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Brasília – The U.S. Embassy launched the ninth edition of the Youth Ambassadors Program on April 26 in São Paulo. The launch marked the beginning of the enrollment phase of the program that will ultimately take 35 Brazilian public school students and two public school teachers to the United States for three weeks in 2011 with all expenses paid. Plublic school students have until August 5th to enroll. Click here for more information. More...

U.S. Youth Ambassadors to spend three weeks in Brazil as a part of new exchange program

Brasília, July 28th 2010 – After the success of the Youth Ambassadors Program, a cultural exchange project run by the U.S. Embassy taking Brazilian public school students to the U.S., the Department of State has now launched a U.S. version of the program. “We want American youth to have the same opportunity to see and learn about Brazil that Brazilian youth have had through the Youth Ambassador’s program. The United States and Brazil have much in common and we can learn much from each other, and the best way to do that is through people-to-people connections,” said the US Embassy Country Public Affairs Officer, Adele Ruppe. More...

Feed the Future: A U.S. Commitment Against Poverty and Hunger

Washington — The U.S. government, backed by U.S. scientists and corporations, is investing money and energy into reducing global hunger and poverty on a huge scale by 2015. A State Department official overseeing the Feed the Future program, Patricia Haslach, told a congressional subcommittee July 20 that President Obama’s pledge of $3.5 billion at the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, for agricultural development and food security through 2012 has attracted an additional $18.5 billion pledged by other donors. More...

In Haiti, U.S. Works to Improve Lives, Livelihoods

Washington — For the United States, the recovery and reconstruction of Haiti is a long-term commitment in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake that destroyed sizeable sections of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding countryside, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says. “Over the last six months, the Haitian people have again shown their resilience and strength,” said Secretary Clinton. More...