2007 Clinton Global Initiative Commitments Announced
PSI Now Collaborating on Four Projects

NEW YORK, NY, Sept. 28, 2007 — The Clinton Global Initiative has announced its 2007 member commitments, three of which PSI is involved with: Scaling up the Children's Safe Drinking Water Program, Scaling Proven Microfranchise Model for Development and the Condé Nast Traveler Five & Alive Fund. Another CGI commitment, the "Male Circumcision Pilot Project in Zambia," was begun by PSI in 2006.

• With PSI as one of its partners, Procter & Gamble committed to provide safe drinking water and hygiene education to one million children in Africa and to provide two billion liters of safe drinking water through free distribution and the subsidized sale of PUR Purifier of Water sachets by 2012. The “Scaling up the Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program” has recently created a campaign, “Give Your Two Cents Worth,” to generate awareness and allow the general population to make small but significant donations to PSI’s safe water programs.


• The Scojo Foundation is collaborating with PSI to increase access to affordable reading glasses in Zambia, Ethiopia and Kenya through the “Scaling Proven Microfranchise Model for Development” program. It is President Clinton’s "favorite commitment this year" and he believes it “will help hundreds of thousands of people and in the process create a whole new sector of the economy.”



• The “Condé Nast Traveler Five & Alive Fund” has committed to raise funds in support of PSI's Five & Alive program initiative. Five & Alive will sponsor programmatic activities and raise awareness for PSI’s child health and survival programs, including safe drinking water, treatment of diarrheal disease, malaria prevention and treatment, pneumonia treatment and nutritional supplements.

• Launched in 2006, the "Male Circumcision Pilot Project in Zambia" is being implemented by PSI in partnership with JHPIEGO and the Zambian Ministry of Health. The project intends to demonstrate the effectiveness of male circumsion as an HIV prevention measure.

President Clinton launched CGI in 2005 as a non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The defining characteristics of the CGI are its action-oriented nature and its track record of converting pioneering ideas into viable solutions with tangible results. CGI members develop ‘commitments to action’, focusing on practical, effective problem-solving measures that can be taken now.

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