Clinton family at it again . . . typical of them
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From July 31 to August 8, President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are visiting Clinton Foundation projects in Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Africa. Follow their journey Facebook, on https://twitter.com/ClintonFdn and on http://instagram.com/clintonfoundation.
Bill Clinton @billclinton 31 Jul
Just touched down in Africa with @ChelseaClinton. Excited to travel for next 10 days to @ClintonFdn projects. #Africa2013
Chelsea Clinton @ChelseaClinton 31 Jul
Excited to be in Malawi with @billclinton! #Africa2013
CGI @ClintonGlobal 31 Jul
President @BillClinton & @ChelseaClinton travel throughout Africa over the next week: http://cgilink.org/afr2013 #Africa2013
Clinton Foundation
23 hours ago
Yesterday, President Bill Clinton visited Barclays Clinton Global Initiative commitment, Banking on Change, in Ukonga Ward, Tanzania where he met with community members who have benefited from the program. President Clinton also met with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, where they discussed the Clinton Foundation's work with the government of Tanzania, and increasing opportunity for local farmers through the Foundation's programs.
Today, President Clinton and Chelsea will travel to Zanzibar and learn how the Clinton Health Access Initiative is increasing awareness for malaria testing and visit with Zapha+. #Africa2013
Read more: http://wjcf.co/16lu9vc
Clinton Foundation shared Clinton Foundation's photo.
Yesterday
On August 3, 2013, President Clinton visits with Zainabu Rashid, the owner of a local beauty salon in Tanzania, and sees how she has been able to expand her business through Barclays CGI Banking on Change commitment. Banking on Change promotes savings-led community finance; community members work together in self-governing groups to save regularly and access small loans from a group fund.
Photo credit: Max Orenstein / Clinton Foundation
On August 3, 2013, President Clinton walks with community members who participate in Barclays CGI Commitment Banking on Change to see how they've benefitted through the program. The project is a microfinance partnership between Barclays and two charities, Plan UK and CARE International UK, that uses a community-led savings model to help people in underserved regions of the world manage their money, access loans, start or expand small businesses, and develop innovative banking products.
Chelsea Clinton shares her thoughts on our blog about her visit with Community Health Assistants yesterday in Zambia. http://wjcf.co/1b2fGXY #Africa2013
Clinton Foundation
August 1
President Clinton and Chelsea learn Climate Smart Agriculture farming techniques today while visiting our Anchor Farm Project in Malawi. #Africa2013
The Clinton Foundation runs the Anchor Farm Project in Malawi, which operates five commercial farms that partners with 21,000 neighboring smallholder farmers, providing them with access to quality inputs for maize and soy production as well as training and market access.
Clinton Foundation
July 31
President Bill Clinton reflects on Africa's progress since his first visit to the continent in 1998 and shares stories of how our work is improving lives today. #Africa2013
Read the story: http://wjcf.co/12GAUL9
How One Community Health Assistant Impacts A Village
Today while in Zambia, President Clinton and Chelsea met Benny Siinyisa, a Community Health Assistant, who is one of two people providing care for a rural community of 6,000 people. Clinton Health Access Initiative Human Resources for Health Program Manager Emily Heneghan Kasoma shares with us what it is like for Benny and other Community Health Assistants to provide care to some of the most rural communities in Zambia.
read more: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/clinton-foundation-blog.html/2013/08/02/how-one-community-health-assistant-impacts-a-village/
President Bill Clinton and Malawian President Joyce Banda greet people outside of Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi on August 1, 2013. President Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and President Banda toured the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) clinic at the hospital, which is providing HIV testing and treatment including Point-of-Care Testing and Early Infant Diagnosis and Treatment.
Following a tour of the Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton meet with expert clients on August 1, 2013. Expert clients are HIV-positive patients who use their experiences to teach others in their community who are recently-diagnosed with HIV how to care for themselves and for their children. Through the Clinton Health Access Initiative's Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission program, these expert clients' children are HIV-negative.
President Clinton and Chelsea visit the Manyemunyemu Clinic, a health post for Community Health Assistants, in Sialwiindi, Zambia on August 2, 2013. The Health Post is a key part of Zambia’s National Community Health Assistant Strategy, in which all of the country’s existing and planned new health posts will be staffed by Community Health Assistants. Over the next five years, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, with financial assistance from DFID, will support the training of approximately 3,000 Community Health Assistants, totaling about 60% of the total government target of 5,000.
Photo credit: Barbara Kinney / Clinton Foundation
Yesterday in Zambia, President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton visited a health clinic in the Sialwiindi village with Community Health Assistants, who are trained through the Clinton Health Access Initiative and bring health care to some of the most remote communities in Zambia. Later, President Clinton and the delegation visited the Starkey Hearing Foundation, a Clinton Global Initiative commitment maker that is providing hearing-impaired children with hearing aids. Today, President Clinton and Chelsea will be in Tanzania visiting a CGI commitment.
Read our Day 2 recap: http://wjcf.co/14qoW9z
President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton participate in helping the Community Health Assistant give a baby a check-up at the Manyemunyemu health post in Sialwiindi, Zambia on August 2, 2013. The Manyemunyemu health post is a newly built but unfinished structure, where health services have been provided for the past year. The population this health facility serves is over 3,000 people. The two-room health post provides maternal and child health services, administration of vaccines, treatment for non-severe malaria, respiratory infections, & diarrhea, as well as a range of other basic health services to the community.
Photo credit: Barbara Kinney / Clinton Foundation
President Bill Clinton visits Victoria Falls at sunset. #Africa2013
more photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.412935458827901.1073741830.389051904549590&type=1&l=dd2239fae2
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What is your connection to smallholder farmers, as a Clinton Development Initiative field officer?
As a Clinton Development Initiative field officer, I am involved in community mobilization, helping smallholder farmers form small farmers groups. These groups gain the knowledge and motivation to improve their agribusiness and their lives. They also host field days to share with other community members new farming techniques, information about soya, and encourage them to use any opportunity (from casual labor to field days) to improve the way they farm for their own families.
What are the benefits of the program of the commercial farm?
The employees benefit because they earn a living but also get training at the same time. The communities directly around the farm are farming themselves, so they are able to come to the farm to get inputs and learning new farming techniques and work during the harvest season,
What is it like to be a female facilitator in these communities?
I feel like a record-breaker and a pioneer because throughout the country’s history, field officers and extension agents have been men. I also love that I can help women in activities that create economic growth. There are two reactions from men when they see that I work in the soya fields: They either enjoy working with women, finding us to be more trustworthy and reliable, or they still believe that women should be subordinate or remain in home-based roles, not making decisions or leading. These men often still participate, but they sometimes don’t like to be seen as relying on women for education.
How long have you worked with soya?
I began working with soya because I saw how important the nutrition-rich food was for mothers and children. Many mothers were taking their children to nutrition rehabilitation centers, which took a lot of time and was expensive. Using soya they could create the same food at home, their children would be healthier, and they wouldn’t have to spend time traveling to the rehabilitation centers.
What is the impact of using soya?
Soya agriculture has become popular very quickly because farmers can maximize production of their land by rotating soya and maize. Farmers are now more motivated to go into soya production because they know they can be successful. When farmers used to get 2 bags per acre – each bag is 50 kg – and now farmers’ yields are more than 23 kg per acre. Lately, the declining tobacco market has had a big impact on the community. Farmers saw that tobacco prices were stagnant for a long time, while soya prices were steadily increasing.
There is also a big benefit because soya is also a short-term crop – it matures quickly, especially relative to tobacco, so women have more time to invest in other activities besides field work. The early harvest lets women use the income from crop sales to diversify nutrition and benefit from price rise by engaging in crop trading! Because they have money early, they buy other crops like beans, consume some, and sell the rest when prices rise. This is increasing their profits even more.
What impacts are you seeing for women from soya?
We often work with mothers learn to feed their children with soya. Mothers with malnourished children learn to prepare the exact product (likuni phala) in their own homes and mothers with healthier children learn to prevent malnutrition by incorporating soya into a balanced diet. These are important lessons because early childhood nutrition plays a large part in their emotional and intellectual development and by keeping their families healthy mothers avoid lost time or money taking family members to the clinic, even worse, spending weeks in the hospital with a seriously malnourished child.
With the extra income made from soya’s high yield, women are investing in their homes and are able to send their children to school.
more: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/clinton-foundation-blog.html/2013/08/02/the-benefits-of-soya/
beautiful women. She's going to leave her mark for sure. Bill and Hillary must be very proud. She's a lovely young woman, inside and out.
Bill looks great.
Good on them. 
Whatever can be said about the Clintons, I think that most would agree that they have been great parents. Bill has a look of pure love and pride as he watches Chelsea speak.
Can't wait to see them in the Whitehouse again.
And gt a grip on reality. Sarcasm is met with sarcasm. 
It's such a ludicrous hatred too.
spent on the rural/impoverished South & Appalachia.
Edit to add: attention also on the native American's who live on reservations like Pine Ridge and others.
We have so much poverty in this country. For shame on us as a nation!
... for the best 8 years of my life.
Write Books...or die.
I found this exhibition totally disgusting by Clinton. And, what about Clinton's involvement in Haiti. How did that turn out? Now he's following Obama and Bushies to Africa. It's starting to look like a Competition between Clinton and Obama & Bushies over Photo Ops there!
This is the FACE of the Democratic Party for the Future? It's the Clinton Redux for 2016 against Obama/Bush Family Gathering Photo Ops in AFRICA last Month! OMG 
I thought this display of promoting Chelsea as the "Heir" to Clinton Legacy was truly OTT!
WHAT photo Ops???????? Do you even have a remote idea what the Clinton Foundation does and what it means to the lives of thousands in Africa and in other parts of the world? IMO, one of the foundation's greatest achievements has been to negotiate with various drug companies to reduce the cost of ARVs. This has meant that thousands of people who could not have afforded the drugs, and otherwise would have died without treatment, are still alive. The average cost in Africa of the generic version of these drugs was $600 per year per person. The foundation managed to lower the cost to $60 per year.
"The second large-scale strategy involves third-party consultation and price negotiation with generic ARV suppliers, a practice introduced by the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) in 2003. In practice, CHAI attempts to make ARVs more affordable by negotiating price ceilings that reflect suppliers’ costs plus reasonable and sustainable profit margins. Moreover, CHAI furthers this strategy by providing direct technical assistance to some suppliers to help lower their production costs. The resulting ceiling prices are made available to all members of the CHAI procurement consortium. Countries that wish to become part of the consortium sign a memorandum of understanding with CHAI and manufacturers are required to offer ARVs to these countries at prices equal to or less than CHAI-negotiated ceiling prices."
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/7/08-058925/en/
Here's another article on the subject.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/world/09aidsdrugs.html?_r=0
I find your post so offensive and dismissive of the labor of not just the Clintons, but of the hundreds who work and volunteer at the foundation, that I better stop before I write something really nasty.
Some seem to be blinded by hate and will write any nasty thing that pops into their minds, no matter how nonsensical and removed from the truth it may be. This place can be depressing, far too often it seems like a RW site. Read the comments on any Clinton article, some of them could have been written by Freepers.
Bill loves to go on these semi annual trips and to have Chelsea with him must have made the trip extra special. Chelsea has turned into such a lovely woman. She's as smart as her parents and has inherited their best qualities. They are both so proud of her.