VOA Creole provided much-needed medical information to their audience during a live radio call-in program on Jan. 27 broadcast from outside the ruins of the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. VOA broadcaster Jean Robert Philippe took questions from citizens talking with medical specialists in Florida.
Senator Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) praised VOA’s Creole Service in a statement in the Congressional Record, saying staffers provided Haitians with vital information aimed at helping them find "immediate shelter, medical assistance and aid."
More than 5,000 people attended a Town Hall on health issues in Jalingo, Nigeria. This Town Hall, along with another that attracted thousands of people, were organized by Ibrahim Ahmed of the VOA Hausa Service.
Two dozen journalists from across the Caribbean participated in a workshop on Pandemic Influenza and Disaster Reporting in Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 27-28. Organized by VOA Development’s Brian Armstead, the workshop included speakers from the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization.
Losang Gyatso, chief of VOA's Tibetan Service, introduced the documentary film Leaving Fear Behind at a showing at American University. The documentary was produced by Dhondup Wangchen, a filmmaker who has been detained by Chinese authorities since March 2008.
Michelle Harris represented VOA at the second annual Student Career Day at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School in Falls Church City. Nearly 500 students attended.
VOA’s Near East/Central Asia Division held a special lunch on Jan. 20 to raise money for the relief effort in Haiti. Donations were sent to the American Red Cross
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VOA’s Ukrainian Service celebrated 60 years of broadcasting on December 11 with a reception and two panel discussions. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, joined BBG Governor Blanquita Cullum, Ukrainian Ambassador Oleh Shamshur, and VOA Director Danforth Austin in celebrating the event.
Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in the House and co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, said VOA has long played a role in delivering “accurate, balanced and comprehensive news and information” to Ukraine.
In an interview with VOA’s Indonesian Service, Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama's half-sister, said her brother, who lived in Indonesia as a child, has a broad world view and "recognizes that we need to work in concert" with people around the world. Ms. Soetoro-Ng also praised her late mother, S. Ann
Dunham, who wrote her Ph.D thesis about village life in Indonesia.
Ronald Cesar, chief of VOA’s Creole Service, spoke to Foreign Service Officers at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Va., about the growing role of Haitian-Americans in U.S. politics. Haiti’s constitution prevents dual citizenship.
Cub Scout Pack 420 from Leonardtown, Md., took took the VOA Studio Tour in December. Gy Williams and Piero Ciancio talked to them after the tour. Other visitors to VOA included Chinese news editors, American University students and Scripps Howard staff.
Spozhmai Maiwandi, director of VOA’s South Asia Division, and Bart Childs of VOA’s TV Enhancement Team, traveled to Dubai to train eleven VOA Afghan stringers in new television techniques. The training was funded under a grant from the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in the House and co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, said VOA has long played a role in delivering “accurate, balanced and comprehensive news and information” to Ukraine.
In an interview with VOA’s Indonesian Service, Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama's half-sister, said her brother, who lived in Indonesia as a child, has a broad world view and "recognizes that we need to work in concert" with people around the world. Ms. Soetoro-Ng also praised her late mother, S. Ann
Dunham, who wrote her Ph.D thesis about village life in Indonesia.
Ronald Cesar, chief of VOA’s Creole Service, spoke to Foreign Service Officers at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Va., about the growing role of Haitian-Americans in U.S. politics. Haiti’s constitution prevents dual citizenship.
Cub Scout Pack 420 from Leonardtown, Md., took took the VOA Studio Tour in December. Gy Williams and Piero Ciancio talked to them after the tour. Other visitors to VOA included Chinese news editors, American University students and Scripps Howard staff.
Spozhmai Maiwandi, director of VOA’s South Asia Division, and Bart Childs of VOA’s TV Enhancement Team, traveled to Dubai to train eleven VOA Afghan stringers in new television techniques. The training was funded under a grant from the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
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