Chelsea Clinton in Myanmar for clean water project

The Associated Press, Posted:   05/27/2013 08:58:17 AM PDT   

YANGON, Myanmar—Chelsea Clinton is carrying out some of her father's globe-trotting work in a country where her mother blazed a diplomatic trail—Myanmar.

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton,... ((AP Photo/Khin Maung Win))

She represented former President Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative at a Monday ceremony bringing its Children's Safe Drinking Water initiative to the Southeast Asian nation. The program provides water purification packets to areas with unsafe water supplies. The project's organizers say access to safe drinking water is poor in rural Myanmar due to pollution.

Myanmar would have been denied such help a few years ago because it was shunned by the United States for its undemocratic military rule. But as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton helped nudge an elected Myanmar government toward democratic reforms, making a groundbreaking visit in 2011.

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