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		<title>Sahara Children Partners with Tagmat</title>
		<link>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2012/02/23/sahara-children-partners-with-tagmat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen DiCrocco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sahara Children’s field reps have met with and agreed to partner with Tagmat, an NGO based in Morocco which identifies itself as a Women’s Association. Tagmat has proposed a goat cheese project to provide income for poor women and their families. Sahara Children will continue to work with Tagmat to assist in their development of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Mission: Follow-up Report</title>
		<link>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2012/01/02/medical-mission-follow-up-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vmonchuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the summer of 2010 Sahara Children supported a group of medical students from Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago on a field trip to the Sahara Desert in Morocco. We first reported this story in July 2010. The students, assisted by Moroccan nurses, traditional birth attendants, and volunteers surveyed around 100 children, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Journal: Your Contributions in Action</title>
		<link>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2011/11/09/goat-update-a-desert-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Erg Chebbi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the success of our WInter 2010-11 fundraiser, your charitable donations help mobilize our efforts in the desert. Liz William&#8217;s chronicles her latest journey to deliver goats: I set off from Marrakech on the 3rd October, across the highest Atlas road pass of Tizi-n-Tichka with hair-pin mountain bends, to the Sahara dunes of the Erg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delivering Goats</title>
		<link>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2011/02/26/delivering-goats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen DiCrocco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Erg Chegaga]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[micro-finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of Sahara Children’s animal banking initiative, on New Year’s Day 2011, Sahara delivered five goats to Issa, a nomad woman without a husband but with four young children. Issa and her family live a simple life in a simple wool tent surrounded by stones on the desert floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give a hoot, Give a Goat!</title>
		<link>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2010/11/23/give-a-hoot-give-a-goat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen DiCrocco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tote bag]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sahara Children is proud to introduce our 2010 holiday season fund-raising gift campaign which continues our animal banking initiative to help poor nomadic families in Morocco start or enhance their herd with the loan of a couple of goats. Now you can give a goat to help a family provide for themselves in the coming winter months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission brings Med Students and Peace Corps together in Oulillimt</title>
		<link>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2010/07/28/mission-brings-med-students-and-peace-corps-together/</link>
		<comments>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2010/07/28/mission-brings-med-students-and-peace-corps-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen DiCrocco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loyola Stritch School of Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sahara Children has collaborated with Loyola University and Mugamara Expeditions to provide funding for a new mission designed to offer healthcare instruction and medical supplies to nomad families of the Sahara Desert. Medical students from Loyola's Stritch School of Medicine met in Morocco on June 14 to set up a five-day camp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving the Lives of the Nomads</title>
		<link>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2010/01/25/changing-the-lives-of-the-nomads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2010/01/25/changing-the-lives-of-the-nomads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen DiCrocco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Sahara Desert, owning a herd of goats, sheep, or camels is the livelihood of nomads. On January 1, Sahara Children helped a young nomad couple in Erg Chegaga in south-eastern Morocco get a kick start to their new life together. Abelhamid and Khadija, around 20 years of age, have nothing and no means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahara Children Initiates Animal Banking</title>
		<link>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2009/12/21/animal-banking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.saharachildren.org/wp/2009/12/21/animal-banking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen DiCrocco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[goats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Iriki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micro-finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morocco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sahara Desert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Micro-financing is a way of helping poor farmers or small business owners by providing small loans to help them kick- start their businesses or make investments in the future.   But how do you provide start up capital to poor populations, such as nomadic groups, who do not deal with money? For the nomads in Morocco their herds of [...]]]></description>
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