WWO’s vision is to transform the lives of orphaned children around the world. WWO is a U.S.-based NGO that provides medical and psychosocial care and treatment, and educational and arts programs for orphaned and vulnerable children, including those living with HIV/AIDS. In Vietnam, WWO currently works with children in orphanages at Tam Binh 2 in HCMC, Vung Tau, and Social Labor Training Center #2 in Ba Vi.

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Education for Development (EFD) believes that education improves the quality of life for disadvantaged children and youth. EFD strengthens and empowers local social organisations enabling them to improve and expand their educational services for disadvantaged children and youth. Through their development, disadvantaged children can gain fair and equal access to education and training thereby developing themselves to their full potential.

The Fundraising and Marketing Officer will be based in Ho Chi Minh City and is responsible, under the supervision of the Development Advisor, for the success and implementation of EFD’s Fundraising and Marketing Programs

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Education for Development (EFD) is looking for a Fundraising and Marketing Officer. The Fundraising and Marketing Officer, under the supervision of the Development Advisor, will be responsible for the success and implementation of EFD’s Fundraising and Marketing Programs and will be based in HCMC.

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Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), managed on behalf of its members by the German development organization (GTZ) and supported with a $35 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a coalition of countries from the developing world committed to making savings accounts, insurance, and other financial services available to millions of people living on less than $2 a day.

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The Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank will co-host an international Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development (2010 MIF) to be held in Paris on March, 4-5 2010.

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New environmental tests confirm extremely high levels of dioxin, the toxic ingredient of Agent Orange, in people, fish and soil near a former U.S. air base where American troops stored the herbicide during the Vietnam War.

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New environmental tests confirm extremely high levels of dioxin, the toxic ingredient of Agent Orange, in people, fish and soil near a former U.S. air base where American troops stored the herbicide during the Vietnam War.

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Enter the 2009 CGAP Microfinance Photography Contest and help tell the world about microfinance and how it’s touching the lives of poor people.

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The 2009-10 Human Rights Small Grants Scheme (HRSGS) is now open for applications.

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THE APOLOGY last week of former US Army Lieutenant William Calley, who was convicted in the killing of hundreds of civilians at My Lai during the Vietnam War, was long overdue. But a more important step in the righting of wrongs left over from that war would be a greater US role in rectifying the health and environmental problems caused by the defoliant Agent Orange.

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