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Margaret Aguirre
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Combating Persistent Poverty in Africa, International Medical

Corps and Joint Aid Management Launch Strategic Partnership
July 27, 2009, Los Angeles, Calif. – In an effort to find sustainable solutions to persistent
poverty on the African continent, International Medical Corps and Joint Aid Management
have launched a strategic partnership that will enable the organizations to better meet
the immediate and long-term needs of vulnerable populations and improve living
conditions through sound investment and business development.

“We are thrilled to join forces with Joint Aid Management, which shares our commitment
to delivering humanitarian assistance quickly and efficiently, while strengthening the
long-term health care and economic capacity of local communities,” said Rabih Torbay,
Vice President of International Operations for International Medical Corps.

“International Medical Corps’ proven global track record of rebuilding devastated health
systems through training programs, coupled with our 25 years of meeting the nutrition
and education needs of children across Southern Africa, will help us multiply our
operational capacities many times over,” said Jim Lutzweiler, Vice President of Strategic
Development for Joint Aid Management. “As we expand across Africa, this collaboration
will help us identify other strategic partnerships and connect African communities to
global markets.”

International Medical Corps has a worldwide network of more than 3,500 doctors, nurses
and other health care professionals working in more than 20 countries throughout Africa,
Asia and the Middle East. Its programs focus on: primary health care, maternal-child
health care, mental health and psychosocial services, sexual and gender-based
violence, health education, water and sanitation, and HIV/AIDS and other infectious
diseases. Consistent with its mission of building capacity and transferring skills to local
populations, International Medical Corps ensures its efforts are sustainable by mobilizing
and training community members.

Joint Aid Management programs are focused on the belief that without education there
can be no development. Effective education is only attained through the quality of
schooling and through adequate nutrition, which allows children to focus, retain and
apply what is being learned. These are the building blocks of life. It is upon this
fundamental capacity that markets and growth are built.
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS is a global, humanitarian, non-profit organization
dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care trained and relief
and development programs leading to self- reliance. Established in 1984 by volunteer
doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical,
nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health
interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By
offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at
high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International
Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to
self-reliance. For more information visit: www.imcworldwide.org.

Joint Aid Management is a South African-founded, non-profit humanitarian relief and

development organization with 25 years of experience in sustainable development.
JAM’s programs focus on nutritional feeding, school feeding, assistance to orphans and
vulnerable children, the provision of water and sanitation, as well as skills development,
community training on agricultural development, income generation projects and
HIV/AIDS programming. JAM currently assists nearly 500,000 children through
nutritional feeding programs, health and social welfare programs. For more information
visit: www.jamint.com

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