The goal of the program is to develop community capacity for health education / information and to promote activities on such topics as: Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, hygiene and sanitation, mine awareness and injury prevention, and prevention of communicable diseases such as HIV and STDs. Fluent in written and spoken English; Arabic an asset.

The United Nations country team on Tuesday launched its Consolidated Appeal (CA) for Eritrea for the year 2002, requesting a total of US $120 million to fund a series of emergency and reintegration programmes drawn up by 11 UN agencies and partner NGOs.

Eritrea, a country of 3.5 million people, is infested with about two million mines and units of unexploded ordnance (UXO), Andebrhan Weldegiorgis, the commissioner for coordination with the UN peacekeeping mission, has told the UN General Assembly in New York.

Four EU diplomats, who had been recalled from Eritrea in protest against the expulsion in October by the Eritrean authorities of the Italian ambassador, have arrived back in the capital, Asmara.