When the opportunity of a partnership with American Initiatives for Social Development Foundation came to us, we felt a sense of pride and gladness. Pride for the reason that it is because of our many years of experience and hard work in achieving common goals for promoting economic, social and cultural advancement in developing countries that American Initiatives came to us. Gladness because of having the chance to provide the know-how and technical support to an organization with a real commitment to work and have an effective contribution to reduce poverty in diverse countries, person by person, project by project, community by community.

The twenty years of work by the FPSC reflect our understanding of cooperation as a contributing factor to reducing poverty in such diverse countries, and as a contribution toward peace. FPSC started as a modest initiative, as American Initiatives does, taking its first steps in the field of international development cooperation. Today, twenty one years later, the Foundation is one of the Non Governmental Development Organizations listed by the AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation). It has carried out 206 projects in a total of 31 countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan and North Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

We have total confidence in AI's commitment to the needy, and its capacity to develop a special role in the promotion of human and social sustainable development in the United States and other countries. FPSC will provide American Initiatives the needed support to ensure that its work will have an effective impact from conception.

We hope to be able to share this pride and gladness with many people in the following years and to see the great things that our partnership has made true. We hope you will fall involved with AI's work and begin being a part of this journey soon.

Sincerely,

Pilar Lara

President