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    <description>The Latest Mercy Corps Women Content</description>
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	<title>Real Challenges</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/afghanistan/2336/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan Country Director Nigel Pont gives his unique perspective on the present situation and what Mercy Corps is doing today and in the future to help communities and families in this challenging region.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:27:31 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Investing in Women and Girls is Key to Ending Global Poverty</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/women/2206/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Mercy Corps is teaming with Oxfam and the Women's Environmental and Development Organization to increase programs for women and climate change.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:31:20 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Promoting 'Early and Exclusive' Breastfeeding</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/indonesia/2120/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Breastfeeding rates may be at a 20-year high in the U.S., but they're alarmingly low in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mercy Corps is helping mothers and clinics give at-risk infants a healthier start.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:00:40 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Untrammeled Spirit</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/zimbabwe/2100/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Tryphine lost her father when she was seven and her home at age 12. Mercy Corps is connecting her to the help she needs to overcome the challenges thrown her way at such an early age.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:39:29 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Solutions for Sudan</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/sudan/2101/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Mercy Corps supporters, we continue to help the hardworking people of Sudan survive — and even envision brighter times ahead. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:37:57 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Turning Trash into Cash</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/ethiopia/2070/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[With support from Mercy Corps and a local organization called Women in Self-Employment (WISE), Tafessu and her neighbors are finding a way to transform potato skins and fruit peels into fuel.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:39:09 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Congo: Rainstorms, Lava and a Human Flood</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/women/2063/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Emergency response manager Richard Jacquot writes about what he's seeing on the ground in northeastern Congo— and what we're doing to help.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:00:04 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>A Lodge 'Bigger Than The Hilton'</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/sudan/2240/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[A traveler's lodge run by a Wunrok women's group is one of 15 female-owned enterprises in Twic County — others include restaurants and tea stalls — that Mercy Corps has supported with trainings and grants over the last two years.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:52:42 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>New Skills for Asha</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/sudan/2021/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[By looking at 25-year-old Asha, you could never tell that she has been through so much in her young life. But despite tragedy, Mercy Corps is helping her learn new skills to support her young family.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:29:28 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Empowerment Through Gardening</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/indonesia/1984/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The women of Mirik Lamreudup village are not only winning awards for their organic agriculture, but sharing their newfound success with other women in the area.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:31:12 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Regaining Independence</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/indonesia/1985/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The Indian Ocean tsunami nearly destroyed Halawiyah's business &amp;mdash; but what came afterward threatened her family's livelihood even more. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:13:54 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Annisah: An Acehnese Woman's Spirit</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/indonesia/1982/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[&quot;I will do anything to increase my family's income as long as it's legal,&quot; said Annisah, a 30-year-old woman who is part of Mercy Corps' Aceh Recovery Program. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:28:12 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>The Ladies of Mercy Corps Somalia</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/somalia/1923/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Barnicle hosts a revealing roundtable in which he quickly realized his assumptions on Somali women were wrong.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:15:01 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Finally Home</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/women/1735/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[After years of post-conflict displacement, a Bosnian mother and her young son find a new home through Mercy Corps.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:11:16 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>A Stitch in Time</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/serbia/1532/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Two thousand pairs of pants are just the beginning for Nevenka Mihalovic.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:49:49 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Cecilia: A Harvest of Hope</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/uganda/1529/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Cecilia Lamunu remembers life before the war and is beginning to reclaim that life for herself.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:00:01 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Q&amp;A: Afghanistan, Five Years After the Taliban Fell</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/afghanistan/1461/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Michael Bowers, former Mercy Corps Country Director in Afghanistan, describes his experiences and shares his thoughts.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:22:41 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Coffee Sales Spur Better Health</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/nicaragua/1458/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Your purchase of Café Aldea coffee funds mobile clinics in remote Nicaraguan towns.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Beauty Will Save the World</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/women/1447/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[In an isolated village with few opportunities for women, Nadira Mamdova realized her dream to be a hairdresser.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:16:46 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Darfur Crisis: Re-Commit to Families</title>
	<link>http://www.mercycorps.org/countries/sudan/1358/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[As the situation worsens in Sudan's Darfur region, Mercy Corps continues to assist - and help protect - more than 117,000 people.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:07:05 -0700</pubDate>
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