VALBIN AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
02/08/2011 Valbin Wins “TOP 2011 Business” DIV500 Award by Diversity Business
VALBIN CORPORATION has been selected as one of the "Top Business" in  America by DiversityBusiness.com.Valbona Qerimi, CEO will be distinguished as one of the top entrepreneurs in the country at the 11th Annual Diversity Business Conference to be held in Washington D.C. on April 19 – 21, 2011. This event brings together America's Top Business Owners and Top Fortune 500 companies for promoting multicultural business opportunities.
 Over 750,000 businesses in the United States had the opportunity to enter the 11th annual business survey. The awards are based on annual gross revenue and the business profile of each individual company. Valbin Corporation ranked 30th in the Top 50 for Woman Owned and 66th in the Top 100 for privately held companies in the state of Maryland. “This award proves Valbin’s success and the hard work and dedication of all our employees,” said Valbona Qerimi, the company CEO.
At right: Valbin's CEO, Valbona Qerimi and Business Manager, Denia Lopez accept the award from Joan Lunden.
07/29/2010 Role Players Help US Military Practice for Nuclear Bomb Attack
Voice of America:
MUTC, Butlerville, Indiana - The U.S. Army recently held a series of training exercises in Indiana, to teach troops how to react if a small nuclear bomb, set off by terrorists, were to hit an American city. The exercises included crowd control, medical care and rubble removal. Helping to make the mock scenarios especially realistic were the people hired to play the roles of survivors.
And the soldiers appreciate the role players' efforts. In one part of the exercise, the mock survivors are being decontaminated. Lieutenant Zacharia Davis, an army nurse, treats their wounds before they go through the process. "They're pretty good. That's kind of the goal - they want to simulate real casualties, give us really good training," he said.
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5/12/2010 Upper Cape base seeks actors to play Afghan
Cape Cod Times:
HYANNIS - "The importance of having role players during training is so that soldiers get the experience of having to deal with civilians in the particular region," said Lt. Col. Jack McKenna, a spokesman for the Guard. The role players are taught Iraqi and Afghan phrases and wear clothing from those countries. "That realism adds to the training."
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9/25/2008 Local couple helps prepare soldiers for Iraq
The Tattnall Journal: September 25, 2008
Fort Stewart, Ga -The Teagues are among the hundred or so cultural role players supporting the post-mobilization training of the National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers deploying out of Fort Stewart. The role players provide vital realistic human interactions with the Soldiers.
“Cultural role players help us create the context of the environment Arrowhead soldiers will operate in,” said Col. George Geczy, III, commander of the 188th Infantry Brigade, the First Army Division East unit responsible for the 56th IBCT post-mobilization training team. “They may be training inside the Georgia pines, but they are operating on the same human terrain because of our great role players.”
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