Honoring 'Citizen Diplomats'

Honoring 'Citizen Diplomats'
A private group, the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, recognizes six Americans for their work for cultural understanding. Transcript of radio broadcast:
17 February 2008

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

The United States Center for Citizen Diplomacy is a nonprofit group started in Iowa in two thousand six. It says every American has the right, and even the responsibility, to help shape foreign relations "one handshake at a time."

Last week, in Washington, the center honored six Americans with its first National Awards for Citizen Diplomacy. A two-day conference also took place to urge more Americans to become citizen diplomats.


Nineteen-year-old Anjali Bhatia of New Jersey was the youngest winner. At sixteen, she started a group called Discover Worlds to build relations between the United States and Rwanda. The aim is to help orphans from the nineteen ninety-four genocide and young people affected by H.I.V. to stay in school.
Discover Worlds has fifty-seven locally run student groups across the United States. And there are hopes for partnerships in India soon. Anjali Bhatia says that by the end of this year, Discover Worlds hopes to be supporting about two hundred fifty Rwandan orphans. Its members also write letters to the children.

Another award winner, Tarik Daoud, is a business leader in Michigan who has led international delegations. He was recognized for his work for cross-cultural understanding through groups like the International Visitors Council of Detroit.

Khris Nedam is an elementary school teacher in Michigan who has also taught in France, Turkey and Afghanistan. She started a group with her sixth grade students called Kids4AfghanKids which works to rebuild schools in Afghanistan.

Greg Mortenson of Montana is co-founder of the Central Asia Institute and Pennies for Peace, and co-author of the book "Three Cups of Tea." The center says he has raised money to build sixty-four schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Jillian Poole of Virginia started the Fund for Arts and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe in nineteen ninety-one. Her work has helped arts and cultural groups deal with a free-market economy after years of depending on government support.

And Donna Tabor volunteers in Granada, Nicaragua, for Building New Hope, a community development group based in Pennsylvania. It supports a small cooperative of coffee farmers in northern Nicaragua. It also operates two schools and a lending library.

And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jill Moss.

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信守'公民外交官
一个私人集团，美国研究中心公民外交承认，六名美国人，对他们的工作，为文化上的了解。
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2008年2月17日

这是美国之音特别英语的发展报告。

美国中心为公民外交，是一个非营利性组织开始在爱荷华州，在2000六名。它说，每一个美国人都有权利，甚至有责任，以帮助塑造外交关系"一握手，一时间" 。

上周，在华盛顿，该中心荣获六名美国人，其第一次全国大奖，为公民外交。在为期两天的会议，也同样发生，促使更多的美国人成为公民外交官。

今年19岁的anjali巴蒂亚的新州是最年轻的得主。在十六，她启动了一批所谓发现的世界建立关系，美国和卢旺达。其目的是帮助孤儿，从1994年的种族灭绝和年轻人感染艾滋病毒留在学校。
发现世界上有57本地运行学生团体于美国各地。有希望的合作伙伴，在印度很快。 anjali巴蒂亚说，到去年底，今年以来，发现世界并希望可支持约250卢旺达孤儿。其成员还写信给孩子。

另一个奖得主， tarik达乌德，是一个商界领袖，在美国密歇根州人为首的国际代表团。他承认他的工作，为跨文化的理解，通过团体如国际旅客会底特律。

khris nedam是小学老师，在美国密歇根州人也告诉在法国，土耳其和阿富汗。她启动了一批与她六年级学生所谓kids4afghankids其中工程，以重建学校在阿富汗。

格雷戈mortenson的是蒙大拿州的共同创办了中亚研究所和便士，为和平，合作，本书的作者"三杯茶" 。该中心说，他已经筹得款项，建设64所学校，在巴基斯坦和阿富汗。

jillian普尔弗吉尼亚开始基金为艺术和文化在中欧和东欧地区在1991年。她的工作，使艺术和文化团体应对自由市场经济，经过多年的取决于政府的支持。

和唐娜塔伯尔志愿者在格拉纳达，尼加拉瓜，为建设新的希望，社会发展集团总部设在宾夕法尼亚州。它支持一个小型合作社咖啡农民在尼加拉瓜北部。它还设有两间学校和一个借阅图书馆。

这也是该美国之音特别英语发展报告撰写的吉尔苔。