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Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:59:20 -0800
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Subject: [WASAN] FW: Bush Africa budgets



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Organization: Bread for the World
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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:37:47 -0500
To: "Friends of Africa" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Bush Africa budgets


Dear colleagues and friends of Africa,

Over the next few days senior White House and State Department
officials are fine tuning the Bush Administrations foreign assistance
budget proposals for the next fiscal year. The "friends of Africa" in
the Congress and the NGO/PVO Africa advocacy community are
making an 11th hour appeal to the Bush Administration to protect
poverty-focused development assistance accounts for Africa from
being "Afghanisized".   We are joined in this effort by the lead
congressional sponsors of the "Africa: Hunger to Harvest
Resolution." The following letter was sent to President Bush today.

PS: If you have been waiting for the 11th hour before making your
telephone call or sending your letter to weigh-in on this process,
this is it.

PSS: Happy New Year!
Ray Almeida
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January 4, 2002

Th Honorable George W. Bush
The White House
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Bush,

     Both houses of Congress have now passed our "Hunger to
Harvest: Decade of Support for Sub-Saharan Africa Resolution" (H.
Con. Res. 102 and S. Con Res. 53). It asks you to develop five and
ten year strategies to reduce hunger and poverty in Africa, and
says that Congress should provide the necessary resources to
implement these strategies.

     You and your administration have already demonstrated
your concern about Africa.  The Hunger to Harvest Resolution
assures you of Congress's support for your work with African
and G-7 leaders on the New Partnership for Africa's
Development.  We look forward to hearing from your advisors
as they work on your strategies to reduce hunger and poverty
in Africa.

We also want to emphasize the relevance of the Hunger to
Harvest Resolution to the decision you will be making soon
about assistance for Africa in your budget for FY 2003.
Specifically, we urge you to increase funding for USAID's
Development Assistance and Child Survival and Health Programs
accounts and for other programs that channel effective,
poverty-focused development assistance to Africa.

                              Sincerely yours,

Senator Chuck Hagel                          Senator Patrick Leahy
Representative Jim Leach                    Representative Don Payne

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