A tsunami-relief project partially funded by a Jewish group received a matching contribution from the fund headed by former Presidents Bush and Clinton. The playground project in Sri Lanka now has $2 million pledged to it, half from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and half from the Bush-Clinton Fund.
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