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		<title>P4K attends the Niger Renaissance Conference in Paris</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pencils for Kids, along with our colleagues Eliminate Poverty Now and LIBO were invited by the Minister of Planning of Niger to attend a two day conference in Paris, December 13-14, on Niger&#8217;s Renaissance &#8211; the five year plan from 2017 to 2021. We were honoured to be invited.  It was an extraordinary conference, attended [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Wentworth&#8217;s first visit to Niger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read about the impressions of another team member from the Farmers of the Future trip, who wrote on the website of our partners Eliminate Poverty Now. &#8220;I just returned from 8 days in Niamey, Niger working with the Farmers of the Future (FOF) project.  John captured in his blog key highlights of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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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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				<category><![CDATA[Raising funds and Awareness for P4K]]></category>
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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>Last day of my trip in Niger, February 17th, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a very early 6:30am breakfast with Judy and John to say goodbye as they were leaving for Benin. Hamani the wonderful picked them up to go to the airport and must have been up at 4:30 to start his day.  At 9am Hamani picked me up for the last day of errands&#8230;&#8230;visit to some shops [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, February 16th, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had the second day of our Farmers meeting today and it was a very fruitful day with much accomplished. We are united in our desire to push the vision forward with five pilot sites. Not yet sure where the five will be. But the highlight for me was the visit all 15 of us [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 3 of fourth trip, February 14th, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day started early with breakfast at the Grand hotel and then a short ride to the ICRISAT facility in Niamey, just across the bridge. Here we met with 14 people from the Ministry of Education, NGOS VIE and FAO, and ICRISAT reps and others to discuss the curriculum of the Farmers of the Future [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Day two, February 14th, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 10pm Niger time and I am reflecting on our long but very productive day in Libore! Up early to visit the Scholarship girls in the CES school, the girls who are in the seconde, premiere and terminal level of school, just prior to going to university if they make it. What a lovely [&#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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