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DESCRIPTION:Practicing Social and Economic Development in the Middle East a
 nd North Africa: Introducing the new affiliation between SU and the Near E
 ast Foundation The Near East Foundation(NEF)\, an international non govern
 mental organization founded in 1915\, works with local organizations to im
 prove the lives of communities in the Middle East and Africa experiencing 
 the effects of chronic poverty\, conflict\, migration and/or climate chang
 e. They include marginalized social groups (young people in Morocco's peri
 -urban slums\, residents of "poverty pockets" in rural Jordan)\, villages 
 isolated by their environment (Berbers in Morocco's Atlas Mountains\, Mali
 ans facing an encroaching desert and Egyptian farmers relocated from the N
 ile Delta)\, and settlements of refugees (Iraqis in Jordan\, Palestinians 
 in the West Bank and Darfurians in central Sudan). NEF helps its local par
 tners participate more fully in the development of their countries by help
 ing to amplify their collective voice through community organizing and ins
 titution building\, to build knowledge to participate more fully in civic 
 life through education and literacy programs\, and to create economic oppo
 rtunity through enterprise development\, micro-credit\, and improved agric
 ultural and natural resource management. NEF has recently relocated to the
  Syracuse University campus through a strategic affiliation to bring the t
 alent and creative energy of the university community to bear on the probl
 ems of these vulnerable communities.
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SUMMARY:MES presents: Charlie Benjamin
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Practicing Social and Economic Development in 
 the Middle East and North Africa: Introducing the new affiliation between 
 SU and the Near East Foundation The Near East Foundation(NEF)\, an interna
 tional non governmental organization founded in 1915\, works with local or
 ganizations to improve the lives of communities in the Middle East and Afr
 ica experiencing the effects of chronic poverty\, conflict\, migration and
 /or climate change. They include marginalized social groups (young people 
 in Morocco's peri-urban slums\, residents of "poverty pockets" in rural Jo
 rdan)\, villages isolated by their environment (Berbers in Morocco's Atlas
  Mountains\, Malians facing an encroaching desert and Egyptian farmers rel
 ocated from the Nile Delta)\, and settlements of refugees (Iraqis in Jorda
 n\, Palestinians in the West Bank and Darfurians in central Sudan). NEF he
 lps its local partners participate more fully in the development of their 
 countries by helping to amplify their collective voice through community o
 rganizing and institution building\, to build knowledge to participate mor
 e fully in civic life through education and literacy programs\, and to cre
 ate economic opportunity through enterprise development\, micro-credit\, a
 nd improved agricultural and natural resource management. NEF has recently
  relocated to the Syracuse University campus through a strategic affiliati
 on to bring the talent and creative energy of the university community to 
 bear on the problems of these vulnerable communities.
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