2007.05.14: May 14, 2007: Headlines: Directors - Tschetter: Figures: Directors: COS - Botswana: COS - India: Republic of Botswana: Tschetter meets with Peace Corps volunteers in Nata, Makaleng, Francistown, Tonota and Mahalapye during trip to Botswana
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2007.05.14: May 14, 2007: Headlines: Directors - Tschetter: Figures: Directors: COS - Botswana: COS - India: Republic of Botswana: Tschetter meets with Peace Corps volunteers in Nata, Makaleng, Francistown, Tonota and Mahalapye during trip to Botswana
Tschetter meets with Peace Corps volunteers in Nata, Makaleng, Francistown, Tonota and Mahalapye during trip to Botswana
Mr Tschetter commended Botswana for its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, adding that the Peace Corps intended to remain engaged in the struggle against the virus. While in Botswana, Mr Tschetter met with Peace Corps volunteers in Nata, Makaleng, Francistown, Tonota and Mahalapye. His delegation included Mr Henry McKoy, Peace Corps Regional Director for the Africa Region, Ms Peggy McClure, Botswana Country Director, and Cameron Garrett, Associate Peace Corps Director, among others. Ron Tschetter is the seventeenth Director of the Peace Corps. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India in the 1960's.
Tschetter meets with Peace Corps volunteers in Nata, Makaleng, Francistown, Tonota and Mahalapye during trip to Botswana
Botswana appreciates US Peace Corps
14 May, 2007
Caption: Mothers waiting to weigh their babies in the Nata Clinic in Botswana. Peace Corps Director Ron Tschetter visited volunteers in Nata during his trip to Botswana. Photo: jonrawlinson Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
GABORONE- President Festus Mogae has thanked the visiting director of Peace Corps Mr Ron Tschetter for the sterling contribution being made by Peace Corps volunteers in Botswana.
Speaking during Mr Tschetters courtesy call, he said the Peace Corps were contributing a lot, especially in assisting Batswana in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.
Mr Mogae further informed the Peace Corps chief aboutr Botswanas modest success and continued challenges in fighting the virus.
He told him that positive achievements included, the roll out of ARVs to over 82 500 individuals, or close to 90 per cent of those in immediate need, relative success of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission programme, which had reduced HIV transmission to infants from affected mothers from about 40 per cent to less then 6 per cent.
Mr Mogae said a reduction in HIV prevalence among youth, as well as women attending ante natal clinics were also positive achievement.
He thanked the delegation for the additional contribution being made by various individuals and institutions from both the public and private sectors in United States.
He also noted that Botswana was one of the major beneficiaries of the President Bushs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
For his part Mr Tschetter commended Botswana for its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, adding that the Peace Corps intended to remain engaged in the struggle against the virus.
While in Botswana, Mr Tschetter met with Peace Corps volunteers in Nata, Makaleng, Francistown, Tonota and Mahalapye.
His delegation included Mr Henry McKoy, Peace Corps Regional Director for the Africa Region, Ms Peggy McClure, Botswana Country Director, and Cameron Garrett, Associate Peace Corps Director, among others.
Peace Corps has enjoyed two distinct lives in Botswana over a period spanning nearly 35 years.
The first Peace Corps Volunteers arrived in Botswana in 1966, only four months after independence.
In a span of 31 years, over 2000 Volunteers came to teach at schools around Botswana, to assist district councils establish legal systems and procedures, to improve water supplies in remote areas through the construction of wells, to assist with development planning at both the national and local levels, and to preserve the nations natural reserves and parks.
Among their ranks were engineers, lawyers, biologists, game wardens, small business advisors, radiologists and, of course, teachers. In 1997, Botswana was graduated, and Peace Corps left the country. BOPA
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