Lithuania Delivers Thousands of Hats to Afghan Children
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Lithuanian-led Chaghcharan PRT Holds Development Seminar
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Exemplary work!
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Regional Command-West
CHAGCHARAN, Afghanistan (December 8, 2009) -- International Security Assistance Force troops serving in the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team Chagcharan distributed thousands of handmade winter hats Tuesday to the schoolchildren of Chaghcharan, the capital city of Ghowr province. This was the final phase of the “Warm Hats for Afghan Children” project launched by ISAF soldiers in Regional Command - West.
“The project exceeded the expectations,” said First Lt. Inga Pranaitiene, a civil and military cooperation officer at PRT Chagcharan who coordinated the project. Posters promoting the program in Lithuania pleaded for donors to produce one hat per person to give to Afghan children.
“We were intending to collect 500 hats, but the people delivered ten times more,” Pranaitiene said. “In one month, people delivered more than 5,000 warm hats, and they are still bringing them even after the project is closed,” she said, adding that more than 1,500 additional hats are on their way to Afghanistan from Lithuania.
Lithuanian-led Chaghcharan PRT Holds Development Seminar
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ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan
2010-01-RS-137
Feature News Release
By 1st Lt. Skomantas Povilionis
KABUL, Afghanistan (Jan. 28) - Representatives from 26 international and non-governmental organizations who work in Ghowr province, and diplomats from Japan, the U.S. and Lithuania took part in a development seminar in the city of Chaghcharan recently.
The Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team organized the seminar to increase cooperation among donors and local institutions to make reconstruction efforts more effective.
"This seminar serves as an opportunity for NGOs participating in development to find a more efficient way," said Lithuanian Ambassador Dainius Junevicius. "The flow of money from the international community increases year by year. It's extremely important to use these funds in the most effective way."
The group worked on identifying obstacles that reduce the effectiveness of development projects and evaluating ongoing projects and project implementation issues.
"Participants of this seminar are the important link between the international community and the local people," said PRT Commander Col. Gediminas Macijauskas.
"It's important to spread understanding about ongoing development and the possibilities and responsibilities of Afghans in the processes of rebuilding their own country."
The Lithuanian-led PRT began operating in 2005 and is composed of officers and civilians from Denmark, Japan, Croatia, Georgia, Romania, Ukraine and the United States.
Exemplary work!