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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; Education</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>Dertu MVP students shine in 2010 National exam</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/06/dertu-mvp-students-shine-in-2010-national-exam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdi Sheikh Mohammed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Dertu, Kenya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With a little more than 700 students, Dertu&#8217;s primary school, set in this remote pastoralist village in arid Northern Kenya, was certainly not expecting to be in the news. So the joy and pride were big when a photo of one of its students was featured in a daily newspaper: Mohamed Amin Abdishukri scored the [...]]]></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>

		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></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>Nineteen students from Mbola receive a secondary school scholarship</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/01/nineteen-students-from-mbola-receive-a-secondary-school-scholarship/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/01/nineteen-students-from-mbola-receive-a-secondary-school-scholarship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liana Mavura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mbola, Tanzania]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Connect To Learn]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nineteen students from Mbola Millennium Village, in Uyui district in Tanzania, have been awarded secondary school scholarships from the Connect To Learn program. The scholarship recipients are attending local schools supported by Connect To Learn with mobile broadband technology investments in order to provide these students, their classmates and their teachers with access to quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovative tropical laboratory in the middle of the Ghanaian rainforest</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/22/innovative-tropical-laboratory-in-the-middle-of-the-ghanaian-rainforest/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/22/innovative-tropical-laboratory-in-the-middle-of-the-ghanaian-rainforest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nela Berlanga</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bonsaaso, Ghana]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[General Villages Info]]></category>

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I arrived to the Bonsaaso Millennium Villages Project (MVP) site, my first impressions regarding the status of healthcare delivery were above expectations:  I was pleasantly surprised about the great work that MVP and the Ghana Health Service had carried out in this cluster. I found 7 functional health centers, managed by midwives operating [...]]]></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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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		<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>Koraro receives an award for its education achievements</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/01/21/koraro-receives-an-award-for-its-education-achievements/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/01/21/koraro-receives-an-award-for-its-education-achievements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tadele Atakelti</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Millennium Village of Koraro, Ethiopia, was recognized for its achievements in the field of primary education in the state of Tigray, and was awarded a trophy and certificate in the local educational festival in December 2010.
Since 20005, Koraro has significantly contributed to the expansion and strengthening of universal primary education in the 22 establishments [...]]]></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>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1408</guid>
		<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>Ruhiira to Connecticut, just a mouse-click away</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/25/ruhiira-to-connecticut-just-a-mouse-click-away/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/25/ruhiira-to-connecticut-just-a-mouse-click-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kabagambe Fudier, head of ICT programs at Omwicwamba Primary School in Ruhiira, is truly an embodiment of what the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is all about: by utilising the tools and skills provided by the project, he has created change both in his personal and professional life. A powerhouse of energy and enthusiasm, his finger [...]]]></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[community ownership]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1311</guid>
		<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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