Washington, D.C., July 11, 2008 – An innovative program to increase economic growth and cooperation along the Haitian-Dominican border received a major boost through funding from the U.S. government and the Organization of American States (OAS), the Pan American Development Foundation announced today.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (July 2, 2008) – An emergency shipment of food has arrived to Haiti, which will feed more than 36,000 people for a month, the Pan American Development Foundation announced. Six cargo containers with 270,000 lbs. of fortified rice and soy protein meal packages were donated by the Minnesota-based Feed My Starving Children, which responded to PADF’s urgent appeal for relief after Haitians rioted in early April because of soaring food and fuel prices.

Washington, D.C. (June 27, 2008)—The Hospital San Francisco de Asís in the remote and poverty-stricken city of Quibdó, state of Choco in Colombia, cannot offer most of its patients a bed, forcing them to use stretchers instead. That unhealthy situation is changing as the result of a donation of electric beds and mattresses, coordinated by the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF).

Washington, DC (June 17, 2008)—Six US-based Salvadoran immigrant associations received grants from the Manos Unidas por El Salvador program—a unique corporate social responsibility initiative established by Banco Agrícola and the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF)—that will provide new educational opportunities and improve learning resources in six schools in El Salvador.