2019 Money Explosion: A Free Financial Fair is being held at
Prince George’s Community College Campus on April 27th, 10am-3pm (Doors open at
9am) in Largo Student Center.
This is going to be an outstanding
event for all ages. There are workshops (English and Spanish) and
activities for everyone. We have workshops for seniors and adults including
topics on Retirement, Money Management, Wills and Trust. We have a
special track for high school and college students on entrepreneurship.
There are special programs for children 5-14. This is a great
opportunity, especially during Financial Literacy Month.
Tickets are
free and can be obtained online at www.pgcash.org. Lunch is included. Make this a family event.
VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED FOR THE EVENT- SIGN UP HERE
For this workshop in Washington, D.C. Spin Global, the D.C.
Homeland Security & Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA) with the Rockefeller
Foundation 100 Resilient Cities (http://www.100resilientcities.org/).Participating
cities in the U.S. are listed below.
This workshop
is funded bythe U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology
Directorate.
TAKE ADVANTAGE to have a similar workshop in your community.If your city is listed as participating 100
Resilient Cities program.Contact your
city Chief Resiliency Officer office, coordinate with your local emergency
management agency.
“Get it Done.”
For other rural
and urban areas, FARMERS, RANCHERScontact your local county, or city emergency
management office. Ask about having this
workshop in your community.
100 Resilient Cities Participants in NORTH AMERICA
Atlanta
Berkeley
Boston
Boulder
Chicago
Dallas
El Paso
Greater Miami and the Beaches
Honolulu
Los Angeles
Louisville
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Norfolk
Oakland
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Seattle
St. Louis
Tulsa
Washington, D.C.
Black Emergency Managers Association
International
1231 Good Hope Road S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20020
Office: 202-618-9097
bEMA International
"It is my belief that the best results in business come from a
creative process, from the ability to see things differently from everyone
else, and from finding answers to problems that are not bound by the phrase 'we have always done it this way.'
" Wayne Rogers
This month
we have new courses to help humanitarians develop their project
management skills, a paper on the role of the private sector in
humanitarian action, and a success story from the Philippines.
New on
Kaya: Project Management Essentials (D Pro
Series)
Looking to
improve your skills in project, program and financial management,
as well as monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
(MEAL)? The D Pro Series is a selection of
internationally recognised courses aimed at development, relief and
humanitarian professionals across the globe. Each course is
designed to improve humanitarian skills, especially at the local
level, while providing an easy to deploy training system to promote
career progression and contribute to sector-wide coherence.
Monitoring,
Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
Logframes are the foundation of a solid monitoring and
evaluation plan. In this course, you will learn what logframes are, why
they are a key element of strong program design, and how to develop
effective logframes.
FY19 MuralsDC Graffiti and Aerosol Mural Artists Request for Qualifications (RFQ)
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH), in partnership with the DC Department of Public Works (DPW), seeks graffiti and aerosol mural artists and artist teams to design, create and install aerosol murals as part of the MuralsDC program. Selected artists will be expected to address designated youth (ages 14-18) to help them understand the art of aerosol graffiti mural painting and provide youth with opportunities to assist (site preparation and mural outlining).
The MuralsDC program was established to replace illegal graffiti with artistic works, revitalize sites within communities in the District of Columbia, and to teach young people the art of aerosol painting. This initiative aims to positively engage the District's youth by teaching proper professional art techniques, providing supplies, and a legal means to practice and perform artistic skills in a way that promotes respect for public and private property and community awareness. There are currently more than eighty (80) MuralsDC projects across all eight wards of the District of Columbia.
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 4:00 pm ET
Humanitarian
conditions in Haiti have significantly worsened over the past year, the
U.N.’s Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ursula
Mueller warned in
an address earlier this month.
Hunger
levels are on the rise and more than half of Haiti’s population lives below
the poverty line. Access to basic services is very limited and more than a
quarter of Haitians lack clean water to drink. Some 2.6 million people are
expected to be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2019, and more than
300,000 children are unable to get an education.
Yet
the world has largely turned its back on the poorest country in the Western
hemisphere.
In
2018, the U.N.’s appeal for Haiti was funded at just 13 percent, making the
country the site of the world’s most underfunded humanitarian crisis.
“Sadly,
the severe levels of humanitarian need in the country rarely make headlines,”
Mueller lamented.
A Tale of Two Countries
On
top of the dire humanitarian situation, a political crisis is unfolding in
Haiti as well.
Angered
at the country’s ever-diminishing economic prospects, thousands have taken to
the streets in recent months calling for President Jovenel Moïse to
leave office.
But
unlike the ongoing political crisis to the South in Venezuela, the protests
in Haiti have also received little attention from Western leaders and the
major international press.
As
the first country to recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan
Guiado’s claim to the presidency, the United States has played a leading
role in efforts to oust President Nicolas Maduro from power.
U.S.
officials claim the 2018 elections that saw Maduro win another term were
“illegitimate,” and that Maduro’s incompetence and corruption are the root of
Venezuela’s sharp economic decline.
With
President Donald Trump’s administration committed to regime
change in Venezuela, major American cable news programs and print
publications have paid close attention to the humanitarian situation there.
Lost Faith
But
questions surrounding the legitimacy of Haiti’s Moïse, as well as
allegations of corruption and mismanagement, have also been persistent.
In
addition to allegations of fraud,
widespread disillusionment and systemic barriers to voting resulted in only
about 20 percent of Haitians casting ballots in the 2016 elections that
brought Moïse to power, Jake Johnston, an analyst at the Center
for Economic and Policy Research, told The Globe Post.
“For
me, the biggest indicator of election’s declining legitimacy is evidenced by
the increasingly declining turnout,” he said.
“Is
it really a surprise when a lot of people don’t actually respect the
government’s legitimacy or mandate when so few people actually participate?”
Marlene
Daut, a professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of
Virginia, agrees.
“On
the U.S. side, we tend to think that as long as there are elections, we can
say someone was ‘democratically elected,’” she told The
Globe Post.
“But
the feeling in Haiti is …they have lost faith in the electoral process.”
Funds, Squandered
Like
in Venezuela, perceptions of widespread corruption have also plagued the
Haitian government.
From
2005 until recently, Haiti received some $4 billion in petrol loans as part
of a program called Petrocaribe that was initiated by former Venezuelan
president Hugo Chavez.
The
loans were intended to allow Haiti and other Carribean countries to invest in
programs like schooling, healthcare and infrastructure, but Haiti’s public
sector ultimately saw little of the money.
Additionally, Moïse
has been at the center of a recent high-profile corruption scandal involving
American “mercenaries” who were reportedly hired
by him to transfer $80 million from the country’s national bank to a personal
account of his.
Geopolitics
So
what explains the vast disparity in responses to the political and
humanitarian crises in Venezuela and Haiti?
According
to Daut and Johnston, the answer boils down to geopolitics.
“I
don’t think that the U.S. government is interested in democracy or human
rights or that those are the motivating factors behind what they’re involved
in Venezuela,” Johnston said.
Venezuela’s
government has pursued a socilaist strand of independent development
following the election of Chavez in 1999, and has since aligned itself with
countries like Russia and China.
Haiti’s
government, on the other hand, has largely played by the rules set out by the
U.S. In some sense, efforts from American administrations throughout history
have ensured this.
U.S.
involvement in Haitian politics dates back to at least to the early 20th
Century when the island was occupied by American Marines between 1914 and
1934. Throughout much of the rest of the century, the U.S. supported the
brutal regimes of Francois Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude.
In
1990, when Haiti surprised Washington by electing the populist liberation
theologist Jean Bertrand Aristide, the George H.W. Bush administration
supported a military coup that quickly deposed him.
Since
then, a line of Haitian governments have generally aligned themselves with
the U.S., embracing Washington’s preferred brand of “neoliberal” policies and
opening the country to foreign investment.
“Haiti,
since colonial times has been built around an extraction of wealth and
distribution to other parts of the world,” Johnston said. “This has been the
economic model in Haiti for centuries that in many ways continues today.”
Continuing Cycle
While
those on the ground in Haiti are largely more concerned with the daily
economic struggles they face, Daut said there is a “strong feeling” among
Haitian Americans that recent presidents have been “installed” by the U.S.
As
protests continue throughout Haiti, Moïse’s relationship with Washington
appears to be stronger than ever.
After
Haiti voted with the U.S. in the Organization of American States to recognize
Guaido as interim president in Venezuela, Trump sat down with Moïse
at Mara Lago last week, and the U.S. is reportedly helping
to broker a debt relief agreement between Haiti and Qatar.
And
though there appears to be no immediate threat to Moïse’s power, Johnston
said he expects popular pressure on the government won’t stop any time soon.
“The
underlying issue is a political and economic system that excludes far too
much of the population,” he said.
“Until
those root problems are addressed, I see that cycle continuing into the
future.”
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