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            <title>A Priceless Gift for Mother's Day</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[CEDPA President and CEO Yolonda Richardson comments on a priceless gift that we can give women and girls around the world.  Simple reproductive health education can save lives, especially those of young girls.]]></description>
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            <title>A Better Future for China's Girls</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[During a recent visit to China and with funding from the Goldman Sachs Foundation, CEDPA staff interviewed migrant girls in the Beijing area to identify key social and educational obstacles to their educational attainment and development.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>African Women Leaders Speak on AIDS</title>
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            <title>Joining Forces for Change: The Women, Faith &amp; Development Summit</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new alliance of women, faith and development leaders announced a $1 billion commitment to empower women and fight poverty. At left: CEDPA alumna Luisa Etede and former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, at the Washington, D.C. summit.]]></description>
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            <title>Webcast: WRAI’s National Safe Motherhood Event in India</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Today, maternal health advocates, ministers and parliamentarians commemorated National Safe Motherhood Day and launched the “Deliver Now for Women and Children” campaign in India.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>World Health Day 2008</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the U.S., expanding health care access is a topic of debate among the three remaining candidates for the U.S. presidency. World Health Day (April 7) offers the chance to broaden the debate to include the people most in need of better health care—the world’s women, especially its young women.]]></description>
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            <title>Coaching Women to Succeed</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 23 women leaders who joined CEDPA last week in Washington, D.C. came from vastly different cultures, but shared a common story. Each overcame enormous barriers to advance to leadership positions. Now, they are supporting a new generation of women leaders through CEDPA's coaching program.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Postcard from India</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When CEDPA's Laurette Cucuzza visited the sparsely populated, arid Barmer district in Rajasthan, India, she met with youth being trained as educators to improve child and reproductive health in 32 villages in the region. Rupa Choudhary (pictured left) is one of them.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Advancing the Dreams of Egypt's Women and Girls</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ingy Amin Mohamed, an alumni of CEDPA's Global Women in Management program, works to improve the lives of women heading households in Egypt through legal assistance, literacy training, health care and seminars to build their self-confidence.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Promoting the Value of Education in Equatorial Guinea</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Montserrat Masela Ebang's parents were farmers in rural Equatorial Guinea who could barely read and write. They believed she should get an education. Now, Montserrat works with a cooperative providing low cost loans to famers like her parents.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>A Door-to-Door Advocate for Women and Girls in Angola</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Evalina Sangui Ndombele, a refugee of Angola’s civil war, returned to her capital city to found the Angolan Women’s Network — an organization that goes door-to-door to provide women with lifesaving health information and to encourage parents to send girls to school.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Promoting Microcredit for Women in Mexico</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In Mexico's rural areas, families often prefer to keep their daughters working at home than to keep them in school, locking them in a cycle of poverty. Carola Conde Bonfil strives to help these women lift themselves up through microcredit and education on business, health and nutrition.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>A Champion for Nigeria's Rural Women</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Many years ago in Nigeria, a mother risked her reputation to make sure her daughter had the educational opportunities she did not have. Now, her daughter Imo is a powerhouse who strives to help Nigerian girls and women escape rural poverty.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Advancing Health and Nutrition for Panama's Children</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ana Eugenia Gonzales Ruiz de Cordova works tirelessly to make sure that children in Panama have adequate nutrition, sometimes travelling more than seven hours by boat to reach indigenous populations. Now, with training provided by CEDPA, she has gained new knowledge and skills to strengthen her institution and improve her work.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>International Women's Day 2008: Investing in Women and Girls</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On International Women's Day, March 8, read the stories of six remarkable women who are leading change within communities worldwide. Their work offers hope for a day when every girl will grow up to reach her full potential. Click on their pictures below to learn more.
       
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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