PHNOM PENH, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Tuesday signed amendments to two agreements with Cambodia to provide 34.8 million U.S. dollars in 2009 to support Cambodian priorities in health and education.
Hor Namhong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Flynn Fuller, USAID (U.S. Agency fro International Development) Mission Director, signed on behalf of their respective governments with U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Carol A. Rodley as a witness.
The new funding brings to over 250 million U.S. dollars that the United States has provided in support of health and education in Cambodia since 1999, according to the press release from U.S. Embassy.
The amendment to the first agreement consists of 31.6 million U.S. dollars in grant funds to achieve health objectives. Funds will be used to promote a variety of activities to reduce the transmission and impact of HIV/AIDS; to prevent and control major infectious diseases such as tuberculosis; to fight avian influenza and other influenza-like illnesses; to improve maternal, reproductive, and children's health; and to strengthen Cambodian public-health systems.
The amendment to the second agreement will provide 3.2 million U.S. dollars in grant funds to support the Cambodian government's education objectives. These funds will support the launch of a new program that will build on USAID's ongoing education program, which is improving the quality and relevance of basic education and increasing access to schooling for all children, including minorities, people with disabilities, and the very poor.
Activities will also focus on reducing school dropout and repetition rates through improvements in teaching quality, school-management training, and measuring student academic achievement.
USAID expects to commit 61.8 million U.S. dollars in assistance to Cambodia in 2009.
Hor Namhong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Flynn Fuller, USAID (U.S. Agency fro International Development) Mission Director, signed on behalf of their respective governments with U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Carol A. Rodley as a witness.
The new funding brings to over 250 million U.S. dollars that the United States has provided in support of health and education in Cambodia since 1999, according to the press release from U.S. Embassy.
The amendment to the first agreement consists of 31.6 million U.S. dollars in grant funds to achieve health objectives. Funds will be used to promote a variety of activities to reduce the transmission and impact of HIV/AIDS; to prevent and control major infectious diseases such as tuberculosis; to fight avian influenza and other influenza-like illnesses; to improve maternal, reproductive, and children's health; and to strengthen Cambodian public-health systems.
The amendment to the second agreement will provide 3.2 million U.S. dollars in grant funds to support the Cambodian government's education objectives. These funds will support the launch of a new program that will build on USAID's ongoing education program, which is improving the quality and relevance of basic education and increasing access to schooling for all children, including minorities, people with disabilities, and the very poor.
Activities will also focus on reducing school dropout and repetition rates through improvements in teaching quality, school-management training, and measuring student academic achievement.
USAID expects to commit 61.8 million U.S. dollars in assistance to Cambodia in 2009.
8 comments:
the $$$ will go straight to their pockets!
Kit Pi Choy
Thanks the US Government for the supports.
12:12 PM,
You are always thinking, other people are so stupid.
To 12:12PM and Paddy,
You both are completely wrong, becuase most aid to Cambodia are administered or spend directly by the donors countries, so the government of Cambodia never seen the money. And how the government pocket the money, when the donors the one that spend the money directly?.
measthes@yahoo.com
You're too sure like a pure 24k gold, meas. or perhaps, you're also part of this begging thugs!
To 2:17(anonymous),
Becuase of these begging thugs, Cambodia was able to get fun for rebuild infrastructure such as schools, roads, bridges, communications and so on and economics growth at double digits in the last ten years. Unlike the oppositions are always tell the donors to stop donate to Cambodia, so the people could starve and the economy could go backward and blame it on the begging thugs, so they could win the election. Well, the begging thugs are educating so many people now in Cambodia and these educators are not going to believe you guys any more, that why the begging thugs are getting more votes each election time.
measthes@yahoo.com
$34 million ?? is that all? what a stingy bastard ,china gave cambodia at least $500 million a year that not even includ some other gift. $34 million a year for cambodia is nothing at all they spend 1 billion dollar a day to wage for in irag and guese what they are loosing .
thank you, america. me love you long time. more money more honey!
hey, stop bitching alread! there are more to cambodia than you and i, really! god bless cambodia.
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