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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; Mayange, Rwanda</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>UNAIDS and MVP review the first results of their partnership</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/14/unaids-and-mvp-review-the-first-results-of-their-partnership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Wambua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Teams from the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and several UN bodies met in Nairobi in February to review the progress registered so far in the partnership launched a year ago between UNAIDS and the Project. The aim of the MTCT Free Zones Initiative is to establish zones where transmission of HIV from mother to child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayange sees the light at the end of the tunnel!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/07/mayange-sees-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chrysostome Mutwarangabo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mayange had been yearning for this moment for a long time: finally, the community of this Rwanda Millennium Village has seen the light, in every sense of the word.
Janvier Nzanywayimana was one of the people who were living in the dark. Now connection to the electricity grid has allowed him to go to university. How? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging from traditional to income-generating farming</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/01/26/emerging-from-traditional-to-income-generating-farming/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/01/26/emerging-from-traditional-to-income-generating-farming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeannette Mukabalisa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[An entrepreneurial group of Mayange residents are building a new business by taking an old idea—beekeeping—and updating it with the help of training from the Millennium Villages Project and financial support from the Mayange Community Development Fund.
A total of 33 men and women who previously kept from one to ten traditional beehives to produce medicinal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Successful launch of Mayange’s cassava flour plant</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/01/04/successful-launch-of-mayange-cassava-flour-plant/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/01/04/successful-launch-of-mayange-cassava-flour-plant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aloys Hakizimana</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All were anxiously expecting it: the farmers in order to sell off their harvest, the community to buy good quality products, and the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) team to kick-start this income generating venture. On November 10, the cassava flour processing plant started production in Mayange, Rwanda. Less than two months later, it&#8217;s already a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifteen years after the genocide: reconciliation, hope and development</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/10/05/fifteen-years-after-the-genocide/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/10/05/fifteen-years-after-the-genocide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen years ago, Rwanda was devastated by one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. Close to a million people were massacred in 100 days. As the country continues its difficult but remarkable recovery from the genocide, the Millennium Village of Mayange is living proof that economic development can play a significant role in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda’s Millennium Village exports cassava to Burundi</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/09/30/rwandas-millennium-village-exports-cassava-to-burundi/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/09/30/rwandas-millennium-village-exports-cassava-to-burundi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Patrice Nsihimymihigo&#8217;s small courtyard is covered with cassava. Sitting around it, women peel the brown roots and throw them back milky white onto the pile. Soon, his buyers, Rwandan middlemen, will whisk away his harvest to sell it at the border with Burundi.
Patrice is one of many smallholders in the Mayange Millennium Village, 40 km [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Results: Addressing Misconceptions About The Millennium Villages Project</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/06/24/sustainable-results-addressing-misconceptions-about-the-millennium-villages-project/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/06/24/sustainable-results-addressing-misconceptions-about-the-millennium-villages-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Ndahiro</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Rwanda, Magatte Wade&#8217;s strange recent Huffington Post blog was received with quite a bit of surprise.
Wade&#8217;s assertions over what she calls &#8220;ignorant&#8221; and &#8220;arrogant&#8221; rules for village tourism is wholly off-base. For starters, the community itself began the official tour program&#8211;in partnership with a private sector partner&#8211;nearly two years ago as a way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting the Millennium Development Goals is the Best Investment</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/06/12/meeting-the-millennium-development-goals-is-the-best-investment/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/06/12/meeting-the-millennium-development-goals-is-the-best-investment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrina Kahl</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent entry in the Huffington Post, Josh Ruxin discusses why we must keep our promise to end global poverty, even during the worst economic recession of the last several decades. He explains that achieving the Millennium Development Goals is one of the most cost-effective investments we can make: meeting the MDGs will help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Damon Visits Mayange</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/06/02/matt-damon-visits-mayange/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/06/02/matt-damon-visits-mayange/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katrina Kahl</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent fact finding mission in Rwanda, Matt Damon and a team from ONEXONE – a nonprofit foundation that supports the work of Millennium Promise – visited the Mayange Millennium Village. Here they had the opportunity to visit schools, hospitals, farms and locally-owned businesses to talk to community members about the Millennium Villages project [...]]]></description>
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