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Leadership

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Dr. James Jennings

Profile:

James E. Jennings, PhD, taught Middle Eastern Studies in several universities before becoming involved in humanitarian work in 1982. He founded Conscience International in 1992 and led USAID-funded health care programs in former Soviet Uzbekistan from 1992-95, for which he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Medical Administration. He has conducted humanitarian work in over twenty countries, and speaks frequently at universities, churches, civic clubs, and on television on human rights issues.

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Programs

Program: Summary of Longterm Humanitarian Assistance (GuideStar Exchange,

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Program Description:

Conscience International has organized or participated in projects which have distributed food, clothing, vehicles, shelter, medical assistance, medical training, public health training, technical consultations, and financial support to refugees, needy families, service agencies, and government agencies in over twenty-five countries, including some of the most difficult of access such as Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran. In August 1999 a Conscience International medical-surgical team arrived in Turkey's earthquake zone 72 hours after the quake. CI also sponsored, funded, and led a US Center for Disease Control--CDC post-disaster public health program in Turkey. CI medical training teams trained 500 Iraqi doctors and nurses in updated child survival techniques and maternal-child health solutions in Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul during 1996-98. CI contributes to an ongoing maternal-child nutrition program in Afghanistan; has provided large semi-trailer trucks for relief work in Cameroon; village reconstruction work in Honduras and Senegal, and orphan relief assistance in Haiti. In early 2003, Conscience International led a large "US Academics" delegation to Baghdad University for a dialogue conference on peaceful ways to address the international crisis over Iraq. Conscience International provided three medical and disaster relief teams to assist earthquake victims in Bam, Iran, during 2004. Conscience International provided non-food relief supplies to victims of forced migration in Darfur, Sudan during 2004. Conscience International led efforts to negotiate cessation of human rights abuses in Eritrea with government officials, sectarian leaders, and the ruling political party during 2004. Conscience International staffed medical clinics in Sigli and Banda Aceh, Indonesia following the great Asian tsunami during 2005. Conscience International helped staff a construction project, building houses for tsunami victims in Khow Lak, Thailand, during 2005. Conscience International sponsored "US Academics" peacemaking dialogue conferences with Tehran University, The Iranian National (Shahid Beheshti) University, and Damascus University in September, 2005. Conscience International provided a medical team, medicine, and medical supplies following the devastating earthquake in Kashmir, Pakistan during October, 2005.

Program Long-Term Success:

Provided medical aid team to victims of Bam earthquake in Bam and Kerman, Iran.

Program Short-Term Success:

Program Success Monitored by:

Program Success Examples:

Program: Haiti Replacement Homes (GuideStar Exchange,

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Program Description:

In response to the devastation of the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti, CI joined with other nonprofits to create Haiti Housing Network. The major goal is to provide homes for displaced families in the village of Grand Goave. Local civic and religious leaders select the families and the sequence of construction. Volunteer teams from the US provide the funding and some of the physical assistance in the building process. Approximately 30 Haitians have been employed and are being trained in the construction techniques that utilize rubble and wire "baskets" to achieve the restoration of demolished houses. The goal is to build 500 houses within three years using the rubble of former residences.

Program Long-Term Success:

Program Short-Term Success:

Employment of 20 Haitian workers being trained in rubble house construction methods and another six Haitians hired to learn how to provide lodging and meals for US volunteers. 140 houses were completed between May 2010 and January 2013. More than 800 volunteers have traveled to Grand Goave to assist in the construction.

Program Success Monitored by:

Haiti Housing Network and Conscience International staff.

Program Success Examples:

Strong partnership has been established with Grand Goave's mayor and other civic leaders; one school in a neighboring village has been built using rubble house technology; a concrete block structure (not rubble house) has been built in a nearby mountain village

Program: Bangladesh Community Development (GuideStar Exchange,

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Program Description:

Response to community leaders who identified the need for construction in a remote village

Program Long-Term Success:

Responding to the request of a US donor organization, CI provided oversight and financial services to complete the organization's project in Bangladesh. The donor organization selected and vetted a Bangladeshi volunteer who was deployed to live and work for four months in a remote Bangladeshi village, By cooperating with this US donor organization and local Bangladeshi village leaders, CI leveraged its experience in humanitarian efforts and its expertise in providing financial oversight and accountability in international dealings, resulting in the establishment in that village of a community center, medical clinic and one dwelling for a community religious leader. Construction was planned and implemented by local residents. Materials were supplied locally. Oversight of the project was provided by CI's US-based volunteer who had grown up in that Bangladeshi region.

Program Short-Term Success:

Program Success Monitored by:

CI and its US partner sent the volunteer back to the village twice to participate in a community celebration of the project and to evaluate the lessons learned by participating in this joint effort.

Program Success Examples:

Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of this project is that it resulted in the hiring of the volunteer who oversaw this project to serve now as CI's Program Director for South East Asia.