President Clinton Visits Clinton Foundation Projects in Latin America
by Clinton Foundation
On May 14 and 15, President Bill Clinton traveled to Peru and Colombia with philanthropists Frank Giustra and Marco A. Slim to visit Clinton Foundation projects and announce new efforts that will positively impact disadvantaged communities in Latin America.
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Africa
Africa 2012: Day 1 Recap
Yesterday in Johannesburg, President Clinton visited Ikusasalethu, a City Year service site, where the City Year team was repainting old shipping containers that are used for afterschool tutoring and meals programs. View a gallery of the visit. President Clinton helped launched City Year South Africa in 2005 with Nelson Mandela, and in 2006, through the Clinton Global Initiative...
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The Spirit of Ubuntu
There is a Zulu proverb called Ubuntu that says: “I am a person through other people. My humanity is tied to yours.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu explained it this way: “One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu — the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being...
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AGOA and the Emerging African Market
When President Clinton signed the African Growth and Opportunity Act into law in 2000, he ushered in a new era of relations between the U.S. and the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. As a result of AGOA, the U.S. engagement on the continent is no longer solely predicated on a donor-recipient relationship...
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Welcome Message from President Clinton
When I left office in 2001 to begin my work as a private citizen, America was enjoying its longest period of peace and prosperity in more than a generation, and our world was on the verge of the most interdependent age in history. I knew I wanted to leverage the benefits of this global interdependence to address the biggest...
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Soy Cooperative Brings Profits to Community
Kopama is a soybean production cooperative based in the Rwinkwavu sector, in Rwanda’s Eastern Province, that has benefited from improved inputs and training. Last season, Kopama, which has a total of 31 members (18 men and 13 women), produced soybean seeds on a plot of nine hectares, from which they harvested nearly 20,000 kilograms of soy. This dramatically...
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