Women in Waste
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The strong women scavengers and collectors in #Semarang are on the front line for waste management.
Phát biểu của Giám đốc USAID Việt Nam Aler Grubbs nhân Ngày Trái đất 2024
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Chúc mừng Ngày Trái đất 2024! Năm nay, USAID tập trung vào chủ đề ô nhiễm rác thải nhựa. Ô nhiễm rác thải nhựa là một vấn đề lớn mà chúng ta có thể thấy ở khắp mọi nơi. Tại Việt Nam, USAID đang hỗ trợ triển khai một số giải pháp nhằm giảm thiểu tình trạng này, chẳng hạn như một ứng dụng điện thoại di động kết nối những người thu mua ve chai với người bán, giúp tạo thu nhập và giảm thiểu rác thải nhựa.
Earth Day 2024 Message from USAID/Vietnam Mission Director Aler Grubbs
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Happy Earth Day 2024! This year USAID is focused on plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is a huge problem and we see it everywhere. USAID is working in Vietnam on a couple different ways to reduce that, mobile apps that can link informal waste collectors with plastic buyers, so it is income generation and reduces the plastic.
Connecting Ruth
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Globally, mobile phone ownership follows a familiar pattern: more men have them than women. USAID is working to cut the gender digital divide in half by 2030 as part of the White House Initiative Women in the Digital Economy Fund (WiDEF).
Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman with France 24 on Sudan
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As you noted at the top, this is the largest displacement of people in the world today. In any one place – over eight and a half million people, many of them displaced internally, many of them have fled over the borders to neighboring countries, which themselves are very poor and vulnerable countries. So this is a conflict that is spilling outside of Sudan, it is affecting millions and millions of people. We now see five million people at risk of Famine, at the level just below Famine. The rainy season is about to start. We are very concerned over the next several months that more and more people will fall into Famine.