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Albany Father Helps Bring Health and Education Programs to Southeast Asia

The East Meets West Foundation, run by Albany's John Anner, received a Gates Foundation grant to fund sanitation programs in Vietnam and Cambodia.

East Meets West Foundation, an international development agency in Oakland headed by Albany resident and parent John Anner, was recently awarded a grant of nearly $11 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve sanitation and health services in Southeast Asia.

Anner may be most widely known in town for promoting the annual Albany Criterium bike race, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"photo-feature-bikers-race-round-albany-streets"} --> around , which donates proceeds to the

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