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| 2005-2006 Press Release Archive | ||
For the most recent press releases,
visit the press releases page. IRD US Announces $250,000 Grant for the Gulf Coast Community Service Center Gulfport, MS — November 21, 2006 — IRD US’s Gulf Coast Community Service Center (GCCSC) has been awarded $250,000 from the state of Mississippi’s Department of Human Services, IRD US announced today. The grant is part of $86 million allocated by Congress to rebuild the Gulf Coast, recently released to the state of Mississippi. IRD Selects Two Serbian Americans as First Participants in Mentoring Program Washington, DC — November 15, 2006 — International Relief and Development (IRD) has named the first two recipients to serve in its newly formed Serbian Mentoring Program, it was announced today. IRD Expands Avian Flu Activities in Ukraine Washington, DC — November 1, 2006 — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a one-year grant of $200,000 to International Relief and Development (IRD) for avian flu activities. Under the new grant, IRD will continue activities in Crimea, begun with a small grant in February, for another year and extend similar activities to four more regions affected by avian influenza. Washington, DC — October 31, 2006 — International Relief and Development (IRD) has been awarded a $999,885 contract to implement a United States Department of Agriculture program aimed at improving educational opportunities and nutrition of primary school children. The award is a sub-contract from the Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI). USAID RENEWS SHIPPING SUBSIDY TO IRD FOR RELIEF COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION Washington, DC — October 20, 2006 — International Relief and Development (IRD) has received confirmation that its Ocean Freight Reimbursement (OFR) participation has been renewed by USAID. OFR is a two-year program operated by USAID and is used to help defray costs for overseas transportation originating in the USA for voluntary humanitarian relief shipments for commodities distributed to people in need around the world. The subsidy is for $114,000 over the two-year cycle of the program. IRD first received permission for OFR in FY2005-06. The total value for the goods shipped by IRD, via OFR over the past two years, was over $5.7 million dollars. IRD Receives Grant to Decrease Child Malnutrition in Cambodia Washington, DC — October 18, 2006 — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded International Relief and Development (IRD) a four-year, $1,250,000 grant to reduce childhood death and disease by providing good nutrition and clean water to families in the Teuk Phos region of Cambodia. IRD Gulf Coast Community Service Center Receives Outstanding Service Award Washington, DC — October 17, 2006 — The Gulf Coast Community Service Center, headquartered in Gulfport, MS, received an Award for Outstanding Service and Partnership last week for their long term recovery activities in Harrison County. IRD Receives Grant to Aid Villages in South Lebanon Washington, DC — October 10, 2006 — The British humanitarian aid agency, Department For International Development (DFID), has awarded IRD a grant in the amount of $843,847 to provide assistance to vulnerable conflict-affected households in southern Lebanon adversely affected by the conflict between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hezbollah. This four-month long project will focus on ten rural villages in the Tyre District of southern Lebanon. Two Grants Totaling at $1.6 Million Awarded to IRD for Projects in Chad Washington, DC — September 15, 2006 — International Relief and Development (IRD) has received two grants – from the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (BPRM) of the Department of State – to improve livelihoods of the local Chadian population and Sudanese refugees. USAID Renews Grant to IRD for Food Supplements for Kosovo IDPs Washington, DC — August 31, 2006 — The United States Agency for International
Development ‘s Office of Food for Peace has renewed its grant
to International Relief and Development (IRD) to distribute 75 metric
tons of dehydrated vegetable mix or soup mix to internally displaced
people (IDPs) living in Kosovo, IRD President and CEO Dr. Arthur
B. Keys, Jr. announced today. U.S. Ambassador Visits IRD Humanitarian Assistance Projects in Eastern Ukraine Makeyevka, Ukraine — August 8, 2006
— Today, U.S. Ambassador to
Ukraine William B. Taylor cut the red ribbon for the official ceremony
to provide medical supplies and hospital beds to the Makeyevka Municipal
Hospital #7. U.S. Ambassador Tours IRD’s Better Food for Better Lives Program Sites in Cambodia Pnomh Penh — July 20, 2006 — Today, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Joseph
A. Mussomeli visited schools, bakeries, factories and flour mills
throughout Cambodia participating in IRD’s Better Food
for Better Lives program, now in its second successful year. UNICEF Awards $300,000 Grant to IRD to Repair Earthquake Damage Washington, DC — July 17, 2006 — UNICEF has awarded a $307,998 grant
to International Relief and Development (IRD) to provide emergency
water and sanitation facilities and conduct hygiene education in
the Klaten and Bantul areas of Yogyakarta province, IRD announced
today. U.S. Ambassador Visits IRD Humanitarian Assistance Projects in Ukraine Bakhchisaray, Ukraine
— July 16, 2006 — On July
14th and 15th, William B. Taylor, the U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine,
visited several IRD projects in Crimea funded by the U.S. Department
of State (DOS), including hospital and orphanage renovations as
well as water supply improvement projects. UNICEF Awards IRD $12 Million Grant for Repairs to Tsunami Damage in Indonesia Washington, DC — July 6, 2006 — The United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF) has awarded a $12 million extension of a grant to
International Relief and Development (IRD) for long-term restoration
of water infrastructure in Aceh Province damaged by the tsunami
and earthquake, IRD announced today. IRD US Meets with Senator Lott to Discuss Rebuilding Gulf Coast Washington, DC — June 30, 2006 — IRD US President and CEO Arthur B.
Keys, Jr. and IRD US’s Gulf Coast Community Service Center
staff met with Senator Trent Lott (R., MS) yesterday and asked for
his assistance in securing funding for Center programs. IRD Receives Grant to Provide Medical Equipment to Tsunami-Damaged Aceh Hospital Washington, DC — June 29, 2006 — International Relief and Development, Inc.
(IRD) received a grant for $199,000 from Direct Relief International
(DRI) to procure and manage the delivery of medical, administrative
and obstetric equipment to the Mueraxa District Hospital in Aceh
Province. IRD Provides Anti-Tetanus Medicine to Victims in Quake-Affected Areas of Indonesia Washington, DC —
June 16, 2006 — International
Relief and Development (IRD) has begun a major program to provide
vaccinations against tetanus, which has already killed 18 people
in the province of Bantul, IRD announced today. IRD Gulf Coast Facility Recognized by Mississippi Governor Jackson, MS — June
9, 2006 — International Relief
and Development was recognized today by Governor Haley Barbour and
the Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service for its work in
the Gulfport area following Hurricane Katrina. IRD Founder to Receive Honorary Doctorate Washington, DC — May 3, 2006 — Dr.
Arthur B. Keys, Jr., founder and president of International Relief
and Development, Inc., will receive an honorary doctorate of humane
letters at the Bethany College graduation ceremony on Saturday,
May 6. Washington, DC —
May 1, 2006 — LDS Charities today awarded International
Relief and Development, Inc. (IRD) a one-year, $1 million contract
to build the infrastructure needed for long-term water supply in
Banda Aceh, Indonesia, IRD President and CEO Dr. Arthur B. Keys,
Jr. announced. International Business Executive Joins IRD Afghanistan Team Washington, DC —
January 31, 2006 — James K. Weeks, former general
manager of EHC Global in Toronto, Canada, today joined IRD as Director
of Operations in Afghanistan. Washington, DC —
November 15, 2005 — International Relief and Development
recently attended the 15th Annual Trade Fair hosted by the Serbian
Unity Congress (SUC) in Las Vegas, NV from November 1–13,
2005 and chose the occasion to announce a unique Mentoring Program
that aims to tap the skills of the American-Serbian business community
and bring the Serbia Diaspora closer to development initiatives
in Serbia. The Mentoring Program was developed by IRD in partnership
with SUC and will initially focus on placing volunteers on assignments
in Western Serbia, where IRD is currently implementing a USAID-funded
“Community Revitalization through Democratic Action (CRDA)”
program. IRD Hires New Program Manager for Mississippi Community Development Initiatives Gulfport, MS — November
1, 2005 — IRD recently hired Lori Quinlan as the new
Program Manager for IRD’s community development and relief
programs in the hurricane ravaged town of Gulfport, MS. Quinlan,
a Gulfport native, will be responsible for opening and managing
IRD’s Neighborhood Services Center as well as other economic
and community development initiatives. IRD Awarded Contract for Construction Trades Training Center, Afghanistan Washington, DC —
October 30, 2005 — International
Relief and Development, Inc. (IRD) was recently awarded a contract
by the Combined/Joint Task Force of the US Army to implement a new
vocational training program in Afghanistan. IRD Delivers Truckloads of Supplies to Vietnamese Community in East Biloxi, MS East Biloxi, MS —
September 16, 2005 — International Relief and Development, Inc. (IRD), in conjunction
with Heart to Heart International, delivered and distributed two
shipments of relief supplies to a Vietnamese community in East Biloxi,
MS. IRD is working to re-establish livelihoods, reconstruct community
infrastructure and distribute relief and medical supplies to those
most impacted by the hurricane. IRD’s assessment team helped
distribute two fifty foot trailers worth of supplies to the Vietnamese
Catholic Church and the Van Duc Temple. IRD Delivers Essential Commodities to Mississippi Gulfport, MS — September
11, 2005 — The International Relief and Development
(IRD) Assessment Team led by Drs. Arthur Keys and Adam Koons, has
spent a busy weekend on the ground helping to unload trailers of
relief supplies, and meeting with local charitable organizations
and national non-governmental agencies in the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS
area. The team has started to survey the areas most heavily damaged
along that section of the Gulf Coast IRD Discusses Lessons Learned from Tsunami Relief on Channel 9 News Washington, DC —
September 10, 2005 — Beth Rogers-Witte of International
Relief and Development (IRD) was interviewed by Channel 9 WUSA news
on Saturday, September 10 to discuss lessons learned from tsunami
relief in Aceh, Indonesia to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Ms. Rogers-Witte was based in the heavily devastated city of Banda
Aceh for four months to assist with IRD’s relief and reconstruction
programs in Aceh and recently returned to the U.S. IRD Working With Mississippi Partners to Assist Hurricane Katrina Victims Washington, DC —
September 9, 2005 — IRD has mobilized a seasoned Relief
Assessment Team to survey areas along the Gulf Coast destroyed by
Hurricane Katrina and meet with local organizations, including Back
Bay Mission, to support on-going relief efforts in Mississippi.
The assessment team consists of experienced professionals, including
technical experts as well as those with family connections to the
Gulf region. The team will lay the ground work for IRD’s long-term
development, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts. IRD Coordinates Delivery of Two Truckloads of Water, Hygiene Kits to Slidell, LA Washington, DC —
September 8, 2005 — International Relief and Development,
Inc. (IRD) arranged for $100,000 worth of drinking water, diapers,
sanitation wipes, cleaning supplies, batteries, flashlights and
various hygiene products to be delivered and distributed to Hurricane
Katrina victims living in Slidell, Louisiana. IRD has partnered
with Heart to Heart International and the Church of Latter-Day Saints
(LDS) to deliver and distribute these emergency hygiene supplies
to victims displaced by this disaster. IRD to Deploy Relief Assessment Team to Areas Destroyed by Hurricane Washington, DC —
September 6, 2005 — International Relief and Development,
Inc. (IRD) is currently mobilizing a Relief Assessment Team to survey
areas along the Gulf Coast destroyed by the hurricane in order to
lay the ground work for IRD’s long-term development, rehabilitation
and reconstruction efforts. IRD to Provide Long-Term Assistance to Hurricane Katrina Victims Washington, DC —
September 5, 2005 — International Relief and Development,
Inc. (IRD) is fully committed to providing long-term support to
victims of the hurricane by working to re-establish livelihoods,
reconstructing community infrastructure and distributing relief
and medical supplies to the most vulnerable groups displaced by
the hurricane. IRD to Assist Hurricane Katrina Victims Washington, DC —
September 2, 2005 — International
Relief and Development, Inc. (IRD) has committed to distribute medical
supplies, health and hygiene kits and other relief provisions to
the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast. As one of the
first responders to the South Asian tsunamis that hit at the end
of last year, IRD is applying their expertise to meet the greatest
needs in the Gulf Coast area and relieve the suffering of hurricane
victims. IRD is Now Collecting Cash Contributions for Victims of Hurricane Katrina Washington, DC —
September 1, 2005 — International
Relief and Development, Inc. (IRD) is currently accepting cash donations
for the victims of hurricane Katrina that struck cities along the
Gulf Coast on August 28. Donations will be used to support immediate
shelter activities as well as the distribution of medical supplies,
health kits and relief provisions to victims along the Gulf Coast. IRD Awarded Additional Grant for Medical Distribution Program in Ukraine Washington, DC —
August 11, 2005 — IRD recently received additional
funding from the Department of State to supplement its current Emergency
Medical Commodity Distribution (EMCD) Program in Ukraine. The supplementary
funding will expand the current delivery of essential medical and
non-medical commodities in the region of Crimea, and will now encompass
humanitarian activities in Eastern Ukraine, particularly in the
Donetsk and Lugansk regions. IRD Launches the Women First Program in Mozambique Mozambique — August
5, 2005 — IRD has launched the “Mulheres
Primeiro” (“Women First”) program in Mozambique.
The program aims to train educators who can in turn train their
peers to conduct activities in both HIV/AIDS awareness and in micro-finance.
Women First brings together a private sector partner — Unilever
— with a religious organization — United Methodist Church
of Mozambique. The program is financed by the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA). IRD Receives Grant to Rehabilitate Three Water Systems in Georgia Senaki, Kvareli and Chalaubani,
Republic of Georgia — August 4, 2005 — International
Relief and Development, Inc. (IRD) recently received a grant from
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints (LDS) to rehabilitate
three water systems in order to improve access to potable water
in rural communities in Georgia. IRD Launches Regional Economic Development Program in Serbia Western Serbia
— August 3, 2005 — International Relief and Development,
Inc. (IRD) recently launched a new program in Western Serbia to
strengthen the capacity of municipal structures, businesses and
citizens in order to support local and regional economic development
initiatives. IRD Opens Offices in Chad for Launch of New Food Aid & Agricultural Programs Eastern Chad — August
2, 2005 — International Relief and Development, Inc.
(IRD) opened offices in Chad this month in order to implement two
new programs: Emergency Food for Work and Agricultural Assistance
Initiative for Affected Villages in Eastern Chad, and the Blanket
Supplementary Feeding Program. IRD Assists Entrepreneur to Launch Successful Small Business in Montenegro Ulcinj, Montenegro —
August 1, 2005 — International Relief and Development,
Inc. (IRD) recently provided Mrs. Ðulija Škretovic, a small
business owner in Montenegro, with two new sewing machines and a
steam-iron worth $2,272. This grant was facilitated through the
Community Revitalization through Democratic Action (CRDA) Program
that is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development
and implemented by IRD in Southern Montenegro. IRD Meets Serbian Diaspora, USAID to Develop New Economic Development Programs Washington, DC —
July 25, 2005 — International Relief and Development,
Inc. (IRD) recently met with select members of the Serbian Diaspora,
the Serbian Unity Congress (SUC) and the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) Mission Director Keith Simmons to develop new
economic development programs in Serbia. During the meeting, IRD,
USAID, and the SUC made presentations to identify projects and possible
mechanisms that will serve to increase Diaspora support of development
initiatives in Serbia and Montenegro. IRD Attends Ceremony at White House as President Bush Welcomes Indian Prime Minister Washington, DC —
July 18, 2005 —
Dr. Arthur B. Keys, Jr., President of International Relief
and Development, Inc. (IRD) attended the welcoming ceremony for
Prime Minister Singh of India at the White House on July 18. The
ceremony, hosted by President Bush and the First Lady, was held
on the South Lawn of the White House in celebration of the official
state visit of Prime Minister Singh and his wife, Mrs. Gursharan
Kaur. President Bush Praises Tsunami Relief Efforts During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Washington, DC — May 25, 2005
— Dr. Arthur Keys, President
of International Relief and Development (IRD), attended the White
House celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month hosted
by President Bush. President Bush presented awards to volunteers
who have assisted in the relief efforts in Southeast Asia following
the deadly Tsunamis. President Yudhoyono from Indonesia, Secretary
of Labor Elaine Chao and Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta
also attended the celebration. IRD and Yale Divinity School Host Reception to Honor US Congresswoman Lois Capps Washington, DC —
May 25, 2005 — International
Relief and Development, Inc. (IRD) hosted a reception with Yale
Divinity School (YDS) on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 featuring Congresswoman
Lois Capps and Professor Margaret Farley. IRD Honors Congressional Members at Reception for Tsunami Relief Efforts Washington, DC — May 2, 2005 —
International Relief and Development, Inc.
(IRD) hosted a reception on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 to honor Congressional
members who have assisted in the relief and reconstruction efforts
in Southeast Asia following the deadly Tsunamis in December. IRD Responds to Earthquakes off Coast of Indonesia Washington, DC —
March 31, 2005 — International Relief and Development,
Inc. is actively responding to the strong earthquake that occurred
off the west coast of Sumatra Island in Indonesia on March 28 at
11:08 p.m. local time. The earthquake, registering at a magnitude
of 8.7, has been followed by approximately 36 aftershocks ranging
from 4.7 to 6.1 in magnitude. Initial reports indicate that the
islands of Nias, Simeulue and Banyak were the areas most affected
by the earthquake with over 500 confirmed deaths and thousands of
persons displaced.
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