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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; Dertu, Kenya</title>
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	<description>Extreme Poverty Ends Here</description>
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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>
		
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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>&#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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
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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>Dertu promoted to the administrative status of regional Division</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/11/18/dertu-promoted-to-the-administrative-status-of-regional-division/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahmed Mohamed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[May 2009 was a turning point for the people of the Millennium Village of Dertu, Northern Kenya. The administrative status of Dertu changed from Location to Division, and the day was marked with jovial celebrations headed by the Provincial Commissioner for North Eastern Province Josphat Maingi, the Deputy Speaker and Member of Parliament for Lagdera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coping mechanisms to face a devastating drought</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/11/11/coping-mechanisms-to-face-a-devastating-drought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahmed Mohamed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate change is a reality in the Millennium Village of Dertu and Northern Kenya. The region has been receiving only showers since November/December 2006, a situation that has lead to deteriorating pasture and water over time in this nomadic based area. After the failure of the April/May 2009 rains, the intensity of the drought started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Health Worker Training in Dertu, Kenya</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/09/09/community-health-worker-training-in-dertu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackline Oluoch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Community Based Management for Health program, currently being implemented across the Millennium Villages in East and Southern Africa, stopped recently in the pastoralist village of Dertu, Kenya which has 850 households (350 sedentary and 500 migratory).
In this difficult, arid area where communities move in search of water and pasture, the role played by Community [...]]]></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>
		
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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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		<title>A camel, a tree and a blackboard: Dertu’s mobile school</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/06/30/a-camel-a-tree-and-a-blackboard-dertus-mobile-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting under a sprawling acacia tree, Abdulahi Bari Barrow points to his blackboard and asks the students to repeat the lesson after him. Here, there are no classrooms and no roof other than the branches, no walls other than the tree trunk which supports the blackboard, and no desk other than the straw mat laid [...]]]></description>
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