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		<title>HAITI: Creative Establishes Presence in Port-au-Prince</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May, Creative Associates opened a corporate office in Haiti. Arielle Jean-Baptiste has rejoined Creative to direct the office from Port-au-Prince. She has extensive field experience in Haiti with USAID and the United Nations. Creative President Charito Kruvant said “Our dedication to Haiti has deep roots. Creative is committed to bringing our professional resources to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RABAT: USAID, Moroccan Government Launch New Education Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morocco’s Education Secretary, Latifa El Abida, joined with representatives of the education sector and the U.S. Mission to launch USAID’s Moroccan ITQANE education project on April 29th. The event received broad coverage in Morocco’s media. Mrs. El Abida emphasized the Ministry’s and her own personal commitment to this new USAID project. American Ambassador Samuel Kaplan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Supporting at Home What We Do Abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creative’s Stephen Horblitt (First Vice Chair of the Board of Directors) and Jessica Kruvant (Board Member) pictured with Greater Washington Urban League (GWUL) President Maudine Cooper. Creative’s commitment to neighborhoods communities and regions is at the core of our mission. Creative is a longtime supporter of our community in the Metropolitan Washington Region through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KYRGYZSTAN: Youth Program Makes USAID “Nation’s Key Donor Institution.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television screens across the world flashed pictures on April 7th of the young faces of Kyrgyzstan’s displaced, angry and disenfranchised who came out of novostroika squatter settlements into Bishkek’s public squares. Within two weeks of these events, USAID’s Quality Learning Project launched the Youth AID for Education program. More than 2,000 youth participated in painting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WEST BANK: First Female Municipal Manager Appointed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suhad Awawdeh is an energetic young woman who is helping her culturally traditional community to change and grow. This twenty-six year-old computer engineer, wife and mother impressed Idna Mayor Jamal Tmaizi with her competence and poise while working as the community’s Municipal Computer Manager. When Mayor Tmaizi was searching for a new Municipal Manager for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TURKMENISTAN: Teachers Introduced to Multimedia Learning Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has championed education reforms, including extending compulsory education to ten years. In April, USAID’s Quality Learning Project helped support the country’s commitment to modernizing educational opportunities. The training session, led by administrators and specialists from Turkmenistan’s National Institute of Education, was attended by 28 school teachers. The first such seminar to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q &amp; A: Joel Schlesinger on the “Youth Bulge” Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel E. Schlesinger is the Vice President and Director of Creative’s Education, Mobilization and Communication division. In the 1990s, Schlesinger, as USAID’s Mission Director to Mali under Administrator J. Brian Atwood, led one of eleven missions that became the Clinton Administration’s “re-engineering laboratories.” “It was a time of opening doors and asking ourselves (Agency staff) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KYRGYZSTAN: Children Thrive Under New Approach to Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kyrgyz children are being given the chance to take a hands on approach to learning and they like it. USAID-funded training that emphasizes “Quality Learning is the Basis for Essential Skills” is making a difference, Teachers are learning to establish objectives for their lesson plans and to measure the effectiveness of lessons by embracing self [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UGANDA: School ‘Family Units’ Provide Confidence, Moral Compass and Academic Achievement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Kampala’s slums, Ugandan children &#8212; many who have lost their parents &#8212; commonly live in one room shelters. Their guardians, facing their own daily struggle for survival, can hardly fulfill these children’s parenting needs. A local school has stepped forward to bridge the gap. Each Monday at Railway Primary School from 4 to 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KYRGYZSTAN: USAID Youth Program in Bishkek’s “Golden Circle” Yields Promising Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is hard in Kyrgyzstan’s novostroikas. Existing outside the legal jurisdiction of municipalities established after the fall of the Soviet Union, those living in these “new settlements” face unemployment, dysentery, and hepatitis as part of their daily landscape. Caustically known as the “Golden Circle,” the novostroikas are the result of an inward migration by rural [...]]]></description>
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