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	<description>Extreme Poverty Ends Here</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>WFP Director hails the &#8220;revolution of hope&#8221; in Ruhiira</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/28/wfp-director-hails-the-revolution-of-hope-in-ruhiira/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Welcome visitors, welcome today, we&#8217;ve all been waiting so long!&#8217; Coming over the crest of the hill into the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda, children&#8217;s singing voices gradually become louder, intermingled with bursts of clapping and laughter. The long-awaited visitor, Jeffrey Sachs, is due to arrive at any moment, and the anticipation is palpable. Sachs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sauri farmers learn about new concepts in water and agriculture management</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/20/sauri-farmers-learn-about-new-concepts-in-water-and-agriculture-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth K’Awuor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifty farmers, including 10 women, from Sauri Millennium Village, Western Kenya, were trained in July on new concepts in water and agriculture management by a team from the Arava Institute of Environmental Studies. The training came as a result of a two year old collaboration between The MDG Centre and Mashav, Israel&#8217;s National Agency for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coding Progress: Matt Berg on ICT in the Millennium Villages</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/22/coding-progress-matt-berg-on-ict-in-the-millennium-villages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Shaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When is a text message more than just “hello?” When a community health worker can text symptoms of an illness and receive an instant diagnosis without leaving a patient’s home. When a farmer can report a broken water pump and instantly activate delivery of replacement parts. And when a herder can learn the day’s commodity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Water Resources in Tiby</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/17/improving-water-resources-in-tiby/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/17/improving-water-resources-in-tiby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Shaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tiby, Mali]]></category>

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

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In the savanna of central Mali where rainfall is unreliable, water is precious and clean water rare. Relying on unprotected water sources for drinking and cooking, most of the community in the Millennium Village of Tiby has been constantly at risk of exposure to waterborne disease, which can lead to serious illness and even death.
Today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scaling Up the Millennium Villages Program in Mali</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/08/scaling-up-the-millennium-villages-program-in-mali/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibrahim Diallo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Initiative 166 Council Day, a special event organized by Mali’s Commission for Food Security and its partners, was celebrated on 14-16 April 2010 in Bamako and Segou. This event was part of the celebration of the National Association of Malian Municipalities and was chaired by Mr. Boubacar Sow, Secretary General of the Ministry of Territorial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low-Cost Thrills in Millennium Village Data</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/05/31/low-cost-thrills-in-millennium-village-data/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/05/31/low-cost-thrills-in-millennium-village-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, May 30, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Mwandama, Malawi. While there he had the opportunity to meet with local community members first hand and to see and hear about how they are pursuing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a very practical day-to-day reality. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennium Villages highlighted at the 3rd States General of Development Cooperation in Belgium</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/05/27/millennium-villages-highlighted-at-the-3rd-states-general-of-development-cooperation-in-belgium/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/05/27/millennium-villages-highlighted-at-the-3rd-states-general-of-development-cooperation-in-belgium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 15:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millennium Promise Staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Millennium Development Goals: How to step up the efforts?&#8221; was the central theme of the 3rd &#8220;States General&#8221;, which took place in Brussels on May 4, 2010. The opening session was presided by Her Royal Highness Princess Mathilde, who highlighted the importance of the achievement of the MDGs, Belgium&#8217;s commitment to the Goals and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Important Lessons for Global Academic Innovation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/05/18/some-important-lessons-for-global-academic-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/05/18/some-important-lessons-for-global-academic-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Master's in Development Practice]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced more than $5 million in grants to help ten universities establish cross-disciplinary Master&#8217;s in Development Practice (MDP) degree programs in eight countries around the world. These add to the $10 million in grants that the foundation allocated last year to seed MDP programs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennium Promise Japan: Using sport to connect schoolchildren in Japan and Uganda</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/04/13/millennium-promise-japan-using-sport-to-connect-schoolchildren-in-japan-and-uganda/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/04/13/millennium-promise-japan-using-sport-to-connect-schoolchildren-in-japan-and-uganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Through sports, we can connect without words, and it is upon this belief that Japan-based NGO Amitie was founded, and they use this idea as a means of realising their vision of promoting development and cross-cultural understanding. The main reason for Amitie&#8217;s visit week was for them to inspect the Ryamiyonga Primary School which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennium Promise Japan: Connecting Japan and Uganda through Secondary Education Partnerships</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/04/09/millennium-promise-japan-connecting-japan-and-uganda-through-secondary-education-partnerships/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/04/09/millennium-promise-japan-connecting-japan-and-uganda-through-secondary-education-partnerships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan can feel like a very long way from Africa, and after 21 hours on a plane and a few delayed connections, this feeling certainly rung true for the delegation from Millennium Promise Japan who recently paid a visit to the Ruhiira Millennium Village in Uganda.
And yet connection was the theme that characterised a week [...]]]></description>
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