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Dr. Leonard Uisetiawan, provincial projects advisor for the ADRA office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, who presented the study, discussed the perception and hand washing practices among rural Cambodians. According to Dr. Uisetiawan, the project concluded that less than 26 percent of rural Cambodians use good hand washing techniques regardless of access to clean water and hygiene knowledge. In addition, less than 6 percent of child caretakers properly washed their hands after changing a child’s soiled diaper or after defecation.

Through this emergency intervention, ADRA will provide wool blankets to 2,600 vulnerable children to shield them from the cold, a necessity during the current rainy season. In addition, 4,000 women will receive batik fabrics called "pagne" made up of three pieces of two yards (1.8 m) of fabric each. According to Romain Kenfack, country director for the ADRA DRC East office in Goma, these multi-functional fabrics can be worn, serve as cover when temperatures dip, and used as a sling…

The project, named "JENGA," which means "to build" in Swahili, began in June of 2008, and will benefit an estimated 45,000 vulnerable people in 100 rural communities in Fizi and Uvira territories in eastern DRC. Through JENGA, ADRA will reach 10 percent of the residents of the targeted territories, two regions with high numbers of returnees. The full name of the project, "Jenga nguvu za jamaa katika maeneo ya Fizi na Uvira, wilaya ya Sud Kivu", is translated as "Building…

In collaboration with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), ADRA Myanmar is increasing food distribution activities by nearly doubling the number of targeted communities receiving food aid, from 106 villages to 197. ADRA expects that this increase in aid will benefit an additional 48,000 people, according to Douglas Havens, country director for ADRA Myanmar. This expansion comes just months after ADRA became the largest WPF partner in Myanmar, distributing in June as much as 40 percent of WFP commodities…

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