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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; Ruhiira, Uganda</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>Mama kit: Every detail counts in fight for maternal health</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/26/mama-kit-every-detail-counts-in-fight-for-maternal-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shakilah Bint Shiekh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Improving maternal health and encouraging expectant women to deliver at a health facility is a priority for the Millennium Villages Project (MVP). Several interventions are being implemented to boost institutional delivery. In Ruhiira, Uganda, only 8% of pregnant women delivered in a facility when the project first started. This number has gone up to 89%. [...]]]></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>

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		<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>Infection free health facilities: Ruhiira scores first place!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/23/infection-free-health-facilities-ruhiira-scores-first-place/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/23/infection-free-health-facilities-ruhiira-scores-first-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shakilah Bint Shiekh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, the Uganda ministry of health entered a partnership with JHPIEGO, an affiliate of John Hopkins University, and the General Electric (GE) Foundation to improve infection prevention practices in 12 health facilities in Isingiro district where Ruhiira Millennium Village is located.
An external evaluation commissioned by the partners revealed that the best performers, after two [...]]]></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>
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		<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>

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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>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>

		<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>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>

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<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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		<title>Ruhiira&#8217;s midwives, more than just medical workers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/09/13/ruhiiras-midwives-more-than-just-medical-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/09/13/ruhiiras-midwives-more-than-just-medical-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maternal health has been one of the biggest success stories of the Ruhiira Millennium Village. As a result of the comprehensive midwife program package, institutional delivery has increased from 8% in 2006 to as high as 89% in 2009. Since the introduction of the Program in Ruhiira in 2007, not one mother delivering with the [...]]]></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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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		<title>Scaling Up the Millennium Villages Program in Mali</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/08/scaling-up-the-millennium-villages-program-in-mali/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/08/scaling-up-the-millennium-villages-program-in-mali/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibrahim Diallo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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

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

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		<category><![CDATA[scale-up]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Initiative 166 Council Day, a special event organized by Mali’s Commission for Food Security and its partners, was celebrated on 14-16 April 2010 in Bamako and Segou. This event was part of the celebration of the National Association of Malian Municipalities and was chaired by Mr. Boubacar Sow, Secretary General of the Ministry of Territorial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennium Promise Japan: Using sport to connect schoolchildren in Japan and Uganda</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/04/13/millennium-promise-japan-using-sport-to-connect-schoolchildren-in-japan-and-uganda/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/04/13/millennium-promise-japan-using-sport-to-connect-schoolchildren-in-japan-and-uganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Through sports, we can connect without words, and it is upon this belief that Japan-based NGO Amitie was founded, and they use this idea as a means of realising their vision of promoting development and cross-cultural understanding. The main reason for Amitie&#8217;s visit week was for them to inspect the Ryamiyonga Primary School which is [...]]]></description>
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