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		<title>Pencils for Kids reaches a meaningful milestone!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dov Institute opens its doors to students on October 14th 2024! We’re thrilled to share that this October marked the ground-breaking launch of agricultural training at the Dov Institute, Niger&#8217;s first training center dedicated to transforming agricultural and educational practice in the country. It&#8217;s taken ten years in partnership with Eliminate Poverty Now, from conception to fruition and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Kicking off the year with a trip to Ghana</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just returned from a very productive trip to Ghana where we spent a week with our Niger team. Our partner, John Craig, from Eliminate Poverty Now wrote a beautiful piece summarizing the trip: &#160; Hi All – Just back from my latest trip to Africa.  The focus was on plans to launch agricultural training [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Robin receives the Governor General&#8217;s Meritorious Service Medal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin, her daughter Sam, and husband Ed at Rideau Hall on December 7th, 2023 as Robin receives the Governor General&#8217;s Meritorious Service Medal for her work in Niger.]]></description>
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		<title>2023 &#8211; Pencils for Kids’ 18th year in Niger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 22:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pencils for Kids’ 18th year has been a year of both progress and upheaval in Niger.  &#160; The Coup On July 26, 2023, the military took over the government of Niger. Niger had been widely viewed as the last bastion of democracy in the West African Sahel, so the military takeover caught many by surprise, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Official Opening of the Dov Institute December 13th, 2022</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my 9th trip to Niger, on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022, we officially opened the Dov Institute, our new Training Centre for Horticultural Technicians along with our partner, John Craig, from Eliminate Poverty Now.  The Minister of Higher Education, Minister Djibo, officially opened the Institute, cut the ribbon, and gave his approval to open our [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>2021 — Pencils for Kids’ 16th year in Niger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2021 — Pencils for Kids’ 16th year in Niger, has been a year filled with both hope and despair — as we get closer to opening the Dov Centre, A Training School for Horticultural Technicians, and also witnessed the tragedy in Niger when over 46 small children perished in fires in their kindergartens made of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Check out the 100th episode of the Preconceived podcast — we&#8217;re featured!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are so pleased to be featured on the 100th episode of the podcast Preconceived, hosted by Zale Mednick. In the episode, titled Do it Afraid, P4K founder Robin Mednick shares the inspirational story of how Pencils for Kids came to be, and what she has learned along the way. Watch the interview on YouTube &#62; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>2020 Marks Pencils for Kids’ 15th year in Niger – a milestone.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year has been one of the most challenging for the world in recent memory. The people of Niger have not only been impacted by the pandemic but by the worst flooding in over 100 years. Niger is considered to be one of the poorest countries in the world and this situation has been devastating [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Niger in the time of COVID-19</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a glimpse into how life in Niger has changed since the arrival of COVID-19. Using masks&#8230; Before the pandemic, it cost only 100 CFA (West African franc) for a mask ($1CDN Dollar = $433 CFA). But as soon as the Government announced the first case of Covid-19 in Niger, the cost increased to 500. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>An incredible trip to Niger, January 2018!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a successful trip to Paris for the five year planning conference on the Renaissance of Niger, John Craig, from Eliminate Poverty Now and I headed to Niger for many followup meetings.  It was an incredibly busy and productive trip. We officially launched our Training Centre for Horticultural Technicians in Libore, on the same site [&#8230;]]]></description>
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