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Dear Friend,
Chelsea and I recently returned
from a trip to Africa where we saw the results of the work that you
support through the Clinton Foundation. We make this trip almost every
year to see the work our Foundation, the Clinton Health Access
Initiative (CHAI), and CGI partners do, and the people we're able to
help.
As you all know, it’s the political season in America, so
the purpose and impact of the efforts your support makes possible has
largely been ignored in recent coverage of the Foundation. But we are
and always have been a non-partisan, inclusive foundation with lots of
support from and involvement by people across the political spectrum and
governments from right to left, all committed to our creative
solutions-centered work. That's why I am writing to you and our hundreds
of thousands of other supporters in the U.S. and around the world to
let you know how grateful I am for your support, and for our staff and
our partners, and how determined I am that our work will continue.
Next week, Donna Shalala will join the Foundation as President and
CEO. She will inherit a senior leadership who have years of experience
in the NGO and private sectors, and a talented, dedicated, diverse
staff, all deeply committed to keep doing the kind of inspiring work we
saw in Africa. We will also continue to look for ways to improve our
reporting systems so that we can operate as accurately, efficiently, and
transparently as possible – a goal to which we have been committed
since day one.
I started the Clinton Foundation when I left the
White House to continue working on issues I had long cared about, where
I believed I could still make an impact. I grew up believing that if I
worked hard enough I could build a rewarding life, and entered public
service to create more opportunities for others and to empower them to
seize those opportunities – or as we say, to have better life stories.
That same purpose has driven our work at the Clinton Foundation –
whether we're helping smallholder farmers in Africa increase their
yields or supporting women entrepreneurs in Latin America as they build
better lives for their families.
From the very beginning, the Clinton Foundation
has intentionally taken a different approach to addressing global
challenges. Except to spur recovery in the aftermath of disasters like
the South Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and, over a longer period,
in Haiti, we don't primarily make grants to other organizations.
Instead, we implement and organize projects ourselves by bringing
partners together, including governments, businesses, labor unions,
philanthropies, other NGOs, and the people we're trying to help, and
join them on the ground to solve problems faster, better, and at lower
cost. We strive for innovative approaches to problem solving that are
sustainable and yield strong results. With each of our initiatives, we
try both to change lives today and offer a model for meaningful and
replicable future action. The best way to do that usually starts with
forming inclusive networks of all stakeholders. We incorporate data and
metrics into the Foundation's work and encourage others to help scale-up
or replicate our successful projects wherever they can touch more
lives.
My work with the Clinton Foundation over the past 14
years has been one of the most rewarding endeavors of my life, as every
day I see how, with your support, our programs change lives. While in
Africa, I met many of the people we're helping build better futures,
provide for their families, and strengthen their communities. Their
lives tell the real stories of the Clinton Foundation, and they are
worth hearing.
In Tanzania, I visited Wazia Chawala. She is a
farmer and a single mother raising seven children. She is also one of
85,000 people in Tanzania, Malawi, and Rwanda participating in our
Clinton Development Initiative's Anchor Farm program. The program
operates commercial farms and partners with local smallholder farmers to
provide them with access to high-quality, low-cost seed and fertilizer,
training in improved agricultural techniques, and transportation to
market. Participants have more than doubled their yields on average,
increased their incomes by even greater margins, and dramatically
improved their quality of life. When I met Wazia, she told me how her
increased productivity has helped her improve her home and keep her
seven children in school. She is forging her own path out of poverty
with a system that is life-changing, sustainable, and replicable. What
is working for 85,000 farmers could work for millions.
In
Tanzania, I also visited a dispensary run by CHAI that is helping to
make life-saving vaccines more affordable and readily available to
people in rural areas, where 70 percent of the country's people live. In
addition to negotiating price reductions for the pneumonia and
rotavirus vaccines, CHAI is using innovative solar-powered refrigerators
to preserve the vaccines – which are only effective when stored in cool
temperatures – in the remote areas of the country that lack
electricity. I met with several mothers who have had their children
vaccinated through the program, which is saving 11,000 lives annually,
including one woman who walked twelve miles to get her baby vaccinated
for the first time. Stories like that are why I started this work, and
why I am more committed than ever to continuing it.
As I often say, there can be a big difference
between the headlines and the trend lines. We mostly hear about the
headlines – but the trend lines can tell us more about what is happening
in most people's lives. When I look at what the Foundation has
accomplished over the last 14 years, I believe we are helping to move
the trend lines in the right direction. 9.9 million people in more than
70 countries now have access to low-cost, life-saving HIV/AIDS medicines
through the Clinton Health Access Initiative; 16 million kids in more
than 28,000 schools in the U.S. now have healthier food and more
physical activity options; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative
have made 3,200 commitments that have already improved 430 million lives
in more than 180 countries.
That's the real story of the
Clinton Foundation – people coming together across traditional divides
to help others live up to their full potential. We are grateful that you
have been a part of it.
We'll keep trying to reach our goals
faster, better, and in the most cost-effective way. We'll continue to
strive for accuracy and transparency and, most important, keep working
on the mission and measuring our progress every step of the way. That
commitment to impact, innovation, and efficiency is what you expect from
us, and what we want to deliver for years to come.
Thank you for your support of the Clinton Foundation. Together, we can build a future we can all be proud to share.
I encourage you to visit clintonfoundation.org/our-work to learn more about the way the Clinton Foundation works and our life-changing programs around the world.
Sincerely,
Bill Clinton
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