THE FACES OF LEADERSHIP ANNUAL REPORT // 2014 At the heart of PCI is helping families and communities lift themselves out of poverty and create opportunities to build better lives for future generations. A RISE TO LEADERSHIP AMBASSADOR GADDI VASQUEZ From the migrant farms of Texas and California to In 2002, he was nominated by President George W. Bush, the halls of power in Washington and at the United and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, to serve Nations, Ambassador Gaddi Vasquez has lived the as the Director of the Peace Corps. During his tenure American dream and never forgotten the importance overseeing operations in 78 countries, the Peace Corps of giving back to others. Now he brings this quality of experienced a period of growth not seen in three decades leadership to his role as PCI’s Chairman of the Board. and greatly expanded its programs in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Like the millions of individuals PCI impacts around the world every year, Vasquez had a childhood deeply In 2006, President Bush nominated him to serve as sowed in poverty, economic struggle, and hunger. He the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies in learned early on from his parents that “to whom much Rome, Italy, acting as America’s leading voice in the fight is given, much is required,” and this philosophy shaped against poverty, hunger, and disease. His success as a his life in the public, corporate, and volunteer arenas. leader in combating hunger and malnutrition prompted the Director of the World Food Program to name Vasquez “My mother was determined to break the cycle of a “Champion Against World Hunger.” poverty by insisting that we advance our education If your actions inspire and achieve a better quality of life. My dad was the At the heart of PCI is helping families and communities others to dream more, inspiration and she was the motivator. They taught lift themselves out of poverty and create opportunities learn more, do more, and me the importance of hard work and living my life to build better lives for generations to come. become more, you are a with purpose.” Ambassador Vasquez has experienced this firsthand in his own life, and his service and leadership is just one Vasquez was the first of his family to earn a college example of the devotion and passion PCI employees, LEADER. degree, he became a police officer, and in 1988, volunteers, and donors bring to our mission to end global –JOHN QUINCY ADAMS he was elected to the Orange County Board of poverty every day. Supervisors in California—the first Latino to serve in the county’s history. PCI ANNUAL REPORT 2014 CONTENTS BY THE NUMBERS AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP Measuring our work through Working with communities to find the millions of lives we touch real and lasting solutions to their every day greatest challenges PROFILE: JUAN CARLOS SOLIS Our programs in 16 countries across Asia, Africa, and the Americas provide 4 6 CELEBRATING THE FACES OF the tools, resources, and training needed CUTTING EDGE COLLABORATIVE by those living in the most desperate LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP conditions imaginable to build better Using technology and innovation Bringing together the right partners LEADERSHIP lives for themselves and their families. to improve the lives of the poorest to tackle global poverty at its roots of the poor PROFILE: CHUNCHUN Dear Friends of PCI, PROFILE: MAMEDO NUR-HUSSEN In 2014, PCI helped transform the lives of over 8 million This year PCI will celebrate the leaders making men, women, and children around the world, encouraging a difference — feeding children in Central 8 10 greater opportunity and ensuring healthier, more America, saving newborn lives in India, fighting LIFESAVING TRANSFORMATIONAL productive lives. Ebola in Liberia, and helping pastoralists in LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP Ethiopia find greener pastures for their herds. Staring down the greatest Changing the world, one Our programs in 16 countries across Asia, Africa, and the global health crisis in a woman and one community generation . Ebola at a time Americas provide the tools, resources, and training needed I hope you will enjoy reading their stories and seeing by those living in the most desperate conditions imaginable the impact your support is having around the world. PROFILE: PROFILE: to build better lives for themselves and their families. JOLENE MULLINS ENELESI Thank you for your support and everything you do This kind of impact takes leadership, and our report will to make our work possible every day. 12 14 introduce you to some of the remarkable individuals we GLOBAL THANK YOU serve, as well as the people who make this all possible in IMPACT TO OUR DONORS the work they do every day. How PCI is changing the lives Remarkable partners of children and families and helping PCI change the The real strength of PCI is working with communities to strengthening communities lives of children and find solutions to the challenges they face. Without their GEORGE GUIMARAES in 16 countries families around the leadership, real and lasting change will not happen. We PRESIDENT & CEO world every day design all of our programs with their input and support with the end goal being change that communities can own 16 20 for generations to come. REMEMBERING FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 18 EVELYN BOARD OF DIRECTORS 27 Finding hope for the 57,000 women who die of cervical cancer in Africa every year ABOUT OUR COVER Women are the key to ending global poverty, and PCI’s Women Empowered (WE) group in Geietoma, Ethiopia is one of over 30,000 groups around the world encouraging women to be entrepreneurs 26 and leaders in their communities. Photograph by Rudi Dundas. Number of organizations benefiting from PCI’s local 17,408 capacity strengthening efforts Number of Number of households people benefiting across 4 countries improving their health and from PCI’s Number of metric tons of food nutrition via Care Groups distributed in four countries 49,366 program services Increase in target infants 8,124,099 aged 0-5 months exclusively 3,525 breastfeeding in Liberia 96.5% (2011-2014) WHAT WE ACCOMPLISHED IN Increase in funding awarded to PCI for programs 365 since last year DAYS BY THE NUMBERS 57.7% Number of Integrated Counseling and Testing Centers in India 16,000 strengthened by PCI Number24 of USAID priority countries that PCI’s Every Preemie program 22,278,200 will be influencing Number of improved HIV tests carried out as a result of PCI’s laboratory strengthening work in India Number of PCI program platforms that have incorporated Women Empowered (WE) Number of local community-based Number of people reached organizations currently by PCI through awareness 26 partnering with PCI to and educational campaigns implement WE 457,372 Number of 15 WE participants Number of active projects through 610 413,391 November 2014 16Number of countries Number of WE groups where PCI operates through November 2014 53 Number of PCI staff worldwide 30,833 Images: Ethiopia, Chris Bessenecker; Mexico and Zambia, Jeffrey Lamont Brown; Guatemala, Gesler Castillo; India, Janine Schooley Creating a Local Solution JUAN CARLOS SOLIS to a Global Problem PCI’s Food for Education Program LEADERSHIP PROFILE HUEHUETENANGO, GUATEMALA Too many children in the world go to bed hungry without at least one healthy meal a day. But in Guatemala, PCI is changing that by partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to feed 38,400 children while they’re at school, keeping them in the classroom and improving their ability to learn. Food for Education programs are among the most significant of PCI’s global work Juan Carlos Solis has worked with PCI’s Food for Education program for two and are being implemented in several years, overseeing school gardens in Huehuetenango. Juan Carlos grew up countries, including Guatemala, in this region and sees his work as a way to give back. Tanzania, and Nicaragua. Working to coordinate food shipments to Guatemala from the U.S., Juan Carlos thought there must be an easier, faster, more efficient way to deliver food and take advantage of local agricultural projects as well as ensure school feeding sustainability. LEADERSHIPAUTHENTIC Changing the lives of the more than 2 billion people who live in extreme poverty around the world is only possible when communities own the solutions to their problems. That’s why PCI creates and designs programs with and for communities that continue long after we are gone. Ensuring people have the tools and resources they need to build a better life for themselves and their families brings lasting, authentic change, and PCI is focusing on how to measure success, learn Working to achieve sustainable from our own experience, and share best practices throughout the global development community. He came up with the idea of matching local farmers with schools to provide impact across the world, PCI the vegetables needed for school breakfasts and lunches. This is a win-win focuses on creating real and This year PCI released the first Resource Guide for Enhanced Potential for Sustainable Impact, situation as local farmers have an instant market for their crops, schools lasting transformative change a tool developed in consultation with partners around the world as a way to ensure sustainability can keep serving hot meals to children as the program phases out, and the and ensuring local communities is addressed throughout a project’s life cycle. children have the nutritional benefit of fresh local produce. are empowered and enabled to own the solutions to the PCI is one of only a handful of organizations studying the impact of its programming long after Still in the pilot stage, the School Feeding Sustainability Program has so problems they face in the funding has ended.