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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; Joelle Bassoul Mojon</title>
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	<description>Extreme Poverty Ends Here</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Florence, HIV+ and her daughter, HIV negative: two faces of hope</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/14/florence-hiv-and-her-daughter-hiv-negative-two-faces-of-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Wagah</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sauri, Kenya]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A little girl in a dark red dress runs around laughing. Her mother tries to catch her, before she trips on her ruffles and falls. Florence picks up Nicole and dries her tears. A tender and loving moment between a mother and her young daughter, who is learning to discover the world. A sight like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hygiene: talking about it to clear the air</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/18/hygiene-talking-about-it-to-clear-the-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Villages Info]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gumilira, Malawi]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘Before, we were using the bush. Now we have latrines for boys and girls, and the headmaster told us how to use them.’ The 12-year-old boy&#8217;s candid explanation is a reminder of the lack of hygiene that still prevails in schools in rural and poor areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
Like thousands of children, Nasiyani Chiwuye lives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY women bring mega-brand to Mwandama</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/18/diy-women-bring-mega-brand-to-mwandama/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/18/diy-women-bring-mega-brand-to-mwandama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gumilira, Malawi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mwandama, Malawi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Partners]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[malawi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Laundry soap, margarine, cooking oil, skin moisturizer: all these are products shoppers in developed countries drop into their carts without a second thought. In Mwandama, a remote village in Malawi with no supermarket and limited internet, the community was falling right through the meshes of the consumer grid. But a group of enterprising women has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falanes: beating AIDS against all odds</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/01/31/falanes-beating-aids-against-all-odds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gumilira, Malawi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[malawi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, Falanes Josephat hit rock bottom: she suspected her husband of being HIV positive, got tested and found out she was too. In poor, rural Malawi, this meant one thing: death. And, in her case, leaving behind four small children with the bleakest of futures. &#8216;I was depressed. I thought I would die [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cassava bread, the sweet smell of success</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/01/12/cassava-bread-the-sweet-smell-of-success/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/01/12/cassava-bread-the-sweet-smell-of-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mwandama, Malawi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[malawi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Martha dusts a small table with flour then starts kneading the dough, before dividing it into tennis-sized balls. Next to her, Jennifer places the balls on a tray and straight into the oven&#8217;s open mouth. The sweet smell of baked bread suddenly fills the air. A few minutes later, the golden, warm rolls are taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The MVP have opened up the eyes of people,&#8217; says Kenya&#8217;s Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/12/04/the-mvp-have-opened-up-the-eyes-of-people/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/12/04/the-mvp-have-opened-up-the-eyes-of-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dertu, Kenya]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Villages Project]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sauri, Kenya]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ethiopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya&#8217;s Prime Minister Raila Odinga hailed the Millennium Villages Project’s (MVP) achievements in his country, at a meeting in Nairobi with a high-level Ethiopian delegation. &#8216;The MVP have opened up the eyes of people. They have done wonders,&#8217; said Mr. Odinga.
&#8216;Farmers didn’t use fertilizers because they believed that if they did, they could never stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifteen years after the genocide: reconciliation, hope and development</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/10/05/fifteen-years-after-the-genocide/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/10/05/fifteen-years-after-the-genocide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[community ownership]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rwanda]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen years ago, Rwanda was devastated by one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. Close to a million people were massacred in 100 days. As the country continues its difficult but remarkable recovery from the genocide, the Millennium Village of Mayange is living proof that economic development can play a significant role in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda’s Millennium Village exports cassava to Burundi</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/09/30/rwandas-millennium-village-exports-cassava-to-burundi/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/09/30/rwandas-millennium-village-exports-cassava-to-burundi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Patrice Nsihimymihigo&#8217;s small courtyard is covered with cassava. Sitting around it, women peel the brown roots and throw them back milky white onto the pile. Soon, his buyers, Rwandan middlemen, will whisk away his harvest to sell it at the border with Burundi.
Patrice is one of many smallholders in the Mayange Millennium Village, 40 km [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bagfuls of Care</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/08/10/bagfuls-of-care/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/08/10/bagfuls-of-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Interventions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MDG Centres]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Partners]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ruhiira, Uganda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FEED]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lauren Bush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The glitzy New York fashion scene and the muddy hills of a poor Ugandan village may seem worlds apart, but a backpack is bringing them closer.
Lauren and Doreen walk side by side on a dirt road in Ruhiira, a Millennium Village in the South-East of the country, each carrying the exact same bag and chatting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Ambassador to Kenya Visits Dertu Village</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/07/07/french-ambassador-to-kenya-visits-dertu-village/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/07/07/french-ambassador-to-kenya-visits-dertu-village/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Dertu, Kenya]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[french]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, July 6th, the French ambassador to Kenya, Her Excellency Mrs. Elisabeth Barbier, visited the Dertu Millennium Village. She was accompanied by her husband, Mr. Avner Cohen and two embassy employees, Mr. Georges Deiner, counselor for cooperation and cultural affairs, and Ms. Pauline Wesolek, program manager. The visit came ahead of the launch of [...]]]></description>
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