Story by Ryan Labadens | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District | 06.07.2024
Delegates from the World Bank and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam visited with personnel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers June 3 and 4, 2024, as part of the Vietnamese Delegation Study Tour: Nature-Based Solutions. This visit was part of a larger study tour taking place June 3-10 and involves several USACE districts and divisions, including the New Orleans District, Jacksonville......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Lawn | 1st Theater Sustainment Command | 03.08.2014
In 2011, more than 2.4 million Afghan girls were attending school as reported by the Oxfam report. Under the Taliban, it is estimated that no more than 5,000 females attended schools. In contrast today, more than 49 percent of Afghanistan’s 32 million people are female, according to the World Bank. Statistically, women in Afghanistan are starting to take the lead, and yesterday, at New Kabul......
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Transatlantic Afghanistan District | 08.14.2013
The United Nations ranks Afghanistan among the nations with the lowest electricity production per capita. The World Bank identifies poor electricity access as the number one obstacle to investment here. In Kandahar, whether it’s powering a single light over the kitchen table so a student can do homework or powering plastic injection molding machines to produce commercial goods, promoting the......
