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Rebuilding Haiti, Better Than Before
Rebuilding Haiti, Better Than Before
Some aid groups in Haiti continue to provide immediate assistance — food, water and shelter. But many others are focused on long-term goals: rebuilding infrastructure and systems, supporting local farmers and meeting the demand for Haitian medical and mental health professionals.
Dr. Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer, Partners in Health
James Gordon, director, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Jose Andres, James Beard award-winning chef
NEAL CONAN, host:
This is TALK OF THE NATION. Im Neal Conan in Washington.
Nine months after a catastrophic earthquake leveled much of Port-au-Prince, hundreds of thousands of Haitians still remain homeless, rubble still litters many neighborhoods, and now the country is grappling with its first cholera outbreak in decades, centered of the coastal city of Saint-Marc, 40 miles north of the capital.
Many aid groups continue to provide essentials: food, water, shelter, medical care. Others, though, focus on the long haul and work to rebuild systems to support local farmers or develop schools to help meet the demand for medical and mental health professionals.
If you've been to Haiti recently, did you see progress? Can Port-au-Prince be rebuilt better? 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. Thats at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Later in the program, Ask Amy's Amy Dickenson on productive ways to ask for an apology. If you've tried to solicit an I'm sorry, did it work, or are you still waiting? Email us your story, that's email@example.com.
But first, rebuilding Haiti, and we begin with Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer for the group Partners in Health, also a professor with Harvard Medical School. She joins us now from member station WBUR in Boston. And Dr. Mukherjee, thanks very much for being on TALK OF THE NATION today.
Dr. JOIA MUKHERJEE (Harvard Medical School): You're welcome, Neal. Thanks for having me.
CONAN: And I know you've been coordinating Partner in Health's response to the cholera outbreak. Any signs that the illness is spreading into Port-au-Prince?
Dr. MUKHERJEE: No, we've been quite fortunate so far. I think there have been a few cases in Port-au-Prince, but we haven't seen spread within Port-au-Prince as of yet.
The coordination, I just want to make it clear, that is going on, on the ground by our Haitian team. I'm sort of helping to support what they need, but they have just done amazing work in reaching out to communities to prevent the spread even within our own catchment area of Saint-Marc and prevent the spread elsewhere in Haiti.
CONAN: And I'm told that cholera, though once you've got is quite terrible and easily spread, on the other hand is fairly also easily treated and prevented.
Dr. MUKHERJEE: Yeah, very easy to treat. All you do is rehydrate someone. You sometimes may use antibiotics, but it's not the mainstay of treatment. The mainstay is just making sure people don't die of dehydration.
The difficulty is it is a rapidly dehydrating, diarrheal disease, so much quicker than the other forms of diarrhea we commonly see in Haiti and elsewhere.
Prevention is soap, water, purifying, you know, water with chlorine tablets. I mean, it's fairly straightforward. But getting to all of the areas where people live is the big challenges, delivering those messages and the tools for prevention.
CONAN: Now, Partners in Health has been in Haiti providing services for two decades, including responses to crises like this cholera outbreak. But I wonder, has the earthquake provided an opportunity to help rebuild a more robust health system for the future?
Dr. MUKHERJEE: Not yet, Neal, and I hope that it will. I mean, we are, ourselves, working closely with the Ministry of Health to build a very large, state-of-the-art teaching hospital in central Haiti. But the medical school, the university hospital, the nursing school - all of those remain nearly incapacitated, if not totally incapacitated.
The facilities throughout Haiti are really under-funded, understaffed. We're very fortunate that we have been working for so long that the 10 facilities where we work in Haiti, we have staff, we have supplies. I'm very proud to report that we've not had a single stock-out since the beginning of this epidemic, and yet it's our warehouse, jointly operated between Partners in Health and the ministry, that's supplying all of the affected areas in Haiti.
So I think, you know, we know how to rebuilt systems, but that money has not been flowing reliably into Haiti as of yet. It has been pledged, but we have not seen a lot of movement for it on rebuilding or building the health infrastructure of Haiti.
CONAN: Where were those pledges from, other countries, including the United States?
Dr. MUKHERJEE: Yes, and I think it's it behooves all of us who care about global poverty, and Haiti in particular, to really track that money and say who's pledged what. And, you know, some of it is now posted on the website of the Office of the Special Envoy of the U.N., who's pledged what.
But it's a very small amount of money that's actually gone to Haiti and even a smaller amount that's gone to the government of Haiti, who is actually charged with providing the majority of public services, obviously.
CONAN: And if the, well, inadequate facilities that were there have now been destroyed and are not up and running, clearly this is going to be a continuing problem for years ahead, until they are up and running.
Dr. MUKHERJEE: Absolutely, absolutely. And we believe that there are really two discrete but interconnected aspects to this that need to be simultaneously done.
One is to develop a robust public system because that's the only system that will get as far as Haitians are living, where they are, you know, villages, towns.
And the second is really to mobilize the community to be agents of health. And we believe that paying people to do that work is also a way of giving employment and improving the economy. And the service sector can be a robust engine for economic development, as well.
And so another thing that's really been remarkable to me during this cholera outbreak, and again, this is I just got off the phone with our director of the program in the Artibonite at Saint-Marc, in Saint-Marc, Dr. Patrick Almazor, and he has told me that none of our HIV-infected patients have gotten cholera.
And that is because they're getting excellent community-based care. They have people that are working with them at the home level. They're giving them messages of general health and hygiene, helping them with water and food security.
Similarly, the kids that we're taking care of in our malnutrition program, none of those kids have gotten cholera. So these are groups that in general we would consider quite vulnerable to contracting cholera and dying from cholera, and yet in these two very vulnerable groups, we have had adequate prevention even without the additional effort we've put in, just because our community-based system works.
CONAN: We're asking those of you who have been to Haiti recently to call us and tell us: Have you seen progress? 800-989-8255. Email firstname.lastname@example.com. Dominic's(ph) on the line, calling from St. Louis.
DOMINIC (Caller): Yes, hi, how are you?
CONAN: Good, thanks.
DOMINIC: My brother's been to Haiti twice, recently. He went in March, after the earthquake, and he just got back last month. So I was asking him about how did it go. And he said, well, Haiti looks - Port-au-Prince look like, as if the earthquake just had happened in July.
I mean, nothing has changed from when he left. To him, he hasn't seen any changes from March, when he was there, to last month.
CONAN: Dr. Mukherjee, I know you've been there recently. What do you see?
Dr. MUKHERJEE: I agree with Dominic's brother. There's not a lot of forward movement. There's still a lot of rubble that hasn't been cleared. There are still huge numbers, hundreds of thousands of displaced people living in absolute squalor.
And I think again, you know, hopefully if there is one small, positive thing that can come from this epidemic I hate to even, you know, sort of conflate positivity with such a terrible thing, but it will be refocusing people's attention on the living conditions in Haiti and to say yes, there was an outpouring of support and sympathy, but where is that money, and let's figure out a real tracking system with real accountability both for governments that pledge the money but for NGOs that have received the money, as well. I don't see massive changes since January 12.
CONAN: Dominic, thanks very much for the call.
And finally, Dr. Mukherjee, a lot of people, as you say, transparent systems would make people more confident. You work with the Ministry of Health and have for a long time. Are they reliable partners? Does money vanish?
Dr. MUKHERJEE: Sure, they are reliable partners, and sure, money vanished. I think if if the crisis on Wall Street taught us anything, it should be that where there is money, there is corruption and that third-world governments don't have a lock on corruption, nor do governments have a lock on corruption, that the reason we are able to prevent corruption in most wealthier countries more easily than poor countries is because we put money into systems.
And once systems and regulation starts to fall apart, then corruption will occur, or corruption will become rampant. And so the government of Haiti is a very at least in the Ministry of Health very reliable partners we have.
But they need help - just as much as they need help with medicines and protocols, they need help with the systems of accounting and reporting. And they've asked for our help and been very open about, you know, us accompanying them as, you know, the government doing it, but we can help develop systems, we can help with accounting.
The I'm an AIDS doctor. If I went to central Haiti and dumped a bunch of anti-retrovirals in a town, I wouldn't be doing my job. My job is to help design systems and train people how to use those systems. And I think we should look at foreign aid that way.
Rather than just say governments are corrupt, say governments have inadequate regulation and systems, and let's help them both get the money and manage the money.
And I think we can do that, and we've done that successful for many years in Haiti. We're doing it in Rwanda and Lesotho and elsewhere.
CONAN: Dr. Mukherjee, thanks very much, and good luck you.
Dr. MUKHERJEE: You're welcome. Thank you, Neal.
CONAN: Dr. Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer for the international nonprofit Partners in Health, joined us today from member station WBUR in Boston.
In the aftermath of disaster, meeting people's physical medical needs is often the highest priority. Tragedies, though, can take a tremendous emotional toll that lasts long after rebuilding is underway.
We turn now to Dr. James Gordon, founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, which has worked with trauma survivors on the U.S. Gulf Coast, in Kosovo and in Gaza, and he joins us now by phone from San Diego. And Dr. Gordon, nice to have you back on TALK OF THE NATION.
Dr. JAMES GORDON (Founder, Director, Center for Mind-Body Medicine): Good. It's nice to be here, Neal.
CONAN: You were last with us in March and anticipated a growing need for mental health support for quake survivors. Have you seen the need, and have you seen the need met?
Dr. GORDON: Well, the need has not yet been met. The need has become clear to everybody. We at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine are working with every major health and mental health organization in Haiti, including the Ministry of Health and Partners in Health and the Catholic Church and the medical school and the nursing school and the general hospital.
And everyone says, although there are the short-term needs, the direct, medical needs - of course, cholera being the most striking example right now - but the long-term need that everyone agrees is likely to be paramount is the psychological need.
And there really, there weren't before the earthquake, and there certainly aren't after the earthquake, the kind of organized services or organized response that's needed.
And so we are in Haiti to train people to provide the kind of primary mental health care that's needed for the whole population.
CONAN: And do you have a facility to do that?
Dr. GORDON: Well, we have funds to begin, and we have funds from one of my board members. Donald de Laski has funded the first effort, which will train 120 leaders from those major organizations.
And we're working and everybody has been so responsive. That's quite because they all recognize the need, the long-term goal of training 1,500 people and creating a network of healing throughout Haiti, we need considerably more support to do. We're ready to do it. It's what we have done in Gaza.
CONAN: Dr. Gordon, hang with us. We're going to take a short break. And those of you who have been to Haiti recently, give us a call, report on what you've seen and experienced there. Has there been measurable progress? 800-989-8255. Email us, email@example.com. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. Im Neal Conan in Washington.
The cholera epidemic in Haiti appears to have stabilized, for now. Health care workers are watching the situation closely. More than 300 people are reported dead.
Still, more than a million people now live in camps around Haiti. January's earthquake destroyed more than 100,000 homes and apartment buildings. Rebuilding is slow, where it's begun at all.
We're talking today about building a better Haiti. If you've been there recently, did you see progress? Can Port-au-Prince be rebuilt better? 800-989-8255. Email us, email@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. Thats at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Right now we're talking with James Gordon, a psychiatrist and founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine. Just before the break, you were talking about training - setting up a facility, and there's money for it, to train a cohort of new mental health professionals. It's significant, it's a start, but it also seems like a drop in the bucket.
Dr. GORDON: Well, it's you know, one of the things that's so striking is that everybody is so on edge in Haiti. I think we saw little glimpses of it with the response to trying to establish clinics for cholera, that the anger and the is just under the surface, not on the sense - terrible sense of loss.
When I was down there a month or two ago and did some workshops, one of the things that virtually everyone in the workshop said is: I'm so irritable. I get angry so much more easily than before.
So everyone recognizes that the anger, the sadness and there's been no opportunity for most people to express what's going on inside. So we create groups for the helpers, both the professional helpers and also the leaders in the community, priests and nuns and voodoo healers, leaders of women's groups, as well as doctors and nurses.
And they express what's inside, often for the first time, and then they learn very simple we teach them very simple techniques: to relax, to quiet themselves down, to access their imagination and their intuition so they can solve or at least take a more positive look at these incredibly difficult problems that everyone is facing.
CONAN: here's an email we have from Mary Lou(ph) in New London, Ohio: I just returned from Haiti this past Sunday. I was part of a team representing the Ohio State University's Haiti Empowerment Project.
Our team conducted professional development seminars for the teachers of five tent communities and two other schools. Three of them also taught three days at a Port-au-Prince university. This was my first trip, and my emotions ranged from despair to hopefulness.
And also on the line with us is Mark(ph), and Mark's calling us from Charlotte.
MARK (Caller): Yes, I recently returned. I'm actually going back tomorrow. But, you know, as far as progress, there isn't any progress. I mean, when you go to Port-au-Prince, you just see the people and the rubble, and all the tent cities. There's trafficking in children.
There you know, there was a lot of funds collected for Haiti or designated that just hasn't happened. Even the American Red Cross, as recently, said that only 25 percent of what they received for donations Haiti has actually gone to Haiti.
CONAN: And what are you doing there in Haiti, Mark?
MARK: We're building a school up near Cap-Haitien.
CONAN: And is it going ahead? Do you have money for that?
MARK: Yes, thanks, thanks to the lord we have a generous donor that's helping us. But it's with a group called Hands for Haiti, and we're trying to build schools. But there's so many children. Half the children never get to go to school.
CONAN: And Mark, good luck to you. Thanks very much for the call.
MARK: All right, thank you.
CONAN: Bye-bye.
Dr. GORDON: Neal, what the email was saying, and also a little bit of what Mark was saying, is so familiar if you're in Haiti. At times there is this feeling of being so overwhelmed and so despairing, as so many people are.
At the same time, when people come together, and when they can have something they can work on - whether it's building a school or developing skills for mental health or doing the kind of work that Partners in Health is doing out in the countryside - that changes the atmosphere.
I think one of the most devastating problems is people feeling that there's no way for them to participate in the massive and creative change that's necessary. As we give people that opportunity, what I've observed is if they respond, then that helps them to shift how they feel, as well.
CONAN: It's also if you can start to see progress, would not morale improve? You know, a little rubble is removed, doesn't that help?
Dr. GORDON: Yes, of course it does. And there's so much more to be done. I think one of the things that really needs to be and this is not my area of expertise, but it's clear that more attention needs to be paid to mobilizing people to do all of these practical tasks.
We're doing that in the area of psychological self-care and mutual help. But it needs to be one with removing the rubble, with building houses, with, you know, restoring the educational system. Every step of the way, these projects have to be undertaken.
And there are many, many people of good will, and I think that we need to really appreciate all the goodwill that's being shown. And all of us I was just talking with Quincy Jones, the composer and arranger.
CONAN: Sure.
Dr. GORDON: We're saying, you know, we've got to work together. He's working on creating a music school. We're working psychologically. These efforts have to come together.
CONAN: Dr. Gordon, we wish you the best of luck. Thanks very much for your time today.
Dr. GORDON: Thanks so much, Neal. It's great to be here and great you're doing the show.
CONAN: Dr. James Gordon joined us by phone from San Diego, founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, author of "Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression."
Joining us here in Studio 3A is Jose Andres. He's a James Beard award-winning chef and co-owner of a number of restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area and in Los Angeles. He also hosts the PBS television series "Made in Spain." Thanks very much for being with us today.
Mr. JOSE ANDRES (Chef; Host, "Made in Spain"): Very happy to be with you.
CONAN: And you were in Haiti. What does a chef bring to Haiti?
Mr. ANDRES: That's what I was asking myself. But they were so happy I took the decision of going. A year and a half ago, a friend of mine gave me a solar kitchen.
CONAN: A solar-powered kitchen?
Mr. ANDRES: Cook stove, only used in the sun. And we were in the middle of a snowstorm in Bethesda. The power went off, and after the snowstorm, I put the cook stove, with my daughters, and we began cooking. Minus-five Celsius degrees, and we were cooking.
Reading about what happened in Haiti, knowing all the issues they were having using charcoal, 98 percent of the country total deforestation.
CONAN: Yeah, there's very few trees left.
Mr. ANDRES: I pick up the phone, and I call my friend, the one that gave me the solar kitchen, and I told him: how soon can you go to Haiti with me?
And in less than three weeks, we took 20 solar kitchens with us, and we went to Port-au-Prince, and I stayed there close to 11, 12 days. And I didn't go to help; I went to learn. I was very selfish. I went to try to learn if these solar kitchens could be, somehow, the solution to the future of a huge problem. And I came back, and I learned that they can be part of the solution.
CONAN: Obviously, trees in Haiti, as you said, most of them have been cut down for fuel. They also, the lack of the deforestation contributes to the erosion problem because the trees are not there to soak up the water and hold the soil in place.
So obviously, 20 cook stoves, anything helps, but there's lots more to do.
Mr. ANDRES: We need so much more to do. I'm about to go on Monday. I'm going six more days, because I already we identified already an orphanage. We are trying only to start feeding 1,000 kids to begin, because I need the home to start proving that using these solar ovens can be the solution for Haiti.
So take a look at the issue. The mothers, that they are cooking, sometimes with their children right on their backs, using charcoal, all the fumes coming up in their lungs.
CONAN: Sure. We just heard from the U.N. session a few weeks ago about the dangers of dirty cook stoves that contribute to all kinds of diseases.
Mr. ANDRES: On top of that, I spent - I went to a beautiful village in the frontier with the Dominican Republic called Fonbarette(ph), beautiful. It looks almost like paradise if you look at the mountains, at the skyline.
But then you see what happens, and these guys, the young kids, they spend half of their days looking for wood or going two, three hours away to bring one gallon of water back to their home. The only thing they do all day is to provide for the family's water, or in this case some wood, used to make a fire to being able to cook.
Imagine for a second that we are able to start providing cook stoves that use the sun. All of a sudden, these people have time in their hands to do something else, to start helping to be a part of the solution, rebuilding, to start going hopefully to schools, et cetera, et cetera. That's why these solar cook stoves, this clean energy, should be part of the future not only for Haiti but for any other country's needs around the round.
CONAN: And did try out some of the 20 you brought down last time? Did they work well?
Mr. ANDRES: We tried many. The difficulty is to convince people that the need to stop using charcoal. Even you and I, we will have a hard time saying that we have to be feeding our families with this kind of UFO-look-alike kitchen.
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Mr. ANDRES: So the issue here is to start having a place that can have 20, 30, 40 of these kitchens up and running every day in a very efficient way to feed people. So I've been doing a lot of things, like, for example, partnering with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize 2006, where he's behind social business. You know one problem in Haiti? There's no other country in the world that has more nonprofits, more NGOs, but somehow we have these huge issues.
We need to start not throwing money at the problem but starting investing more in the solutions and try to create a social business where people don't feel they're entitled to free things but try to create a system - very difficult, it's easier to say than to do - but trying to create a social business where people don't expect everything for free, that they have to start working and creating a system where they will feed people by making sure that the economy is helped by buying locally. Let's not send more food. Let's send food the first week, but after, let's work with the local farmers to make sure that those farmers become part of the solution of creating jobs, of making sure that the economy is self-sustaining. And this is - this should be the beginning of, hopefully, a long but beautiful recovery.
CONAN: This is chef Jose Andres. 800-989-8255. Email email@example.com. And let's go next to Terry(ph). And Terry is with us from Brainerd in Minnesota.
TERRY (Caller): Hello.
CONAN: Hi there.
TERRY: Yes, I just couldn't agree more with your previous caller there. I just returned from a 10-days trip to Haiti as a tourist, and I know that sounds a little odd, but it might be like my second midlife crisis, but I just decided to kind of head there and see things firsthand for myself. And I got to tell you, you know, I saw progress. I saw things getting done, but the most overwhelming thing that you see in Port-au-Prince and in Petionville is just the enormous amount of NGOs and their staff running around. I mean, they're just everywhere, and they themselves are almost a huge part of the economy.
CONAN: Because they're obviously buying a lot of local things and employing local people?
TERRY: Yeah. You know, if you went into restaurants and bars and discos, I mean, everywhere I went - and even though, you know, some might disagree with that, I mean they're very present. They're very - they're everywhere. And of course, you know, some of the Haitians kind of question that, you know, if they're there spending the money appropriately. The other thing the NGOs I couldn't help but notice is that they're very obsessed with their security, and to the Haitians, that's extremely offensive and often gets in the way of their progress.
CONAN: Just going back to something you said a moment ago, we don't think of Port-au-Prince as a place where discos are up and running.
TERRY: Oh, yes. You know, Petionville, especially a little bit more of a middle class neighborhood, you know, life goes on. I mean I met a lot of local university students, English-speaking students that, you know, there's discos, there's restaurants. There's a nightlife that's very vibrant, particularly in Petionville.
CONAN: All right, Terry, thanks very much for the call. Appreciate it.
TERRY: Thank you.
CONAN: We're talking about rebuilding Port-au-Prince better nine months after the earthquake. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And Jose Andres, I know - I read an account that you wrote about your visit to Port-au-Prince, and you were having what sounded like a wonderful meal in a local hotel - the restaurant of a local hotel, and I know you felt a little conflicted about it.
Mr. ANDRES: Very conflicted. What the last caller mentioned, it's what's happening, but you know, it's - as he said, it's part of the economy of rebuilding. Unfortunately, this is part of our world - is people that have everything, and these people that have nothing. I mean, a place like Haiti, you see everyone working side by side. You're in a hotel having a perfect meal, and right across from your hotel, literally two meters, three, five meters away from the door, you have a camp. And that makes you think. That makes you think. And this is why I came back and I incorporated these organizations that right now we are only three, four people, all central kitchen, with the intention of feeding the world in a clean sustainable way.
CONAN: Have you considered the idea - and I'm just throwing this out there -that, you know, if you opened a restaurant there and employed people, that might be another way to contribute?
Mr. ANDRES: Its some people that are thinking of doing this, even thinking about opening a hotel and becoming like a school. Me, I rather prefer trying to be helping those that have completely nothing. One of the great things that happened not too long ago, on September 21st, Secretary Hillary Clinton announced a global alliance for clean cook stoves. United States...
CONAN: Yeah.
Mr. ANDRES: ...is going to be almost putting over $50 million over the next five years to research and development to clean cook stoves of the future. This is a huge thing. This is a huge moment in history because probably it's the first time in history that you hear, in this case, the secretary, nonetheless, of the United States of America saying part of the future is clean cook stoves, and we're going to invest in it.
CONAN: Let's get another caller in. Onife(ph) - and I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly - from Port Saint Lucie in Florida.
ONIFE (Caller): Yes.
CONAN: Go ahead.
ONIFE: How are you?
CONAN: I'm well, thank you.
ONIFE: Yes. To respond to your question, like what we have seen in Haiti during our last visit - I was there a couple of weeks ago. What I realize is that the people feel as if they're not getting involved in the solution to the problem. They're just waiting around, not knowing what's going on. Until, as the chef just said, until we get them involved, until we show them the solution have to come from within, no matter what we do, we will not bring about the solution to that situation. As he said, we - the people will feel a sense of entitlement, as if everything is owed(ph) to them, or we're going to bring everything free to them. If you give me every day, I'm going to hope to get something from you every day. If you do not show me how to fish, when you're not around, how am I going to survive? If my economy is not sustainable, doable, how I'm going to survive when you're not around to bring me food?
CONAN: Onife, good points. Thank you very much.
ONIFE: You're very welcome.
CONAN: Bye-bye. And Chef Jose Andres, thank you for your time today and good luck with your project.
Mr. ANDRES: Thank you very much.
CONAN: And I hope you enjoy your visit. Jose Andres, an award-winning chef, co-owner of several restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area, hosted the PBS cooking program "Made in Spain," was kind enough today to come in to join us here in Studio 3A.
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Come visit my education session "Fundamentals of Combustible Dust - Where are they now?" at the NFPA Conference and Expo in Chicago this year to learn about the status of this new document and how it will affect the current dust documents. It will be taking place Tuesday, June 11 at 4:15 p.m. The session is open to all registered conference attendees.


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Thirty years after the beloved original franchise took the world by storm, director Paul Feig brings his fresh take to the supernatural comedy, joined by some of the funniest actors working today – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth. This summer, they're here to save the world!
The music is composed by Hollywood's go-to composer for edgy comedic fare Theodore Shapiro. He has consistently delivered memorable music for some of the funniest movies of the past five years. Shapiro's careful touch has made him a sought-after collaborator for some of Hollywood's leading comedy directors: David Frankel (Prada, Marley), Stiller (Tropic Thunder), John Hamburg (I Love You, Man, Along Came Polly), Mike Judge (Idiocracy) and, most recently, Harold Ramis (Year One). Shapiro, 37, is a rarity in modern film music: a classically trained composer (bachelor's degree from Brown, master's from Juilliard) who, despite commissions for classical works (including a well-received piano concerto in 1999), decided he'd rather be working in film.
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The Cape Range rises steeply behind the Western Australian town of Exmouth and the Charles Knife Road is steep, windy and rough but what a ride, especially on the way back down.
Wandering about we found a plugged oil well high up in the Cape Range which was the 2nd well ever drilled in WA. They later found viable oil offshore on Barrow Island and of course the rest is history.
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Chemo..The Chemical
Metal Men #25
May 1967
Pencil: Andru
Ink: Esposito
Roll call: Doc Magnus, Platinum, Mercury, Gold, Lead, Iron, Tin, "Nameless"
Classic Quote: Gold "Chemo's here for Tina - to rule beside him - sole inhabitants of an all liquid world - How Horrible!!
In the midst of an experiment to install a responsometer in the Sizzler there is an explosion and metal shards are driven into the Docs heart.
Tina Stays with Doc
|Gold operates and Doc is in recovery,
the Metal Men vote Gold to be their leader until Doc recovers even
though Mercury votes for himself. They take off in the jettaway to
patrol the city and in quick succession they foil an armed robbery
then save people that are caught on a building that is on fire
followed by Tin and Iron saving a drowning man.
Then suddenly on a bridge they sight Chemo a being created by discarded chemicals from experiments that have failed, reformed after their last battle where he wanted Tina to rule beside him sole inhabitants of an all liquid world.
|Chemo attacks and Lead forms an umbrella to shield the other Metal Men. They push Chemo into the river while on the jettaway Lead is in a bad way and the Metal Men take him to the metal recovery room. Gold operates on Lead and then goes to see Doc who is recovering well. Tina refuses to leave Doc's side so the Metal Men go without her. Chemo is attacking a ship so Iron changes into a sledgehammer to batter Chemo into the river Sludge as he goes under though Chemo blasts Iron and he to is disabled, still Tina will not leave the Doc. Chemo leaves the seabed and attacks the Statue of Liberty. Tin and Nameless turn to ash to stop Chemo and he slips back into the sea and now Tin and Nameless are also out of action.
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not had a chance to attack Chemo but Gold
tells him its because his time has not yet come. Still Tina will not
leave the Doc leaving only Mercury and Gold to stop Chemo who is now
attacking a submarine. Using the jettaway Gold and Mercury right the
stricken sub. They then save a bathysphere and Mercury gets more and
more angry with Gold. At that moment Chemo comes up onto the beach
and Mercury lunges at her but gets turned into globules. Gold
manages to collect him and dodge Chemo's enraged liquid fire.
Chemo manages to grab the jettaway so Gold
fly's him to the lab but the smelter is off. Gold swiftly turns into
a padlock and locks Chemo's mouth, Tina rushes out and wraps up
Chemo who pressurises and blows up. As they go back in Doc is
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It is impossible to love each other without a sense of mutual (equal) worth and respect for each other.
- Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to a neighbor: Therefore Love is the fulfilling of the law.
- 1 John 4:20 It is impossible to Love God, who we've never seen and hate our brothers and sisters whom we see every day.
- God is neither male nor female; God is spirit and spirit has no gender.
Liberation Theology for all, a theology that frees the oppressed, therefore:
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21st October 2018.. Sunday Lunch at the Consort Restaurant . Elegant surroundings beautiful warm Sunny day , sat outside initially with drinks ( a little confusion ordering those ) . Called to our table . Sunday Roast at £15 a head was a huge disappointment the meats were lovely , I chose Pork for the CRISPY crackling , my weakness, it was soft and rubbery , vegetables /potatoes were undercooked and hard , therefore flavourless and flat Yorkshire , I left over half of the meal to me it was inedible . We asked for the Wine menu , this came too late , we had just a glass each instead , drinks were very slow . A very nice manager , other staff were very young and not attuned to customer needs , my partner had Beef , no salt /peppers , no offer of mustard or horseradish, Apple sauce would have been good with my pork instead of , I think , maybe it was Apricot purée . We went on to the Life boat for a last drink in the sunshine ( we walked as we live in East Cowes ) beautiful , perfect Sunday roasts were coming out at a far less price . Price doesn't bother me as a rule as long as it's worth it which sadly The Consort failed miserably .
Having decided to visit this very near and promising venue, we have come away feeling it is an experience not to be repeated or recommended! The food was decidedly average, capped by the extremely mean and dried up portions of cheese on the cheeseboard, with shrivled graped that were more like raisons! The starter was good, main course O.K.,dessert shockingly poor. Greg from masterchef would have found the creme anglaise too sweet! The response from the manager on duty was to offer us a drink, I suggested they remove the wine from the bill, but this was not forthcoming! We await a promised call from the general manager.For £60, we could have eaten much better in a pub, for half the price
Two couples having just spent 3 nights at Albert cottage, offer these comments. Restaurant dinners were largely pretty good, though starters & sweets remained the same for 3 consequently evenings. Main courses offered choice for two consecutive nights but remained unchanged for the third. These meals were all taken in the very pleasant main hotel dining room. Wines were fairly priced and adequate. The staff were young, enthusiastic and competant. Out of two nights dining we enjoyed a muzak free first evening.
I always thought the Albert Cottage has a lot of potential. As far as I am aware it is used as a catering college restaurant (?). That's why there is always a lot of charming but fairly inexperienced young staff. We have been eating at the Consorts Restaurant for 2/3 years but have not been that much recently. I felt the prices were hiked up too much and that they put themselves in competition with restaurants slightly out of their league. The staff knowledge about the wine list and menue has not improved over the years. Staff is always very polite and will ask someone else if they cannot give you an answere – but after all these years it would have been nice to see an improvement on food and beverage staff knowledge. We also had one mid week dinner just by ourselves – which feels not like millionaires dining but a bit odd. The Sunday lunches are always quite well attended and the food is nice and tasty. It is a good place to go with a group of friends or family for a weekend lunch.
Having visited Albert Cottage for a work function late last year I made the suggestion to Matt and Cat so that they would visit.
After us all arriving together we waited what seemed like an eternity to be greeted by someone to show us to the bar area. We were lead through a number of corridors all looking much the same and not seeming as if the decorators had quite finished their jobs there. A number of us looked at each other and our expectations were lowered.
The bar area was lovely though and the restaurant was decorated nicely.
The overpriced menu was offputting but we were told that as it was a special occasion it was not a problem.
The staff were eagre to please, largely due to the fact they seemed as though they were being kept an eye on.
All I can say is that the food was …alright. Certainly not worth the price tag attached to it and there are certainly better places to go to pay for food that is better quality and portion size. I have never been to dinner where I have left and gone home to raid the fridge (being 5'9 and 9 stone I'm not exactly a gannet)
Overall it was dissappointing and none of the guests within the function party were overly enthralled with it although the free flowing wine did help the party. We have decided that next year we will go somewhere else. I have suggested Burrs ar Lugleys which is around the same price bracket but a much more enjoyable experience.
I wont be repeating my visit to Albert Cottage and nor will I be recommending it either
As for the comment made about the photos. This was obviously made by someone who worked there. Perhaps instead of moaning about people having an opinion the people of Albert Cottage should look at improving instead. Perhaps once this has happened I might return, but certainly not until that point. Management should be aware of the points raised and try to make changes not 'slag off' those people who pay their wages.
Dave, I think you've missed the whole point of Matt and Cat's website!
It's their views of where they've eaten and that's all it is.
You happen to be the one with critical opinions, not them, it IS just their opinion.
Oh and me being critical, you have the worst spelling, grammar and punctuation I have ever seen, it's laughable and virtually illegible.
Matt and Cat, please keep up your excellent reviews. Your website encourages many of us readers to visit new places. Let's hope those who continue to knock you maybe create their own sites (or go and slag each other off on a car forum perhaps!)
doe's matt or cat? have good tast bud's? the food looked good!, shame about the quality of your photo's! get a quality camerer, before you critercise someone else's work, go prepared yourselves, photo's of food should be taken before you lump your veg on! the critic, made the dish look bad!


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At the Mater Foundation, we see the human side of the Mater Hospital every day.
The patients receiving exceptional care while receiving treatment have amazing stories to tell, that highlight not only their bravery in times of difficulty, but also the wonderful care of the doctors and nurses that helped them through it.
Take a look at their special stories in their own words.
"When I came back from holidays last year I couldn't even lie down. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't eat. So they kept me in and I was put on the heart transplant list. I stayed in the Mater for the whole time and two months later I got my transplant. I went walking in Howth recently. At one stage I turned around and I was like oh my God… I've just climbed all that way. A year ago I couldn't walk a flight of stairs and look what I've just done."
Ciara Craig, Dublin
"I was pretty much living on St Vincent's Ward and I don't know what to say about the girls working there. They were the most honest, loving, caring people you'll ever come across. They treated me like family, not as a young girl with cancer, who had to postpone her wedding. They kept me going in difficult times. They made it special to be on the ward."
Aisling McStay, Malahide
"Aengus was playing indoor soccer in Sligo, when he banged his head on a wall. He had a spinal injury and was sent to the Mater. It was a life-shattering experience, for him and for us. I asked a nurse about hotels nearby and she got us a room in the Mater hostel. We ended up staying there for two years. It was great to be near him, you know, to keep him occupied and read him the newspapers. It was just great to be able to have a cup of tea and a chat, we were a support to each other. I can't speak highly enough of the hostel and how important it is for people at a time like that. It's invaluable."
Kay Lyons, Aengus' mother
"It's a one in a million chance that you'll get this cancer in your spine. It was a benign tumour, but I started to lose power in my arms and ended up in hospital for 3 months. I'd so much radiotherapy, they didn't think I'd be able to have kids… but I got great support from everybody in the Mater. And on Valentine's Day this year, my baby was born!"
Ciara Ebbs, Dunboyne
"I was diagnosed on a Monday and started chemo on the Wednesday. The next day I shaved my head. I found losing my hair harder than the treatment itself. The tumor was taken out but there were still some cancer cells left. In the 6 week-break before the radiation, I did my leaving cert. I passed and am studying to be a nurse… being in the Mater gave me such admiration for them. I got such a good feeling I realised I wanted to do nursing and help other people."
Sarah O'Neill, Drogheda.
"They broke it to me that a heart transplant was a way out and it was just the same as if you'd hit me with a sledge, because like, my sister went through it and didn't come out the other side of it. I had to weigh it up, I mean, with three young kids… so anyway, 15th February 2012 I went on the list. The night it went ahead, there was tears in everyone's eyes, it wasn't just me and my family. But things worked out brilliantly. I'm forever grateful. I go hill-walking, climbing, cycling… I'm back doing all the stuff I did before and a lot more!"
Shane O'Connell, Kerry.
"It was 5 years ago today I received the gift of life through a heart transplant. I'm forever grateful to my donor and their family for giving me that gift so that I can go on and live life to the full now. Who knows what would have happened if a suitable donor had not come up."
Sarah Jordan, Cork.
"It's been 22 years since I was diagnosed with cancer and it's so important to have hope that you'll get better. After all has been done for me, the Mater Hospital has been very, very good. I was with Professor Carney in Oncology all the way through and it was every three months for nine to ten years I would go to the Mater. Then it was every six months, and now it's once per year I come back. After 22 years I am now am thankful to fund raise. It's raising awareness for other people who are just beginning their journey as I did all those years ago. We have had a Coffee Morning for the last 15 years. There's great local support up in Monaghan, and they are always happy to help the Mater Hospital."
Madge Murphy, Monaghan.
"I was never a day sick in my life. And I was never inside the door of a hospital, except to visit friends. It happened when my wife and I were in the States visiting Mark, our son. One day I was playing golf with Mark and a friend, who was an orthopedic surgeon. I'd noticed a bump, on the site on my arm where a mole had been, so I showed it to him. Later, a surgeon removed it and some lymph nodes. A week later I learned the lump was a malignant melanoma and I was told to investigate it further. Eventually I had a treatment whereby I had to inject myself in the stomach five times a week. That continued for a year and in July 2013 I was given the all-clear. But two months later another bump appeared and the consultant told me 'Tom there is no easy way to tell you this, but the melanoma is back'. The tumour on my arm had returned and I developed signs of cancer in my lungs, and things were looking pretty bleak. My consultant told me about clinical trials and two very specific drugs in tackling melanomas. In October 2013, I began an intensive course of treatment that lasted for six weeks. Afterwards the scans showed the lump had melted away and my lungs were clear. This treatment saved my life, there is no doubt about that. Melanoma is a very rapid cancer, so this breakthrough is far beyond anything they, or I, had hoped for. To have come through this, is a miracle of science."
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Amid Instability, Security Challenges, New Partnership for Africa's Development Critical to Continent's Socioeconomic Advancement, General Assembly Told
Speakers Welcome Free Trade Area, Other Steps towards Regional Integration
The New Partnership for Africa's Development � now fully embedded in the development paradigms of both the United Nations and the African Union � remained the rallying point in Africa's pursuit of growth, the General Assembly heard today, as delegates drew attention to security concerns and other obstacles still facing the continent.
Speakers stressed that the partnership, known as NEPAD, was particularly critical in the areas of social and economic development, with several welcoming the recent facilitation of a Tripartite Free Trade Area agreement aimed at harmonizing three sub regional blocs which previously had their own rules and models for trade. Meanwhile, others cited serious challenges facing Africa's security and stability � ranging from human and drug trafficking to terrorism and the illicit flow of resources away from the continent � and urged development partners to redouble their support for national and regional efforts to combat them.
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer of NEPAD, speaking on behalf of the African Union, expressed concern that Africa's inequality gap continued to widen, with negative repercussions for political stability, business, growth and social cohesion. Demographics especially youth and youth unemployment was a critical part of the continent's development, he said, noting that with a median age of 20, Africa must break the generation to generation poverty cycle that continued to trap many of its people. Indeed, some 440 million people on the continent would be entering the labour market by 2030, meaning that Africa must rapidly expand its efforts in job creation, entrepreneurship development and skills training. NEPAD was engaged in several such initiatives, he said, also describing its work in areas such as infrastructure, Internet connectivity and intra continental trade.
Miroslav Lajcak (Slovakia), President of the General Assembly, was among the many voices this morning hailing recent accomplishments in the global integration and regional streamlining of African trade. The Continental Free Trade Area is no longer a distant dream, he said, adding that it could very soon become a practical reality. While major hurdles remained across the continent, NEPAD was a strong sign of regional leadership in development, with the African Union, regional economic communities and sub regional organizations acting as engine rooms of progress. In an increasingly globalized world, no country or region could move forward alone, and efforts in Africa must be supported by a revitalized partnership for development.
Rwanda's representative, recalling that the Addis Ababa Action Agenda had established a strong foundation for the implementation of both the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union's Agenda 2063, cited notable socio economic progress made across Africa since the latter's adoption in 2015. Meanwhile, the recent Kigali Amendment to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change had reinforced those agendas by setting environmental targets and timeframes. Agriculture was an important path for Africa's sustainable development, she said, noting that an impactful transformation in that area would require strong coordination between partners in country led processes. Among other critical challenges were those related to peace and security, which necessitated stronger efforts in conflict prevention and responses to early warning signs of conflict.
Egypt's representative, also drawing attention to the peace and security nexus, highlighted Africa's leadership on those issues and the importance of maintaining its ownership over the development process. There can be no lasting security without inclusive development, he said, while peace, security and the rule of law underpinned by credible systems of democratic governance are prerequisites and indispensable factors and drivers of development. African countries had taken numerous steps to address security challenges, including establishing the Group of 5 Sahel force consisting of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger � as well deploying a Multinational Joint Task Force to end the Boko Haram insurgency and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
Libya's representative, also echoing concerns over security and stability, agreed that Africa would be unable to move forward in its development without addressing those crucial issues. Many countries on the continent, including Libya, regrettably continued to suffer from deteriorating security situations. Calling on Member States to urgently support African countries affected by conflict or emerging from it, he said his country suffered especially from instability resulting from transnational migrant flows, trafficking and other cross border issues. This is not a national or regional problem, and therefore the responsibility must not fall on transit countries alone, he stressed, noting that origin and destination countries must also work to address the phenomenon's root causes.
Sudan's delegate, voicing regret that conflicts and other security issues had adversely affected the prosperity of Africa's people, said climate change and its impacts on food security were another source of grave concern. African countries and the international community must work together to avoid the destructive impacts of that phenomenon. Echoing support for the continued integration of the 2030 Agenda into the continent's development plans, he said regional organizations such as the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) had an important role to play in that regard. Additionally, he called for a redoubling of efforts to establish a comprehensive, strategic partnership to fight terrorism and ensure political stability in Africa.
Delegates from Asia, Europe and other regions also expressed their support for NEPAD and reiterated their commitment to back development efforts on the African continent. India's representative, for one, spotlighted trade and diaspora links with Africa as well as a shared colonial past � and noted that the Africa India cooperative relationship included efforts to build capacity, mobilize financial support and share technical expertise. Indeed, trade between his country and Africa had doubled in the last five years, making India the continent's fourth largest trading partner.
Before the Assembly for that discussion was a report of the Secretary General titled, New Partnership for Africa's Development: fifteenth consolidated progress report on implementation and international support (document A/72/223), which outlined progress made in implementing NEPAD, spotlighted national and regional efforts to mainstream the 2030 Agenda and the African Union's Agenda 2063, listed recent accomplishments under the partnership and recommended more measures aimed at providing African countries with financing, trade, capacity development and technology transfer.
Also before the Assembly was a report of the Secretary General titled, Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (document A/72/269), covering the period from July 2016 to June 2017, which highlighted major developments related to peace and security and their links with sustainable development in Africa.
Also speaking were the representatives of Austria (on behalf of the Group of Friends of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development), Brunei Darussalam (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Kuwait, Thailand, Israel, the Russian Federation, Morocco, Indonesia, Mozambique, Turkey, Myanmar, Algeria, Ethiopia and the United Republic of Tanzania.
The Assembly will reconvene at 10 a.m. on Thursday, 26 October, to take up the report of the International Court of Justice.
Opening Remarks
MIROSLAV LAJCA�K (Slovakia), President of the General Assembly, said that since its adoption, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) had led to transformative change and big strides in the integration of African trade. The recent finalization of the Tripartite Free Trade Area agreement was an important step that would harmonize three sub regional blocs which previously had their own rules and models for trade. The Continental Free Trade Area is no longer a distant dream, he said, adding: It could very soon be a reality. Nevertheless, major hurdles remained and faster progress was required, not only in agriculture and trade, but also in a wide range of key areas, including infrastructure, industry, economic diversification and poverty eradication.
NEPAD, together with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063, should be harmonized and integrated, particularly regarding reporting, follow up and review, he said. No development in Africa could take hold unless it was led from within. The adoption of NEPAD was a strong sign of regional leadership in development, which was then reaffirmed through the African Union's adoption of Agenda 2063. The role of the African Union, regional economic communities and sub regional organizations had been indispensable and had acted as the engine rooms of progress in sustainable development, as well as in building African capacities in peace and security. There had also been many exciting developments at the national level, as well as on going efforts to integrate the goals and targets of international and regional frameworks into national development plans.
In an increasingly globalized world, no country or region could move forward alone, he stressed. Efforts in Africa must be supported by a revitalized partnership for development, and in that context, there needed to be closer partnerships between Africa and its development partners, including United Nations bodies and Member States. Official development assistance (ODA) and other commitments were crucial to enhance finance, technology transfer and market access, while there must be investment incentives at the national, regional and international levels. Development in Africa can never be seen as a standalone activity, he stressed, highlighting that the trade agreement would be hindered without efforts to address the root causes of conflict. Foreign direct investment is not on the mind of someone who is running from a shower of bullets, he said.
PHILIPP CHARWATH (Austria), speaking on behalf of the Group of Friends of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development, said the role of industrialization as a catalyst for sustainable development had been well established and was reflected in the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Welcoming efforts by the NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of South Africa and other partners to develop a roadmap for Africa to achieve short , medium and long term industrialization, as well as efforts by the Group of 20 (G 20) nations to support such initiatives through investment promotion and capacity building, he said the United Nations should also play its role in assisting countries.
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in particular, had a leading role to play in close cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank and the United Nations Office for Africa, he said. Among other things, UNIDO assisted developing countries in designing and implementing industrial policies and enhancing local productive capacities and entrepreneurship, and its technical assistance contributed to job creation, advancing economic competitiveness and enabling market access, while also advancing the diffusion of environmentally sound technologies and production practices.
IHAB MOUSTAFA AWAD MOUSTAFA (Egypt), speaking on behalf of the African Group, said the peace and development nexus was particularly evident in the two reports of the Secretary General. As the world is pursuing the new milestone in the global partnership for development [] it is imperative to continue to place Africa at the centre of United Nations efforts to eradicate poverty, he said, as well as to address the impacts of climate change and ensure inclusive economic growth and sustainable development. Eradicating poverty remained the greatest development challenge for African countries, where half the world's poor people lived. Expressing concern over the fact that two years into the 2030 Agenda's implementation global hunger was again on the rise and affected some 815 million people, he said efforts should focus on the necessary means of implementation, including financial resources, technology transfer and capacity building. The scale must be ambitious enough to meet the aspirations of the Sustainable Development Goals, he stressed, adding that developed countries should fulfil their commitments as laid out in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, including those related to ODA.
While international support was important, he continued, African ownership of the development process was critical and is not just a mere concept. African countries had taken the primary responsibility for their own development, and their experience with the Millennium Development Goals had shown that significant advances had been made with African nations leading the way. Nevertheless, systemic issues had affected the continent's rates of economic growth and international support was not sufficient to bring about a significant reduction in unemployment and poverty levels, nor in advancing other goals. The challenges facing Africa today traversed peace, security and development, he stressed, noting that there can be no lasting security without inclusive development and peace, security and the rule of law underpinned by credible systems of democratic governance are prerequisites and indispensable factors and drivers of development. African countries had taken numerous steps to address peace and security challenges at national and regional levels, including establishing the Group of 5 Sahel force, consisting of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, the Multinational Joint Task Force and the deployment of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Partners must enhance their support for such peace and security activities, as no country or region could resolve those challenges alone.
DATO ABDUL GHAFAR ISMAIL (Brunei Darussalam), speaking on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said it was encouraging to see many African countries intensify their efforts and seize opportunities to accelerate progress towards durable peace, security and development. Reaffirming its solidarity with Africa, ASEAN supported NEPAD's implementation, which would provide a strong foundation for Agenda 2063. ASEAN was exploring ways to promote synergies and complementarities between its ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and the 2030 Agenda, he said, adding that there was ample scope for greater collaboration between the two regions on mutual concerns and sustainable development.
Noting that ASEAN and African countries had an enduring friendship dating back to the 1955 Asian African Conference in Bandung, he said ASEAN and its member States stood ready to exchange ideas and share experiences in such areas as agriculture, education, information and communications technologies and innovation, trade and infrastructure development. Emphasizing that a supportive international environment was vital for Africa's development, he said development partners, international financial institutions, regional and sub regional organizations and the international community, especially the United Nations, must redouble efforts to ensure sustainable peace and development on the continent.
SURYANARAYAN SRINIVAS PRASAD (India) said that Agenda 2063 was mutually reinforcing with the 2030 Agenda and embraced the core priorities of NEPAD. International cooperation remained a key element in Africa's quest to achieve peace and prosperity. Africa had made rapid strides in recent years � poverty rates had fallen, infrastructure connectivity had improved and economies were more diversified, while banking, telecommunications and retail had expanded, life expectancies had increased, school enrolment had grown and more women were being elected to political office. Africa's demographic dividend could be reaped by providing the youth with greater opportunities for education and employment. Trade and diaspora links as well as a shared colonial past had framed India's relationship with Africa. The core strength of the Africa India cooperative relationship included efforts aimed at capacity building, the mobilization of financial support and the sharing of technical expertise. He noted that Africa India trade had doubled in the last five years, making India the fourth largest trading partner for Africa. Further, he highlighted that the African Development Bank had held its annual board meeting in India.
Mr. ALMUNAYER (Kuwait) expressed hope that the long term development visions of the 2030 Agenda and the 2063 Agendas would be implemented to bring prosperity to Africa. The harmony and inter dependence of the two development plans provided a common path to reach Africa's aims. Insufficient financial support, the spread of weapons and transnational crime, and the trafficking of resources were all impediments to development in Africa and undermined progress aimed at achieving development goals. The recommendations in the Secretary General's report, including those on good governance, the rule of law, the protection of the rights of women, the promotion of peacebuilding efforts and the pursuit of an Africa free of conflict, must be implemented. He went on to point out that the Kuwait Development Fund had loaned some $20 billion thus far to 106 countries around the world; and that African countries had received 18 per cent of that funding.
VALENTINE RUGWABIZA (Rwanda), noting that the Addis Agenda had established a strong foundation to support the implementation of both the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063, said the recent Kigali Amendment to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change reinforced those agendas by setting environmental targets and timeframes. Throughout the continent, notable socio economic progress had been made since 2015, including through the African Union's recent finalization of the Tripartite Free Trade Area agreement. Agriculture was an important path for Africa's sustainable development, she said, noting that an impactful transformation in that area would require strong coordination between partners in country led processes. The continent still faced challenges, and development could not be sustained amidst conflict. She therefore underscored the nexus between security and development, as well as the importance of conflict prevention and response to early warning signals with rapid interventions to protect civilians. The Joint United Nations African Union Framework for Enhancing Partnership on Peace and Security was an important blueprint for boosting coordination between those two organizations, she said.
OMAR A. A. ANNAKOU (Libya), associating himself with the African Group, said Agenda 2063 was a human centred plan for achieving Africa's sustainable development. Its goals, as well as those of the 2030 Agenda, must be translated into regional and national policies, while taking into account national priorities and local and cultural specificities. Despite strong efforts and some progress, Africa was still facing many challenges in implementing the 2030 Agenda, including poverty, violence, conflicts, climate change, capital outflows, migration and more. The continent also suffered from high unemployment, low education levels and a lack of basic services. Donor countries must honour their commitments to the continent and support its countries in strengthening economic stability and attracting investment, he said, adding that this will lead to true human resource development in Africa.
Calling for efforts to ensure Africa's youth were educated and empowered, he went on to say that, many African countries, including Libya, regrettably continued to suffer from deteriorating security situations. Development was impossible without security and vice versa, he stressed, calling on Member States to urgently support African countries affected by conflict or emerging from it. The African continent cannot move forward with development without enjoying peace, security and stability, he said, noting that Libya suffered in particular from instability resulting from transnational migrant flows, trafficking and other cross border issues. This is not a national or regional problem, and therefore the responsibility must not fall on transit countries alone. Origin and destination countries must also work to address the phenomenon's root causes. Member States must not serve as havens for the trillions of dollars of illicit financial flows that continued to haemorrhage from Africa, he added, warning that corruption would continue until such havens were eradicated.
VIRACHAI PLASAI (Thailand), associating himself with ASEAN and the Group of 77 developing countries and China, noted the similarities between Asia and Africa's development challenges. Having become a donor country, Thailand was committed to extending its regular support and assistance to Africa through various forms of cooperation, including scholarships, training and local to local knowledge transfers. Through the Thailand Africa Partnership for Sustainable Development, it sought to share with its African friends the late King Bhumibol's homegrown approach to sustainable development. It was also sharing its health care experience and know how, particularly in areas related to epidemics and rural healthcare management.
NOA FURMAN (Israel) said that the relationship between Israel and Africa had never been stronger. African nations faced many of the same challenge as Israel and both sought to use human capital to create sustainable solutions. Through its Agency for International Development Cooperation, Israel worked with African partner countries, United Nations agencies, civil society and the private sector to further education and training. In December 2016, Israel hosted a three day ministerial conference with African agriculture ministers, followed by a training session on applied research for agriculture experts. Knowledge gained from those seminars would be useful in making progress on the African Union's vision of providing support for 25 million farming households employing climate smart agriculture practices by 2025. She went on to note the non governmental organization Innovation Africa that was working to bring Israeli solar energy and water technologies to remote African villages.
SERGEY B. KONONUCHENKO (Russian Federation) said that despite continued weak economic growth and crisis situations on the continent, African countries were demonstrating resolute commitment to achieving the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063. It was concerning that the Secretary General's report noted a 3 per cent decrease in foreign direct investment to the continent in 2016. African countries must have support in achieving the 2030 Agenda, without which there was a real threat that the progress achieved in recent years would stall. The Russian Federation continuously provided support to Africa through inter governmental initiatives, and had forgiven more than 20 billion in African debt, while also using innovative mechanisms to ease African debt burden. Further, his Government had carried out projects to ensure food security and improve industrial and transport infrastructure through international programmes and other specialized United Nations bodies. He went on to underscore that his Government was one of the first to react and respond to the Ebola outbreak. The future of Africa was dependent on the development of the production and trade potential of the continent, he said, adding that his delegation welcomed the establishment of the Technology Bank for Least Development Countries.
OMAR HILALE (Morocco), stressing that only African action based on regional integration would help the continent overcome challenges to sustainable development, said those actions included the financing of the NEPAD programme. Indeed, the funding capacity of many African countries remained limited and resource challenges were compounded by difficult access to international markets and decreasing development assistance. Calling for enhanced partnerships to overcome those issues, he said promoting investment, bolstering technology transfer, improving market access and providing debt relief, among other actions, were critical. Strengthening the private sector was also crucial to boosting income and job opportunities. Another important issue was agricultural adaptation, which was critical to ensuring Africa's food security, and was closely related to the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Recalling that, in a meeting on the margins of the twenty second Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Marrakesh, African Heads of State and Government had committed to supporting such adaptation, he said those efforts would focus in particular on combating desertification and improving the resilience of farmers. The promotion of South South cooperation would also be essential, he said, outlining a major upswing in Morocco's own cooperation with countries across the African continent.
INA HAGNININGTYAS KRISNAMURTHI (Indonesia), associating herself with ASEAN, said the impacts of the global financial crisis still cast a shadow over many countries, with the pace of recovery uneven around the world. While 2.6 per cent growth in Africa was expected this year, more rapid growth was needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. There must be enhanced international cooperation to mobilize development financing for Africa, as well as initiatives to generate inclusive and sustained growth. Collaboration between the United Nations and Africa vis A� vis sustainable development must also be enhanced. Noting that Indonesia had always been a true partner for African countries, she said it would host the Indonesia Africa Forum in 2018 to explore economic opportunities, strengthen technical cooperation and enhance the existing partnership between both sides.
ANTA�NIO GUMENDE (Mozambique), associating himself with the African Group, said that while the modest increase in ODA to Africa from $54.3 billion in 2014 to $56.6 billion in 2015 � was encouraging, the continued decline in foreign direct investment was of concern, considering its important role in infrastructure development. Agriculture continued to be a source of survival in Africa, particularly in rural areas where the majority of Africans lived. In that context, the need to modernize agriculture would be crucial to efforts to eradicate poverty. His country remained committed to encouraging the participation of all stakeholders in recognition of the essential role of community empowerment in improving the welfare of the most vulnerable, as well as in the protection of the environment. Agriculture development, food security and nutrition goals demanded investment capacity to create national resilience as well as holistic multisector coordination. Providing quality health care was another important undertaking in Mozambique, including child immunizations and treatment for HIV/AIDS and malaria.
FERIDUN H. SINIRLIOGLU (Turkey) said his country's Africa Partnership Policy fully embraced the principle of African solutions to African issues. Those countries and Governments had the best knowledge to address their own challenges, he said, outlining Turkey's support in such areas as infrastructure development, humanitarian assistance and the maintenance of security and stability. Since 2005, Turkey had multiplied its ODA to sub Saharan Africa by more than 100 times, and it was engaged in several projects relating to macroeconomic management, health, urbanization, agriculture and education. It also collaborated with small and medium sized enterprises to carry out sustainable development projects related to industrialization and job creation, and organized training programmes around the continent and in Turkey.
HAU DO SUAN (Myanmar) associating himself with ASEAN, called NEPAD a collective vision and strategic framework for African countries. His Government was encouraged by the impressive progress of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa, which targeted 16 cross border projects. Asia and Africa were continents of opportunities and challenges, he underscored. Given the similarity of the two continent's development paths, Myanmar recognized the tremendous potential for future collaboration in many areas through South South cooperation and the New Asian African Strategic Partnership. Myanmar was a leading country when it came to building friendship and solidarity among Asian and African countries, and in that regard, Myanmar would continue to stand firmly in support of NEPAD's objectives of political stability, economic growth and sustainable development.
SABRI BOUKADOUM (Algeria), associating himself with the African Group, said the international community should support Africa in creating sustainable growth based on domestic production, effective tax collection and strengthened capacity building. The continent also required improved market access, particularly among developed countries, he said, calling on those nations to show more openness in supporting Africa's development efforts and its inclusion in the international system. Economic stabilization measures, as proposed by some voices in rich countries, might impede Africa's contribution to the world economy. He said progress in combating poverty in Africa was hampered by several factors, including a multitude of crises, the effects of natural disasters, climate change and volatile commodity prices. However, the continent's resilience could and must be strengthened, he said, calling on Africa's partners to support Agenda 2063 and continental programmes embedded in NEPAD. He went on to outline initiatives including the Trans Sahara Highway project and the installation of 4,500 kilometres of terrestrial optic fibre, both linking Algeria and Nigeria.
MAHLET HAILU GUADEY (Ethiopia) said that since 2000, Africa had registered encouraging economic growth which had reduced poverty, but the continent still faced multiple challenges. African leaders had therefore endorsed the Agenda 2063 in order to build an integrated, prosperous and peaceful continent. The Agenda 2063 was African led and African owned and was fully aligned with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda. In realizing the Agenda 2063 vision, special attention must be given to silencing the guns. Development was the prerequisite for ensuring sustainable peace and security. It was important to enhance financial, technological and capacity building support to the 2030 and 2063 Agendas in a more coordinated and enhanced manner and cooperation and coordination between the United Nations and the African Union should be further coordinated, he said.
MODEST MERO (United Republic of Tanzania) associated himself with the African Group and said that African countries were determined to eradicate poverty and guarantee prosperity for their peoples. Africans had always addressed challenges through a common purpose and solidarity. He stressed the importance of implementing the 2030 Agenda, Agenda 2063 and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. African countries intended to support the Secretary General's reform agenda and to address peace and security challenges through regional initiatives and partnerships with the international community. Addressing infrastructure development on the continent, investment in industrialization and value addition would be essential for putting the continent on the right track.
HAMID MOHAMED ELNOUR AHMED (Sudan), associating himself with the African Group, said that Africa's contributions to human civilization had been proven, yet the continent had been left behind when it came to recent industrialization and development. Unfortunately, the continent had grown into a region of conflicts, which had resulted in great destruction and adversely affected the prosperity of the African people. Climate change and its impacts on food security were of grave concern for the African people and in that regard, the international community must work together to avoid the destructive impacts of that phenomenon. The 2030 Agenda was a roadmap for development in Africa, and in that context, regional organizations including the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) had an important role to play in reaching those development objectives. He went on to call for a redoubling of efforts to establish a comprehensive, strategic partnership to fight terrorism and ensure political stability in Africa.
IBRAHIM ASSANE MAYAKI, Chief Executive Officer of the New Partnership for Africa's Development Agency, speaking on behalf of the African Union, said NEPAD was embedded in the latter's Agenda 2063 and served as the rallying point in Africa's pursuit of transformation and growth. NEPAD was especially critical in areas related to social and economic empowerment, he stressed, noting that his Agency was set to become the African Union's development agency in the context of its recent reform efforts. Key to Africa's sustainable development was the issue of demographics, especially youth and youth unemployment. Indeed, it was not enough to expand gross domestic product (GDP) levels if such progress was not accompanied by growth and transformative changes in jobs, economic opportunities, access to education and other human development strides. With a median age of 20, Africa must break the generation to generation poverty cycle that continued to trap many of its people. In that vein, he recalled that the African Union had dedicated 2017 to making progress on the issue of youth unemployment, and noted that some 440 million people on the continent would enter the labour market by 2030.
Outlining the NEPAD Agency's initiatives in such areas as employment creation and entrepreneurship development, he said Africa needed to rapidly expand its capacity to offer skills and vocational training to its young people and women. The expansion of African trade � including intra continental trade � was equally critical, he said, spotlighting the need to accelerate progress on the policy front. Changes were necessary in such areas as customs procedures, visa restrictions and bringing to full ratification the use of the single African Passport, as well as enhancing the form, quality and diversity of transboundary goods and services. Describing other initiatives aimed at improving Africa's railways and expanding its Internet connectivity, he said the issue of wealth distribution was also a critical one. The continent's inequality gap continued to widen, which was bad for political stability, business, growth and social cohesion. In that regard, the NEPAD Agency was discussing transformative action within a clear medium to long term plan, while also working with African Union member States and other actors to foster a better domestic understanding of inequality.
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I had evidence that I need to continually learn new things this past week.
Until I moved into my house in Massachusetts, I had lived my life with heat coming through natural gas pipes or electric wires to my place of residence. Maybe when I was 0-5 we had coal, but that is a vague memory and I wasn't responsible for ordering the coal.
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