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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; Partners</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>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>
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		<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>

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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>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>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[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>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>

		<category><![CDATA[School-2-School]]></category>

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

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

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		<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>Faith&#8217;s story of hope: Towards virtual elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/08/17/faiths-story-of-hope-towards-virtual-elimination-of-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/08/17/faiths-story-of-hope-towards-virtual-elimination-of-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Wambua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is 10:50 am on a cloudless August day in Western Kenya. The HIV and AIDS Counselor from Sauri Health Centre and I have taken the short drive to the home of Lilian Awino Adhiambo, a 32 year old mother of 6 children aged 9 months to 13 years.
At first sight, this is just another [...]]]></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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

		<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>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>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/20/sauri-farmers-learn-about-new-concepts-in-water-and-agriculture-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth K’Awuor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<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>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/22/coding-progress-matt-berg-on-ict-in-the-millennium-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Shaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1224</guid>
		<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>Renowned Japanese Professor visits Sauri Millennium Village</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/03/19/renowned-japanese-professor-visits-sauri-millennium-village/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/03/19/renowned-japanese-professor-visits-sauri-millennium-village/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Munyendo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
This March Prof. Masayuki Tadokoro, a well known professor of International politics at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, took two weeks off to visit the Sauri Millennium Village Project (MVP) with Millennium Promise Japan staff. With the intent of looking at ways the university could cooperate with the MVP in the future, the Professor was interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seminar Report: Addressing energy needs in the Millennium Villages</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/03/08/seminar-report-addressing-energy-needs-in-the-millennium-villages/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/03/08/seminar-report-addressing-energy-needs-in-the-millennium-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Shaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Energy services are increasingly important for the Millennium Villages (MVs), and at a special breakfast seminar on February 25, 2010, Mr. James L. Dobson, CFA at Wunderlich Securities and member of the MV Energy Advisory Board, and Dr. Vijay Modi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University and Infrastructure Sector Leader of the MV project, [...]]]></description>
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