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		<title>HeartWorks ElderCare 2025 Comforter Delivery!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Autumn Greetings Wherever You Are! Here in Lacomb, Oregon, the colored leaves are falling and there is a nip in the air, reminding us to wear scarves, dig out our long sleeves and start thinking about hunkering down. Everything is still luscious and green, but we are feeling the season’s change with fire building, great [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nhimbe Community Garden Doing Well!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Nhimbe for Progress Community Center gardens continue to produce, even though the inclement weather destroyed crops, and the fire ruined many of their efforts in 2021. We are grateful to see that the elderly residents keep reaping the rewards, as does our Nhimbe preschool. Since the regular gardener was off work, Efilda, our inventory [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Preschool Graduation and Soap Distribution Day!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Graduation day for the Nhimbe for Progress Preschool and our resident&#8217;s soap/mask distribution were brought together on December 17th. Both went on quiet well. Muda, our new co-director, shares the following story: . &#8220;We were graced by the local councilor and health workers. You will notice from the photos some did not even have masks [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MMC Girls December Meeting Successes!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here is some video to be able to peek into the world of our MMC program (Mhandara Monthly Care), which focuses on the maturing girl. This gathering was a normal Friday afternoon meeting, but was highlighted with the addition of MMC Start-up Kits for the new girls. They spent the afternoon together enjoying music, sewing, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mhondoro Update and New 3-D Masks!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2020 01:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The new 3-D mask has been extremely well received, with a sense of more air available (less confining), better facial fit around the edges with a nice nose piece, beautiful craftsmanship, as well as a lovely array of designs woven into high-quality cloth.  Newly donated and purchased fabrics have found their way to the volunteers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Upcoming Trip/Permaculture Update</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First I want to thank all of you who have either contributed directly to airfare or the financial energy to support this trip! It started with us looking for volunteers, and then a couple of you responding, knowing that the airfare is a burden for a volunteer to be able to offer both the time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Great W.A.T.E.R! News!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[W.A.T.E.R! = Wells And Toilets Everyone’s Right! After some difficulties in acquiring cement, we are now in a position to source the cement for wells! Ancient Ways has saved enough since 2013 to build 22 wells right away before the rainy season comes in November. Around 7% of the residents have a pure water well. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Underwear for Over There Celebration!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This 2011 video clip shows the joy of the girl guides who received 3 pair of panties in response to our &#8220;Underwear for Over There&#8221; Campaign. Many more girls received underwear but were not present at this Girl Guides Life Skills Learning Retreat in late August. In 2012, we our expanding the campaign to be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NMT Practitioners to Donate Treatments for Village Residents</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our Donhodzo Health Center provides services to anyone who comes to its doors without charge.  We offer conventional approaches, traditional herbs, alternative methods and counseling.  One of the alternatives is that our Senior Nurse has been trained in NMT (see nmt.md) and has had great success.  An adjunct to this is a new program that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Underwear for Over There a Huge Success!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaiaen Beck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our Senior Nurse reports: “All girls have been afforded underwear in a colorful presentation ceremony by our Director which coincided with the August Girl Guides Camp. This goes a long way in addressing the many sanitary issues of the girl child in our disadvantaged communities. &#8221; Check out the video soon to be online.  In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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