more)
	ALBANIA: Shelter Provides a Lifeline with CAAHT Support The arrival of the CAAHT project in 2004 provided essential support for Vera Lesko, Director of the Vatra Psychosocial Center. (more)
	EL SALVADOR: A Second ‘For My Neighborhood’ Outreach Center Welcomes At-Risk Youth The Regional Youth Alliance USAID-SICA opened its second youth Outreach Center in El Salvador, where it provides at-risk youth in the city of Lourdes, a haven to acquire new skills for gainful employment and social responsibility. (more)
	KYRGYZSTAN: Creative’s Terry Giles Wins “Best Educator of the Kyrgyz Republic” Award Terry Giles, Creative Associates’ Chief of Party for the Quality Learning Project, was named “Best Educator of the Kyrgyz Republic,” by the Kyrgyz Minister of Education and Science. (more)
	Photo Essay: Former Gang Members in Guatemala Learn Life Lessons through Soccer This fall in Guatemala, a soccer team made up of former gang members was organized by the USAID Youth Challenge Alliance Program, also known as Desafio 200. This program is modeled on Creative Associates’ pioneering success in helping gang members turn their lives around through mentoring and job training opportunities. (more)
	USAID/OTI Awards Creative Associates the SWIFT III Indefinite Quantity Contract The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Creative Associates International, Inc. the Support Which Implements Fast Transition (SWIFT III) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC). (more)