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	<title>CMaDFA: South America visit</title>
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	<description>Learn about Meal-a-Day projects with Bruce Parker and Steve Johnson while they travel in South America.</description>
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		<title>Reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce's reflections after 3 weeks on the road in South America for Meal-a-Day:
It's all about the little ones! The poorest, the little children, the widows and orphans and abused and neglected. Seeing the hard work the recipients of our help are willing to put in on the construction of water and power systems is incredible... [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/10/04/reflections/</link>
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		<title>Water For Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Water is life!   It feels great to help people get pure drinking water.  The village of San Pablo on the Aguarico River has been drinking rain and river water.
Teaming up with the engineering NGO FEDETA, Christadelphian Meal-a-Day Fund of the Americas has nearly completed a new water system to serve this village of 200. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/10/03/water-for-life/</link>
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		<title>Bruce Peru in Bolivia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm sure you remember our visit to Bruce Peru schools in Trujillo, Peru.  Well, Bruce Thornton, with Meal-a-Day help, is trying out his method in Bolivia.  There is one neighborhood school in a barrio outside La Paz that is run by a dedicated teacher named Mary.  We dropped by to see how things are going.
[See [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/10/02/bruce-peru-in-bolivia/</link>
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		<title>The Mothers of Calamarca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We attended a session of the "Club de Madras Calamarca" on Monday.  This isn't something we're funding now but "Save the Children" wanted us to take a look.  "Save the Children" is a highly rated and effective charity organization that we've worked with in the past.  You may remember this little girl, learning to brush [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/10/01/the-mothers-of-calamarca/</link>
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		<title>En Avion, Agua, Tierra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s start with the happy ending.

What was in that dish was, finally, one of the most enjoyable meals I’ve had on this trip.  But I digress.  You want to know how that plane, 4x4 and boat ride went.
Well, as you’ll see in the video clips things were a little less dangerous than we had originally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/09/30/en-avion-agua-tierra/</link>
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		<title>Smoke-free Living</title>
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There are so many things we don't give a second thought to.  Chimneys for example.  But not everyone understands the principle and how using a chimney can eliminate smoke inside the dwelling.  Part of the funding we've given Grupo (remember the trombe walls from a couple of days ago?) has gone towards educating people about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/09/29/smoke-free-living/</link>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm about to be politically incorrect and use someone else's challenged English for a smile or two (readily acknowledging that I can hardly say ten words in Spanish.)  As I've said a couple of times already Bruce and I are funding this exploratory mission entirely ourselves.  I'm pointing this out, not as a self-pat on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/09/28/rules-and-regulations/</link>
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		<title>SOS Children&#8217;s Villages</title>
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The following is pulled from SOS Children's Villages website:
"Colombia is a country of stark contrasts. A picturesque country, rich in natural resources and with a highly qualified labour force, it has been described as one of the most attractive, exotic and mysterious countries in South America.
Yet the beauty of the Andes Mountains, the Amazon rainforest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/09/27/sos-childrens-villages/</link>
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		<title>New Food Groups and Odds and Ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly not bad.  Then we had grilled fish for the second course...
We were eating the whole beans, everyone dipping out of the bowl with spoons.  A bit later in the meal, we noticed that our host, the assistant mayor (the man in the hat in the next picture) was carefully peeling off the husks.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/09/26/new-food-groups-etc/</link>
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		<title>Helping to Warm Homes and Hearts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We made it safely to Cuzco yesterday, took a short walk around and Bruce (who has been here before) pointed out the amazing stonework of some of the buildings.
That was about it for my tourism experience.  I'll have to come back when I have more time.  We met up with Bernardo, our contact from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmadfa.com/blog/2009/09/25/helping-to-warm-homes-and-hearts/</link>
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