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Helping Thousands to Cope with the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS

February 14, 2014

For Immediate Release:

IESC’s Innovative BizAIDS Africa Program Reaches 10th Anniversary

Helping Thousands of SMEs in Sub Saharan Africa to Cope with the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS

WASHINGTON DC, February 14, 2014: International Executive Service Corps (IESC) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its successful BizAIDS program, set up in southern Africa in 2004 to help small businesses, their owners, families and local…

Toasting Our Presidents

January 6, 2014

My assignment was to provide assistance to business associations in order to help them develop advocacy skills as part of IESC’s Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Support Project in the Republic of Georgia. I met with the officials in Tbilisi and then went to the regions outside the capital. Before my arrival, Mr. Saba Sarishvili, SME Development Manager, sent guidance to help me prepare. One piece of advice was not clear at…

Could I Play the Duduk With You’

January 6, 2014

Consultant Rick Hibberd (on the right)
at The London Tourism Show

My IESC project in Armenia included branding their first tourism campaign with logo and slogan “Armenia: Timeless ‘Undiscovered” and creating exhibits for International Tourism Bourse 2000, Berlin’s mammoth trade show, later London’s World Travel Mart. I also designed a tourist information center opposite Yerevan’s lively vernissage* for…

Barev Dzez!

January 6, 2014

Volunteer Donna Howard

The Armenians are extremely hospitable. Their phrase for hospitality is “to love our guest.” At every NGO I visited, I was offered tea or coffee, and I usually accept tea. Tea is a ritual in Armenia, which, I realize now, includes a nice cloth or scarf placed on the table, the loveliest cups or glasses one has, and a plate of cookies or candy at the most humble of locations. No…

Russian Hospitality

January 3, 2014

Russian teatime

Shortly after Perestroika, in 1996, IESC sent us to Vladimir, Russia. From American television we had the idea that Russians are rather cold and distant people who seldom smiled. However, during our time in Russia we discovered their warmth and hospitality. The project was a huge success and we made life-long friends.

At that time, business was mostly done on the barter system. The…

A Second Generation Volunteer

January 2, 2014

I am afraid I do not have a specific anecdote or photo/video clip about my experience with IESC but perhaps I have a unique story that might be of interest.

IESC Volunteer Albert E. Koehl (died in 1970)

In 1964, my father Albert E. Koehl read a story by James Reston in the New York Times about a proposed new international volunteer organization for experienced business people. He doggedly tried to contact…

July 14, 2011

Participant Surveys

U.S. Participant – Public Sector
U.S. Participant – Private Sector
Egypt-based Participant – Public Sector
Egypt-based Participant – Private Sector

Forum
The Egypt: Forward forum took place on June 27-28, 2011, in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, with the goal of encouraging enhanced trade and sustainable economic development in…

June 1, 2010

L’Ambassade des Etats Unis à Rabat, en coopération avec la Confédération Générale des Entreprises du Maroc (CGEM), la Chambre de Commerce Américaine (AmCham) et l’Association des Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises du Maroc (AFEM) a l’honneur d’annoncer un Atelier et des Consultations d’Entreprises sur le Renforcement des Capacités Commerciales sous le thème «Optimisation du Commerce dans le cadre de l’Accord de Libre-échange…

May 20, 2010

Rabat, Morocco –– The United States Embassy in Rabat and the US-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) are pleased to announce an upcoming Trade Capacity Building Workshop entitled “Maximizing Trade under the U.S. – Morocco Free Trade Agreement (FTA)”, which will be held in Casablanca on June 14-16, 2010 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers Casablanca for companies interested in expanding their business under the FTA. The workshop will…

May 20, 2010

Rabat, Morocco –– The United States Embassy in Rabat and the US-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) are pleased to announce an upcoming Trade Capacity Building Workshop entitled “Maximizing Trade under the U.S. – Morocco Free Trade Agreement (FTA)”, which will be held in Casablanca on June 14-16 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers Casablanca for companies interested in expanding their business under the FTA. The workshop will…