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		<title>We&#8217;ve Been Featured on the Premier of Ontario&#8217;s Blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were recently featured on Premier Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s blog &#8211; BlogOn(tario). Here is what he had to say: &#8220;This time of year, especially, we all try to look for ways to make a difference. The spirit of the holidays helps us open our hearts to families and communities who don’t have the same opportunities we [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>This Holiday Season: Help Us Give Children the Support They Need to Take Control of Their Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, in honour of those you love, give the gift of education to a child in Liboré, Niger, Africa. It has been a challenging year for the people of Liboré, Niger. Pencils for Kids has officially launched its Farmers of the Future program together with our partner, Eliminate Poverty Now, in three villages, teaching children how [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts about 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a year of progress for Pencils for Kids despite very challenging economic times. We continued to build meaningful relationships with our partners that will definitely have a lasting impact on the people of Liboré, Niger. P4K has developed an approach which balances direct funding and sponsorship for a small number of model programmes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the new year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a tough weekend&#8230;..a few days ago two French tourists were kidnapped and murdered in the capital city of Niamey. They were taken from a busy restaurant by armed men, and the security there is heightened because of this and the upcoming elections.  This has really shaken the people there and only increases [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>On my way to Niger for the fourth time January 9th, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in February 2010, that I visited a remote village in Gorouberi with the Mayor, Vice Mayor, Hamani, Ramatou, Alioun and others to see the well that Rotary had drilled.  When the Mayor informed me that the children in this village had never attended school, because there wasn&#8217;t one, I committed on the spot [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>FINAL DAY of our trip: Day Six, Sunday, February 7th, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was truly the first relaxing day since we arrived in Niger. We had completed all that we had set out to do and it was time to reflect and spend time with friends on our final day. Ramatou and her mom, Fatimata, or Fati (the Mayor’s wife), joined us at the hotel for two [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>DAY FIVE of our trip to Niger,  Saturday, February 6th, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met the Mayor at 7:30 this morning for my trip to Liboré. Alioun his son was driving and it was great to finally meet him. Ed was planning to leave with the ORBIS bus to go to Liboré at 8:30am for the day of outreach. We arrived in Liboré shortly before 8am and already [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>DAY FOUR of our trip to Niger, Friday, February 5th, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today ORBIS staff under Perry’s guidance, went out to Liboré to train 17 health representatives, one from every village. From all reports, it went amazingly well. Thrilling for me to know how much ORBIS is accomplishing in Niger and in Liboré. It was yet another great day….a touch less hectic for the first time since [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>DAY THREE of our trip to Niger, February 4th, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is midnight and we are just getting into our room. What a day. We were picked up at 7:45 am to go to Liboré, to the village of Guireginde, to launch the first ever Farmers of the Future program. There were two armed soldiers on our jeep escorting us every step of the way [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Day TWO in Niger, February 3rd, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We woke up early and Ed went with the ORBIS team to the airplane for his first meeting at 7:30am. He was very excited to see the airplane and expected to give his lecture on PHACO later in the afternoon. He had been preparing this lecture for a couple months, first writing it in English, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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