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Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV – From May 2006 up to before the earthquake hit, Dlo Pwop and Washington, D.C.-based partner International Action had jointly installed 140 chlorinators on water tanks in neighborhoods, schools, orphanages, and hospitals throughout Port-au-Prince, providing over 400,000 Haitians previously exposed to waterborne diseases like cholera, typhoid, hepatitis, and chronic diarrhea with a supply of clean, safe water.

However, Haiti’s public water network suffered extensive damage during the quake, and many Haitians still remain without a reliable clean water supply. After the quake, Dlo Pwop rented local water tankers, filled them from wells and chlorinated their contents, and distributed 90 truckloads-each carrying 3,100 gallons-of safe, potable water to the poorest parts of Port-au-Prince, including its largest slum, Cité Soleil. Community-based staff also conducted a quick assessment and identified undamaged water storage reservoirs and tanks throughout the city. Dlo Pwop is now leasing 24 private reservoirs, which on average can hold at least 3,000 gallons each. The group has negotiated with owners to fill the reservoirs and to distribute chlorinated water to local residents on a daily basis. This strategy will reach tens of thousands who would otherwise have no source of clean water to use.

Leading disaster response and humanitarian aid organizations including the Red Cross, Mercy Corps, and UNICEF have recognized water as the top priority in saving lives and preventing diseases following the earthquake. In the absence of potable water, there is a danger that earthquake survivors will resort to drinking water sources contaminated by human waste, garbage, or industrial byproducts.

While it will take time to repair Port-au-Prince’s damaged water systems, Dlo Pwop and International Action is securing an initial purchase of 34 larger tanks each with a 2,000-gallon storage capacity to replace those lost. Dlo Pwop/International Action is also developing a plan for rebuilding and repairing tanks and chlorinators destroyed or rendered unusable by the quake, in addition to adding water storage in neighborhoods currently without water tanks.

Dlo Pwop and International Action’s work is supported and warmly welcomed by CAMEP-the Port-au-Prince water department-and increased logistical support from the US military, humanitarian organizations, and private donors could greatly augment Dlo Pwop/International Action’s ability to provide clean water and save lives in Haiti today. Those interested in assisting these efforts can reach International Action at info ( @ ) HaitiWater dot org or (202)488-0735 dot Staff include Lindsay Mattison, Youngmin Chang, and Jeffery Sejour (Jeff speaks Creole) dot In Haiti, call Dalebrun Esther at (509) 554-5549 and (509) 3712-6918 dot Chlorinators are made by Norweco in Norwalk, OH, and chlorine tablets are made by Arch Chemicals in Norwalk, CT dot

So if you have a company that is not on the Internet, now is the time to catch the wave of the future. Without it the competition will become even tougher. With it, a business can grow and prosper in ways not otherwise possible.

The options available to build a web site and create an online presence basically boil down to two possibilities. First, hire it done. Second, do it yourself. Consider the pros and cons of both.

Paying a service has clear pluses. Find the right provider and you get instant expertise and a polished finished product. The downsides are obvious. Hire the wrong provider and, as is the case with anything else, you will not get anything that is anywhere near your money’s worth.

In either case, it will cost a bundle and unless you can deal with the inevitable glitches and break downs in house, the ongoing expenses can be quite high.

More significantly, you can easily become dependent on that outside resource which may or may not be reliable, dependable or, for that matter, even remain in business. Under such conditions, when your supplier fails, you fail.

The do it yourself option keeps you in the self reliant category and keeps your expenses down at a minimum level. Thus when something needs to be done it can be attended to quickly and inexpensively.

On the other hand, if you do not, as is the case with most folks, have any expertise on web site design, creation and maintenance, it will require some time and focus to get there. In other words, you will have to learn how to do the required tasks yourself.

That can become problematic in terms of finding the right provider that teaches the basics and also supplies the resources necessary to get the job done. All along doing so in an easy to understand manner and at minimal cost.

When going this route, look for an established resource that is available online, provides all of the support required to get your questions answered, includes access to others doing the same work so that best practices can be shared, has web hosting, provides a user friendly step by step web site builder, has links to the most helpful Internet sites for add ons and can provide testimonials as well as examples of actual, functioning successful operations.

At the end of the day, do what works best in your setting. There are plenty of people for hire who can do the work for you. But if you are independent minded and prefer to be self reliant, an example of an excellent learning resource is linked below. Click on that link and see what you think.

But most importantly, do not get left behind. Start a web site for your business now. The longer you delay, the more you fall behind the curve. See you online.

In our world today, if a business does not have an Internet presence it is losing ground rapidly to an increasingly sophisticated marketplace.

The paradigm has shifted and the more traditional ways of doing business are quickly fading off the radar of consumers. Ignoring or abhorring technology equates to being left behind in the parking lot while those doing business online have already left the terminal.

The future is all about what the world wide web brings to the table in terms of competing in the free market. The old methods of advertising are fading fast. Customers prefer the convenience of online shopping to the ever increasing hassle and expense of traveling to a brick and mortar business location.

The number of prospective customers in the immediate area around a business location pales in comparison to the shopping audience online. The web numbers are exponentially larger.

To be off line in today’s world of commerce is to be guaranteed that a business will fall behind the curve and only fade back even further as time passes.

The web offers marketing, sales, service, information and communication opportunities that heretofore have simply not existed. The future promises even more of the same with an even greater emphasis on speed and convenience.

Job Classified sites are very special, and when they happen to be free, then they become all the more special. There are different job classified sites which are advertising free ads for different requirements. These sites are visited regularly by aspiring candidates.

No Expense sites: Jobs are searched by millions of people. Most Companies do not want to spend on advertising for small budget job-vacancies. These jobs are put forth as classified ads
in free job classified sites. These jobs are filled instantly due to regular visits of the visitors.

Instant Search: Visitors are always in search of related jobs. They keep searching at different free job-classified sites. These sites have special job-classified section. Visitors can click-on this section and get instant search results.

Unique: Job-sites are operating at the cost of Companies. They keep paying to prominent job-sites for references. However job classifieds are those domains which enable free advertising and free access to the visitors. This way they are unique and different.

IT job classifieds: IT sector is booming and most graduates and professionals
are searching desired jobs in IT-sector. IT Companies are always in need of jobs. They come out with different job-requirements to get the4 desired professional at lowest possible cost. These Companies advertise on the free classified job sites and get lots of aspiring candidates for them.

There will be an unveiling of ideas of special apprenticeship programs and a sharing of other organizational information designed to stop the critical plight of ignorance and devastation engaging many young people.

The CEO/President of an industrial, environmental cleaning and pro-construction company called Starr Touch Enterprises has developed a somewhat unoriginal but interesting take in assuring success of many at-risk youth.  The awareness that many behaviors occur within a scope of environmental events proves to be evident.  Starr Touch has inducted a small segment of its company to the training, education and awareness, advocating social skills groups geared towards many of the troubled youth in today’s society; this segment is Starr Youth. Starr Youth is the non-profit, affiliate core-training piece to Starr Touch Enterprises. They pride themselves on the many activities, as well as, great ideas undergirded by a commitment to workforce training and entrepreneurial opportunities for disadvantaged youth.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, written in 2003, youths in the U.S. represent 26 % of the population and account for 50% of the victims of violent acts. Research shows that regular exposure to violence is associated with psychological difficulties, language and development skills associated with poor education and juvenile justice problems.  According to (The U.S. Department of Education, 1997) and (Dodge, Pettit, Bates, 1997; Kendall-Tackett, Williams & Finkelhor, 1993) “exposure to community violence is twice more likely amongst African Americans than any other race.”  Because of these statistics and known facts, Starr Youth seeks funding and many other avenues in order to train and educate youth. By providing life skills training before placing youths in jobs that are both contracted and affiliated with Starr Touch Enterprises Inc., they are able to provide the tools needed for future success. Starr Touch Enterprises aspires to help young people achieve self-esteem and confidence, while developing a sense of civic responsibility. Because many of the contracts require security background checks, most of the jobs geared for at-risk youth, are through small private owned businesses such as beauty salons, barbershops, carpet cleaning companies, auto shops, and small construction sites that are guided by apprenticeship programs.

One might ask what an apprentice is.  In chapter 4 of the summary by T.H. Hawkins, under the caption, What apprentices are not, an apprentice is “a trade or occupation where formal training over a specified period is given and is allied to the provision of facilities for study leading to a City and Guilds, or qualification.”

According to Mr. Hawkins his summary entitled, What is an apprentice? ‘The term “apprenticeship” has lost the weight it had when it was originally conceived in the sixteenth century, and has now (…) become a blanket term. It covers: temporary and transient –assembly line work (…) and “genuine apprentices” – including craft/trade.’

Starr Touch’s goal in developing Starr Touch Enterprises and its core-training piece, Starr Youth is to create and develop more of the exact jobs that Hawkins mentions, for at-risk youth that will offer the necessary, blue-collar jobs derived from yesterday’s hands-on skill set; these blue -collar jobs have vanished from vocational schools and many other learning environments.

There have been and are currently in place, organizations and programs with ideas and information designed to stop the devastation surrounding many youth. Through numerous out-reach programs, Starr Touch is able to reach many of the young people who would normally have fallen through the cracks and crevices that are often prevalent when faced with neediness and neglect. In the summary referencing the 21st Century Youth article, The Department of Labor introduced a program through the Employment and Training Administration’s office of Workforce Investment Division of Youth Services, and began a YouthBuild program in September of 2006. The program provided job training and education opportunities for at-risk youth.  Much like what they do in Starr Touch Enterprises and Starr Youth, YouthBuild split their time between the construction sites and the classroom, where they encourage youth to achieve GED and high school diplomas. Starr Touch Enterprises currently has a website, www.starrtouch.biz, where one can see, first hand, many of the youth in construction training where a few of the apprenticeship programs are in force.

Many organizations provide programs and funding for disadvantaged youth all over the country.  Some of these organizations are in our back yards.  A very good friend, Binx Watts, heads charity golf tournaments every year for inner-city youths; these tournaments have since become very popular.  In an article written by Thomas-Lester, The Washington Post (2007) Binx embarks on his journey in creating and developing the TeeMac Golf Inner City Park Heights Junior Golf Clinic.  Park Heights, an urban area in Baltimore where I personally grew up, has longed been plagued with poverty and violence. Through the game of Golf, Binx and his non-profit organization, TeeMac, is able to provide troubled youth with the exposure necessary for future success, by taking youth off the streets and into structural learning and achieving environments.

As mentioned in the previous paragraph of the 21st Century Youth article, The (ETA) Employment and Training Administration is one of many organizations that offer continuous and relevant studies and job preparation, while connecting youth to many educational opportunities. The abstract summary entitled, Programs Put Teens on a Path to Success, talked to Clayton Muhammad, an advocate for troubled youth primarily in and around his own community.  Muhammad talked about one youngster who was born addicted to crack and how this same youth is a senior class president today because of a program that he created for youths. Muhammad talks about another organization for girls called Diamonds, which is a service fraternity.  The fraternity brings together the sharing of opportunities that aspire to develop, grow and further achieve greatness and success for the Latino and the African-American teen. It is a program that links the two cultures in an attempt to find growth and development while achieving the many goals that often excel through a common bond.

In closing, one can only envision the advantages in educating and training at-risk youths for jobs in today’s environments.  In a collective effort through the many past and present businesses, organizations and programs, there are possibilities of unlimited greatness that can become normalcy for the many aspiring entrepreneurs, environmental developers, maintenance workers and construction workers destined to become the future for the many youths in today’s environments. A curriculum for child-care providers called Teaching Social Skills To Youth by Tom Dowd and Jeff Tierney, it is said that, “Ideally, lessons learned at each stage in a child’s development become the tools that are used to successfully meet the demands of subsequent stages of life.”   It is the concept of Starr Touch Enterprises and its core non-profit piece, to acknowledge the complexities of the human social behavior and to remedy those complexities with techniques in life skills training and development.  It is time that we allow the rapid development of businesses like Starr Touch Enterprises to expose young and troubled youth dwelling in many environments, to the avenues of learning from technologies near and far.  Whether it is computers or cell phones, the idea is to reach beyond their emotional IQ’s so that they may engage themselves in the vigilance of achievement.

Through creative job experience transpired in environments such as barbershops and beauty solons, Starr Youth can provide hands-on training and work experience for both males and females; it is those elements that will develop the level of integration youth will be able to intervene, from the teaching and training by responsible role models.  Starr Touch Enterprises is aware of the important and vital fact that many of the young people will have to be motivated and in doing so, has created such alternative sports activities such as basketball, golf, baseball and football amongst other things.  Our youths are able to choose their level of comfort and participation while acquiring the necessary life and development skills that are detrimental to the learning and achieving process.

Starr Touch Enterprises through Starr Youth hopes to off- set the many negative aspects that dwell in the environments that drive, feed and add to the critical plight of ignorance and devastation engaging many of today’s youth.

Because of the many problems of substance abuse, gangs, family crises, and economic pressures that surround many young people, responsible adults face the challenge in providing avenues and opening doors of opportunity and hope for many at-risk youth. There are several advantages in educating and training at-risk youth for jobs in today’s environments.  The benefits will not only improve and change the status of many troubled youth, but will pave the way for the next generation of entrepreneurs, environmental developers, maintenance workers and construction builders that will aid in making the future world a better place to live.  This paper will explain a company’s personal agenda regarding their own business endeavors in an attempt to circulate social skills and techniques that are necessary for troubled youth, as well as, reveal the accomplishments and the many creative ideas developed by a friend. This paper will offer some discussions and ideas as to how a particular company intends to improve and change the status of many disadvantaged youth through concepts of social skills that are sometimes elusive and difficult to assess.

Shoats (Goats and Sheep) have already started to die and according to the local elders “this is the first month of the dry season and shoats have started to die and many families are going to loose their animal herds to this drought since many are already in poor body shape due to their deteriorating body condition and increased prevalence of diseases that is killing the already weakened animals”.

The local community and the local regional administration are alarmed with the rate of the current animal deaths, when in fact this is the first month of the dry season. The fear is that; their will be large livestock deaths in the current dry season which is showing signs of drought because of the total absence of pasture and water for the animals.

Livestock herders and their animals are increasingly involved in tracking long distances in order to reach the appropriate watering points and livestock grazing areas, as a result many animals are being lost due to their poor body condition and disease attacks in the absence of good feed and many succumb to early deaths on their way to a better pasture and browse.

Weak animals are increasingly being left at homesteads, since they can not make the long distances involved to reach the pasture and watering areas, and many pastoral families are forced to care for this weak animals by providing water and animal feed at home which is an extra burden to the already struggling families who are unable to feed their household members because the animals are not producing milk and there is no local livestock market in which to obtain a good value for the sale of their animals, most traders will in-fact not buy the animals in the market because of their poor body conditions.

The ability of the pastoral community to withstand these adverse effect of the current hazards and shocks of the would-be drought is greatly reduced because of many intricate issues like poor roads, poor markets for the livestock, lack of animal health facilities and resources to increase animal production, and above all because of the absence of

Multi-sectored agency interventions, in key areas of livestock improvement, in addition to the long standing negative perception of pastoralism by the top decision makers.

The government of Ethiopia released a Humanitarian Requirement Document (HRD) on 2 February indicating that some 5.2 Million people will require emergency food assistance for a period of 6-9 months. The document also provides estimates of non-food emergency requirements in health and nutrition, water and sanitation, education and agriculture sectors on the basis of the multi-agency assessment conducted in November/December 2009.

The HRD indicates that the overall poor performance of GU rains in 2009, followed by below average Deyr rains in most parts of Somali region and the lowlands of Eastern Oromia, has lead to further deterioration of the food security situation.

Accordingly, the finding of the multi-agency assessment and subsequent monitoring results indicate that approximately 5.2 Million people will require relief food assistance in 2010. WFP the largest Humanitarian agency in Ethiopia is now planning to target 5.2 million beneficiaries rather than 4.2 million which the agency planned for based on an earlier need assessment. Out of the total projected 5.2 million beneficiaries, the HRD shows that 26.7 percent are from Somali Region of Ethiopia; 20.8 percent from Oromia Region; and 19 percent from Amhara Region.

There is also a fear that a considerable number of school children will drop out of school these year because of the drought related problems that is forcing their families to go further away from school area’s and into the interior to save their livestock holdings and search for better pasture, browse and water for their animals. In areas in which World Food Program (WFP) is implementing school feeding program; student enrollment and retention rate has been seen to be more than satisfactory as the school meals have been an incentive enough for the parents to keep their children enrolled at the local WFP supported schools.

Hence it’s necessary for the government of Ethiopia, the international Donors and community and the local Non Governmental Organizations to embark on concerted efforts to help prevent the loss of assets by the pastoralist to the looming drought by helping the community to build a strong livelihood income that cushions them from the negative impacts of the recurrent droughts and other natural and man made hazards.

By: Ibrahim Rashid

Looming Drought In Somali Region of Ethiopia.

Entire households and communities are migrating from one woreda/district to the neighboring zones or across the border to Somalia as the pastoral communities are facing critically low water and food supplies, due in large part to the long running recurrent droughts caused by the erratic and poor performance of the last two years seasonal rainfalls, the situation is further compounded by the cost of food which is still high from last years spike in prices, poor investment in livestock improvement and insufficient preparation for such crises.

Water availability is much below normal through out the region and water trucking activities have already started in kebele’s and villages of most zones of Somali region were the Birkas are empty and dry. Western part of the region bordering Oromia is reported to have below normal amount of water that will last the community for less than one and half months, there after the whole area will require an urgent water trucking operations.

The lack of water was caused by the poor and early cessation of the last Deyr rainfall which contrary to the expectation of the early warning experts who predicted that; the Deyr rains of October, November and December will be heavy with El-Nino rains thus alleviating the severing of the farmers and pastoral communities in Eastern and Horn of Africa region who have endured three long years of poor or no rainfall which triggered long dry spells.

Failure of the last Deyr rainfall has contributed to the lack of pasture regeneration as animal feed and water availability is below normal given that the traditional water harvesting systems have not fully been replenished by the last rainfall season. Birkas were half filled with rain water and as a result the water reserved for the long dry season of Jilal were depleted and consumed during what other-wise would have been a rainy season months of November and December. As a result many areas have already started to experience critically early water shortages during the current first months of the dry Jilal season (from January to mid April).

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