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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; Business Development</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>

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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>Education, no matter the cost</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/11/education-no-matter-the-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;I have always had it in my heart that every child needs and deserves an education, but I previously had no way to realise that dream,&#8217; explains Kambunda Evarist, founder and head teacher of St. Evarist Primary School in Ruhiira. Back in 2004, he decided to pool all the resources he had to establish a [...]]]></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>

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		<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>Sauri looks back on five years of success</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/02/phase-ii-here-we-come-sauri-looks-back-on-five-years-of-success/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/02/phase-ii-here-we-come-sauri-looks-back-on-five-years-of-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Munyendo</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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

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

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		<category><![CDATA[MDG's]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Located in Western Kenya, Sauri was the first Millennium Village (MV) to see the light in 2005. Five years on, the project area has grown to nearly 70,000 people and has registered numerous successes in its multi-sectoral approach.
The MV team and the community celebrated this at the inauguration of new classrooms at the end of [...]]]></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>Empowering women: the force behind Ruhiira&#8217;s best restaurant</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/01/05/empowering-women-the-force-behind-ruhiiras-best-restaurant/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/01/05/empowering-women-the-force-behind-ruhiiras-best-restaurant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[micro-finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[secondary education]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Lunch time in Ruhiira? Look no further. &#8216;Fang Fang&#8217; is the place to go for yummy matooke (bananas) and beans. The woman behind this thriving micro-business is Tumushabe Boneconcila, whose entrepreneurial spirit is doing much to both improve the quality of her own life and radically shake up ideas of traditional gender roles in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating the Millennium Villages: A response to Clemens and Demombynes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/13/evaluating-the-millennium-villages-a-response-to-clemens-and-demombynes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/13/evaluating-the-millennium-villages-a-response-to-clemens-and-demombynes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Pronyk</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Demombynes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Sachs]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Clemens]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To download this article as a PDF, please click HERE.
The discussion around evaluating large-scale development projects is an important one.  Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes offer a critique of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) and its research methods.  Their paper misunderstands the MVP&#8217;s aims and evaluation methods.  We respond briefly here, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Community Resource Centre: Ruhiira&#8217;s window on the world</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/09/23/the-community-resource-centre-ruhiiras-window-on-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/09/23/the-community-resource-centre-ruhiiras-window-on-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, next to the Ruhiira Health Centre was a relatively unassuming looking building surrounded by scattered building blocks and cast in the shadow of a towering radio mast which usually had the ICT facilitator Elly Nankunda tinkering at the top of it.
Come July 2010, however, and the place was unrecognisable, transformed into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marenyo community proud of its achievements, four years on</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/08/03/marenyo-community-proud-of-its-achievements-four-years-on/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/08/03/marenyo-community-proud-of-its-achievements-four-years-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Munyendo</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first time that US Ambassador Earl N. Phillips heard about Marenyo, a community within Sauri Millennium Village (Western Kenya), was four years ago during a conference. Touched by the story, he decided to support the villagers to fulfill their objective of lifting themselves out of poverty and reaching the Millennium Development Goals. But little [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/28/wfp-director-hails-the-revolution-of-hope-in-ruhiira/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1257</guid>
		<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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