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Ambassador Nolan and Minister Ramatlapeng cut the ribbon as members of the media look on

Embassy Opens new Offices

On Thursday January 28th, 2010, U.S. Ambassador Robert B. Nolan officially opened a block of newly built offices at the Embassy.

The new Office space has a long history within the U.S. Mission in Lesotho, from 1977 when the first USAID Mission Director was assigned to Maseru; it served as USAID office space until 1995 when the USAID closed 27 of its Missions worldwide, including its Mission to Lesotho due to budget constraints. Immediately following the closure, the Embassy converted the former USAID offices to a warehouse to support its operations.

In July 2008, the Embassy completed phase I of its conversion of the former USAID offices, and now warehouse space to the initial on-compound offices of the PEPFAR and MCC teams. As the PEPFAR team continued to grow, it became apparent that phase II would be essential. And the completion of Phase II was celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

The new PEPFAR offices provide a professional working environment for approximately 25 staff members from four different US government agencies working under the umbrella of PEPFAR, i.e. Dept of State, USAID, Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and Department Of Defense (DoD).

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Interfaith Day of Service and local NGO's gift food and blankets to two children's homes

On Monday January 25th, 2010, The Interfaith Day of Service (IFDS) Committee of the U.S. Embassy made donations to two disadvantaged organizations in Maseru. The donations went to God’s Love Center in Sekamaneng and St. Angela Cheshire Home.

The IFDS members reached out to a variety of organizations, churches, businesses, clubs, etc. in the Maseru area to solicit donations for a food drive, these are the donations that were then donated to the God’s Love Center and the St. Angela’s Cheshire Home on Monday January 25th 2010.

 

The Bob Livingston Trio wows Maseru

Embassy Maseru was provided with a rare opportunity to begin the December festive season with its first music concert since USIS offices closed in 1998!  ARS sent the Bob Livingston Trio on a tour of Southern Africa, and Lesotho was the third of four countries on the group’s tour.  While in Maseru, the band played for about 550 people, at five different venues.

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