WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Administrator Alfonso Lenhardt will travel to India and Bangladesh August 24 to September 1. While in Mumbai, India, Lenhardt will launch the India premier of the new girl's education film 'Girl Rising: Woh Padhegi, Woh Udegi', and tour a Tata lab as part of the Agency's focus on innovation.  In New Delhi, India, Lenhardt will join Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Third Global Call to Action Summit 2015, a confluence of health ministers, practitioners and global leaders meeting to share best practices and reaffirm their commitment for ending preventable child and maternal deaths.   

In Bangladesh, Lenhardt will visit several USAID field projects near Bagherat that are advancing Presidential Initiatives in health and climate change, and conduct meetings with Government of Bangladesh officials in Dhaka. In addition, as part of USAID's continuing efforts to support labor rights, union organizing, and women's empowerment in the ready-made garment sector, Lenhardt will hold discussions with representatives of workers' safety advocacy coalitions and staff of the USAID-supported Solidarity Center.  

The second annual Acting on the Call Report will be released at the New Delhi Call to Action Summit.  This report is a status update on the first report, which detailed how USAID will join partners to save 15 million children and 600,000 women by 2020.  For more information, please visit: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall

'Girl Rising: Woh Padhegi, Woh Udegi' is a ground-breaking film by Academy Award nominee Richard E. Robbins that is the center piece a USAID public private partnership, Girl Rising; ENGAGE, an international campaign for girls' education and empowerment that uses the power of storytelling to ignite people to take action.  To find out more about the film go to www.girlrising.in