Local international group receives program funding
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Chapel Hill-based IntraHealth International Inc. a five-year initiative to increase community health services in Rwanda.
With a funding ceiling of $34 million, the project is called the Twubakane Decentralization and Health Project and will focus on strengthening community-based services in family planning and reproductive health, child survival, malaria and nutrition.
The project also will focus on financial management, anti-corruption and local participatory governance.
IntraHealth International incorporated as a nonprofit organization in July 2003, after operating for 24 years as a program of the UNC School of Medicine.
Congress awards $600K for OWASA water reuse project
Congress approved a $644,605 grant to the Orange Water and Sewer Authority to help fund a water reuse project that the authority is creating along with the University.
The new system will provide nondrinking water to certain types of facilities such as chiller plants, where the University currently uses drinking water for cooling tower make-up water.
