USAID celebrates 50 year anniversary

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For 50 years, USAID has been helping communities and countries build a better future for themselves and their families, working to help others while also serving America’s own national interests. USAID is honoring 50 years of progress and celebrating an agency that is reinventing itself to become more innovative, more entrepreneurial, and more results-driven, so that it can continue to bring hope, opportunity, security, and prosperity to millions of people around the world.

At the website -- VIDEO statement -- former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright honors USAID’s vital mission and commends USAID employees for their work empowering women, promoting education and fighting poverty around the globe. Secretary Albright also reinforces USAID’s critical role helping America achieve friends across the world and calls attention to the link between development and freedom.
“Created in 1961, USAID embodies America’s commitment to helping people from across the globe to live in dignity and hope.” – Secretary Albright.

http://50.usaid.gov/former-secretary-of-state-madeleine-albright-recognizes-usaid%e2%80%99s-positive-impact/