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This Channel
is for National Guard State Partnership
Programs.
As projects between counties
develop,
The
Humanitarian Network
- Project Support Partners is available to
help implement each phase of a project and provide partnerships with service clubs, NGO's
faith-based organizations, suppliers, and
both
short-term and long-term funding program
providers.
As NGBIA
projects develop they will be posted on this
channel of The Network.
The first
comprehensive program to be posted is the
Pennsylvania-Lithuania
Program which is a multi-facet, plan
to address a number of needs in the country
of Lithuania covering Medical-Dental,
Educational, Physically Challenged,
Orphanages, Youth Development, and
Agricultural issues which will lead to an
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Pennsylvania-Lithuania Partnership Program
Welcome to the NGBIA-State Partnership Program
Program, which is international in scope and
addresses the needs of developing countries in their
march toward democracy. The Program has been
designed to foster economic support between
individual states and developing nations, which will
insure goodwill and lasting relationships.
Click here
to see of a few of the initial projects.
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 Click here to
review US Embassy and Lithuanian Business
leaders' projects
needing supporters.
Other key projects anticipated in the
overall comprehensive plan and background
information of currently scheduled projects
and ideas are shown in different sections of
this website.
 We need you to register to
learn more and to
participate.
A team member will then connect
with you.
 Agricultural Projects
Orphanage Projects
Medical-Dental Projects
Youth Development Projects
Physically Challenged
Projects
Educational Projects
 The State Partnership
Program (SPP)
is a possible model for harnessing the power
of the American people as a force for
positive peacemaking. The SPP was developed
based on NATO’s joint contact team program,
which was used to help jumpstart the
Partnership for Peace program. In 1993 the
National Guard decided to partner U.S.
states who were interested in engaging
overseas with foreign partners who were
willing to work with the U.S. The SPP has
grown to over 62 partnerships as of February
2010, and are targeted to grow at the rate
of two countries per year.
Partner nations are
generally smaller, relatively weak states in
need of assistance in building their
capacity to stabilize their own security.
For example, the first SPP partners were
Maryland - Estonia and
Pennsylvania - Lithuania
and more recently, New Mexico and Costa
Rica. The National Guard as citizen-soldiers
pride themselves on their ability to foster
positive, long-term relationships at the
civilian-military and civilian-civilian
level. After all, National Guard soldiers
and airmen also hold ordinary civilian jobs
as police officers, businessmen, teachers,
etc.
One of the most
remarkable results of the SPP are stories
told of positive spin-off effects from
seemingly mundane military-military contacts
that result in connections made between
American and partner country churches,
schools, universities, and relationships
fostered between governors and partner
ministries, and even new business contacts.
The National Guard possesses the potential
to serve an important grassroots peacemaking
role regionally as well as between foreign
countries and the United States.
The funding limitations
of civilian-military cooperative projects,
wherein funds cannot be co-mingled, severely
strangles project needs. The Network can
bring together factions who can “take-over”
from the military efforts once a program
reaches a specific point, which allows
projects continue long after military
budgets run out. This “hand-off” idea has
been used effectively in Dominican Republic
and in the South Pacific, where military
engineer built schools, infirmaries, and
homes for the aged, and the local service
clubs in country, working with funds raised
by “partner clubs” abroad, took over and
completed supplying the facilities with
equipment, supplies, teachers, and necessary
infrastructure to complete the mission. An
additional benefit to such a program
structure is that “ownership and
accountability of the program”, became the
key to the long-term survival of the
project.
 ODC Mission:
The U.S. Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC)
Lithuania
is a cohesive team of military and
civilian professionals planning and
executing all Security Assistance (SA),
Defense Cooperation in Armaments (DCA), and
other military-to-military programs in
Lithuania. ODC Lithuania is responsible to
the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania and the
Commander, U.S. European Command for
administering these
programs.
ODC is the gateway from which to build the
State Partnership Program in a cooperative
effort with the Pennsylvania National Guard.
Budgetary constraints
have and will
continue to be the biggest obstacle for
implementation of meaningful
civilian-military projects, however, working
in conjunction with The Humanitarian Network
and its strategic partnerships with NGO’s,
goods and services suppliers, faith-based
groups, and service organizations like
Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis and others, such
comprehensive programs as herewith listed
become much more realistic. The Network has
the ability to bring together the key
elements needed for successful projects
which always have commonalities:
The Bilateral Affairs
Officer within the ODC manages these
programs
and coordinates with
the Pennsylvania National Guard to execute
the State Partnership Program.
Within the
framework of the Ambassador's Mission
Performance Plan and EUCOM's Theater
Security Strategy, ODC Lithuania supports
Lithuania's military transformation to an
expeditionary style force fully prepared to
deploy in support of NATO and US operations
around the world. ODC Focus then becomes
primarily:
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To
support Lithuania's military
transformation to an
expeditionary style force
fully prepared to deploy in
support of NATO and US
operations around the world
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To
assist Lithuania with the
Professional Development of
their Officer and NCO corps
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To
provide military procurement
advice and assistance
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To
promote the U.S. defense
industry and U.S. defense
business and investments in
Lithuania
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To
facilitate cooperation in
the fields of military
training, education and
technology.
Some of the key
military-to-military programs that the
ODC
office administers are the Joint Contact
Team Program,
State Partnership Program
and defense environmental cooperation.
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The time is right for
a comprehensive program
Lithuania is designated as a new country
eligible to participate in the US temporary
worker visa program.
On
January 22, 2010, Secretary of Homeland
Security Janet Napolitano designated
Lithuania as one of 11 new countries whose
citizens are eligible to participate in the
H2-A and H2-B non-immigrant visa programs.
These programs allow U.S. employers to bring
foreign nationals to the U.S. to fill
temporary or seasonal jobs for which
American workers are not available.
Before applying for a temporary worker visa
at a U.S. Embassy, applicants must obtain an
approved petition from the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS). The petition must
be submitted by the applicant's prospective
employer to DHS no earlier than 6 months
before the proposed employment start date.
For more information about the H2-A or H2-B
visas please visit our website at
http://vilnius.usembassy.gov/non-immigrant_visas.html
under "Information for Temporary Workers"
link.
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LOCATION AND GEOGRAPHY
Lithuania
is a former republic of the USSR. It is
bound by the Baltic Sea to the west, Latvia
to the north, Poland and the Kaliningrad
Oblast of Russia to the southwest as well as
Belarus to the south and east. The country
is 25, 174 square miles, of which
approximately 1/3 is forested.
Topographically, the country is part of
the coastal rim of the Russian Plain
with moraine
 and
other glacial deposits. The country has two
hilly regions, (1.) the Samogitian Hills to
the west and (2.) the lake and bog filled
hill country of the east. Both of these
areas are separated by the Lithuanian
Lowlands. The principal river is the Nemunas
or Niemen River with its two main
tributaries. Major Cities (pop. est.);
Vilnius 584,400, Kaunas 423,900, Klaipeda
204,600 (1994). Land Use; forested 31%,
pastures 7%, agricultural-cultivated 46%,
other 16% (1993). Pennsylvania is
about 46,000 square miles with about 60%
being forested. Average year-round
temperature is similar, and both have access
to coastal waters. They are ideally suited
to be Partners under the State Partnership
Program, as similarities, particularly in
the potential for agriculture productivity
can be built upon.
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CLIMATE
Pittsburgh falls in the transition between
humid continental
and
humid subtropical
climates. It features four distinct seasons,
with precipitation somewhat evenly spread
throughout the year. Summers are hot and
humid (with occasional
heat waves),
while winters are cold and snowy. Fall and
spring are mild to warm.
The warmest
month of the year in Pittsburgh, as in most
of the northern hemisphere, is July. The
average high temperature is 83 °F (28.3 °C),
with overnight low temperatures averaging
62 °F (16.7 °C). July is often humid,
resulting in a considerable
heat index.
The coldest month of the year is January,
when the average high temperature is 35 °F
(1.7 °C). Overnight low temperatures average
20 °F (−6.7 °C). The highest temperature
ever recorded in Pittsburgh was 103 °F
(39.4 °C), on July 16, 1988, and the coldest
temperature ever recorded was −22 °F
(−30.0 °C), on January 19, 1994.[36]
Philadelphia, being
on the Atlantic Coast is similar in climate
to Klaipeda which is on the Baltic Sea. Its
year-round temperature is much milder than
Pittsburgh which is located on the other
side of the state. Winters are milder with
average temperatures in the low thirties,
while summers can be hot and humid, seldom
do the temperature reach above 90.
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humanitarian Network
started as a continuation of several
long term development projects. As
we collected information from many
Project Managers, NGOs, Nonprofits,
Foundations, and others engaged in
International Humanitarian Projects
and Programs, it evolved into a
place for projects to connect with
resources. A place for all to
connect, collaborate, and partner
for the greater good of those that
all seek to help. It has become
The
HUMANITARIAN Network.
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