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	<title>Building Education From the Ground Up</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/children/2214/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Proyecto Aldea Global (PAG), a longtime Mercy Corps partner, is helping to address the plight of Honduran students and teachers through a program called PROLENCAH.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:37:12 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>The Footsteps of Millions</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/education/2172/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The long road from impoverished village to chaotic city is fraught with difficulties for Chinese migrants. Mercy Corps helps them change challenges into opportunities.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:51:34 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Perfect Harmony Family</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/education/2174/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The 500 pounds of homemade noodles that Guo Guifen sells each market day keep local cook-pots full - and have won her family the village's top honor.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:58:42 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Planting Day</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/education/2175/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The day a garden is established is one of happiness and hope for families - especially with the knowledge that they can remain at home and tend it through harvest.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:38:41 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Nourishing Roots</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/education/2176/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Zheng Hong, a former professor of micropaleontology, has moved out from behind the microscope to focus on one of China's biggest social issues: migrant youth.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:18:52 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Dandelion Seeds</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/china/2177/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[For many years Hu Yan and her brother floated from city to city with their mother, a migrant worker. Today, they have settled in a place where they're flourishing.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:32:28 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Finding Hope on the Side of the Road</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/education/2178/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[One day as Guo Peiling was rummaging around the neighborhood for his recycling business, he found a school for his youngest daughter.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:23 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>After Slavery, Unshackling Potential</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/nepal/2062/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Conflict, ethnic discord and slavery have long kept western Nepal poor and hopeless. Mercy Corps is helping youth unite and change society.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:02:18 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>The Last Girl In School</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/nepal/2065/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[For the last few years, 12-year-old Anita has stayed home while her peers walked to the village school. But not today]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:21:24 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Optimism and Action Transform a Village</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/nepal/2066/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[In the village of Bichpuri, trees and vegetables are part of the reason that no one is without the possibility of an education.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:47:25 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Rising From Violence</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/nepal/2067/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[On a hot August day, violence and ruin came to the Geti camp. Less than a week later, good neighbors were helping shaken families rebuild their homes.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:34:08 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Change Begins Within</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/nepal/2068/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[A 14-year-old son of bonded laborers brought learning to his people through literacy classes &amp;mdash; and ended up leading a movement that resulted in freedom.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:36:52 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>An Ancient Culture Confronts New Challenges</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/china/1943/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The Liangshan Yi are an ethnic group at risk; faced with the challenges of a Chinese economy that seems to be leaving them behind, they need the optimism, ingenuity and action of their youth more than ever.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:17:09 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>The China Few Have Seen</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/china/1944/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Zhuhe Township is hundreds of miles - and seems hundreds of years - away from China's rapidly growing, ultramodern cities.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:50:39 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Bringing a Culture Back from the Brink</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/hivaids/1945/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Professor Hou Yuangao, alongside Mercy Corps, is helping to save and preserve his own endangered ethnic group.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:28:21 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Living and Learning Together</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/hivaids/1946/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The young women of Project GLOW display remarkable grace and a zest for life amid the hardships of life in the Liangshan Yi villages.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:34:03 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>From Grief to Hope</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/hivaids/1947/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Having already endured an untimely loss, a mother finds solace in a daughter involved in Project GLOW.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:11:40 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Q&amp;A with Guo Xin</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/china/1948/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps China's Program Officer for Project GLOW discusses her work in the Liangshan Yi area.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:24:56 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>A Song of Sadness</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/china/1949/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Young Mahai Azhi, who's gone from being an orphan to succeeding in school, musically shares her poignant emotions.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:04:56 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Tahanee: Teaching Job Skills to Young Women</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/westbankgaza/1614/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[A new school for girls in the West Bank town of Dura has boosted the hopes of job hunters.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:42:23 -0800</pubDate>
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