| | |  Americas & Beyond | August 2008 
Bill Clinton, Frank Giustra & Carlos Slim Donate $10 Million to Peru's Needy
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| | Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, left, sits with Mexican billionaire businessman Carlos Slim at a press conference in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo) | | |
Peru will provide 50,000 free cataract surgeries over the next three years with a recent US$10 million donation from the Bill Clinton Foundation, Canadian philanthropist Frank Giustra, and the Carso Foundation of Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, Peru's foreign minister, Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde, announced on Thursday.
Minister García Belaunde said the money raised will benefit many poor people in need of medical eye care.
"I think it's very good news. This also complements the efforts being made by the Peruvian government ", García Belaunde stated as he reminded that the government has already provided some 20,000 cataract surgeries.
The donation was announced during a meeting between former President Clinton and the president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) Alberto Moreno in Mexico City.
When asked if this would reduce the number of Peruvians travelling to Venezuela to undergo cataract operations as part of the “Operación Milagro” program, García Belaunde said this program should not be used "politically" by some congressmen.
Clinton Honors 43 Schools for Anti-Obesity Efforts
Andrew DeMillo - Associated Press
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Little Rock, Ark. - Former President Clinton is honoring 43 schools for their anti-obesity efforts, including one that banished candy from its building and another that offers a student fitness club.
In a ceremony Wednesday at his presidential library in Little Rock, the former president planned to recognize the schools from a dozen states for their participation in the Healthy Schools Program, a joint initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association.
''Despite the rising food prices and constrained budgets impacting programs nationally, these schools are using innovative approaches to curb the country's alarming rates of childhood obesity,'' Clinton said. ''Schools around the country are stepping up and making progress.''
The schools being honored include Kenly Elementary School in Tampa, Fla., which banished candy from its building.
A fitness club is offered to students at the Pine Hill Middle School in New Jersey, and the staff does yoga twice a week.
The Healthy Schools Program started in 2006 and now includes nearly 3,000 schools and more than 1.66 million students. It provides in-person support to 1,364 schools and aims to boost that number to 8,000 by 2010.
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