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	<title>Honduras Children</title>
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	<description>Volunteers helping orphaned and neglected children of La Ceiba, Honduras</description>
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		<title>VA Tech Blog: http://vtupep.blogspot.com/</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Many thanks to the recent group from VA Tech.  They spent four weeks in El Porvenir (just left yesterday) and did a fabulous job!  Read about their adventures and impressions in this blog:
http://vtupep.blogspot.com/
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		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=747</link>
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		<title>Project HEAL &#8211; Duke University 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks again to the students from Duke University and Project HEAL.  &#8220;The Dukes&#8221; (as we call them) spent 4 weeks in El Porvenir and did some great work at our kinder and for the community of El Porvenir!
Here&#8217;s a great blog post to learn more about what they did:
http://projectheal2010.wordpress.com/
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		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=735</link>
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		<title>Our survey said . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we reach mid-year we did another survey to see what feedback and advice our volunteers would offer to the incoming volunteers who will take their place.  Transition is hard and we really appreciate that our volunteers have always been very supportive to help prep new folks coming in to work with the children.
Here are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=729</link>
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		<title>Creative Expression leads to Problem Solving and Critical Thinking . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Our experience is that when children are offered an opportunity to express themselves creatively, it leads to a better ability to problem solve and to think critically.
Kudos and many thanks to current Kinder volunteer Sanna S. from Sweden who has developed and implemented a 3X a week art program for children living at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=723</link>
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		<title>Fire Ants &amp; Runaways . . . a day in the life.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Michelle A. recently returned to the U.S. after volunteering with us for about 4 months.  While we were together in Porvenir I asked her if she would write a &#8220;real life&#8221; description of life as a Kinder volunteer.  Michelle warned me in her email that, &#8221; . . .  it was a particularly grueling, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=707</link>
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		<title>Sponsor Blanca Celina V. to attend University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. . .  Blanca Celina V.  has been sponsored by her “padrino” for more than 5  years.  Blanca is  now old enough to attend university . . . and . . . well, here is her  story.
Blanca Celina V. has  lived most of her young life at a  ‘Children’s Village’  (orphanage) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=698</link>
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		<title>Just got back from El Porvenir . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, this is Eve!  &#8211; -   I am the volunteer coordinator for HondurasChildren and I just got home after a week in El Porvenir.  The current volunteers are working on a newsletter to send out about what&#8217;s going on in the kinder so I&#8217;ll give an update on how things are with volunteers.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=691</link>
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		<title>Ofer&#8217;s pix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ofer C. from Israel is a current volunteer at the kinder and is living at the beach house.  Click on this link for some great pix from January, February and March 2010.  &#8211; - http://picasaweb.google.com/ofer16/ElPorvenir#
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		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=681</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t miss a thing . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our volunteers are working hard to compile and send a quarterly newsletter about what&#8217;s going on in El Porvenir.  If you would like to be on our email list to receive a copy, please write to us at info@honduraschildren.org.  (Don&#8217;t worry, we don&#8217;t send out lots of emails . . . just 4-5X a year.)
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=668</link>
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		<title>Views of El Porvenir . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ While El Porvenir is a very poor town just west of the small city of La Ceiba, it&#8217;s also a very beautiful and active place.  The Caribbean sea is just to the North and the Pico Bonito mountains and waterfalls are just to the south.
There is a lagoon just a short walk from where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.honduraschildren.org/?p=660</link>
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