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	<title>Hope for Afghan Children</title>
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	<description>A gathering place for AFCECO supporters</description>
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		<title>July 30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this summer I met a twenty-six year old volunteer  from Italy who had come to work for an NGO in Kabul.  She left me with a parting gift today, a Penguin edition of Swift’s satire, Gulliver’s Travels. Simultaneously I happened to read a senior thesis written by a student from a prestigious New England [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/07/july-3/</link>
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		<title>July 24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winding along the edge of a cliff that plummets a thousand feet, I gave a silent prayer of thanks to the Chinese company that built the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, for doing the impossible and doing it well.  I also prayed that now was not the time for one of the frequent rockslides to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/07/july-24/</link>
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		<title>July 16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have completed the curriculum for the rest of the year. If you sponsor an older child in Kabul, she or he is going to enjoy a very demanding but I hope fun second semester to the school year.  I am going with the topical approach to teaching English.  Why not learn something while we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/07/july-16/</link>
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		<title>July 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the morning of January 9th, 2001, two men forcibly entered a small mud-bricked home near the village of Yakawlang, Afghanistan only to find a black haired, black eyed, freckle-faced, five-year old Hazara girl alone in the room stoking a heater.  The girl looked at the men’s faces, then at their Kalashnikov rifles that already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/07/july-9/</link>
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		<title>July 2nd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die.”
This is a quote attached anonymously to a video commemorating the life of Carl Sagan.  The video was brought to my attention this morning by a man who sponsors a child at Sitara I.  Sometimes I just like Nasruddin Hodha the foolish Mullah of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/07/july-2nd/</link>
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		<title>June 25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bashardost, his given name, means lover of humanity.  Ramazan of course refers to the month of fasting, a month of sacrifice.  As people die in this war (for NATO and ISAF soldiers and Marines, and for Afghan forces the worst month in the war’s nine year history, for civilians the worst year), and as oil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/06/june-25/</link>
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		<title>June 18th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I listen to music that brings me back, as particular tunes always will, to a time in my life, a specific event, or even a conversation or singular human act.  In times gone by it would only have been a concert, listening to a stereo in my bedroom or driving down the highway in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/06/june-18th/</link>
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		<title>June 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…
I am back with my students.  I look at the sign Omid made for me on Teacher’s Day, and though it is overstated it nevertheless fills me with purpose and a tablespoon of pride: “The children future to Ian-jan hand”.  The fact he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/06/june-11/</link>
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		<title>June 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have not seen the children for three days.  The “peace” Jurga is in town, along with ten thousand extra troops.  Rocket attacks, suicide bombers arrived on the first day.  Yesterday, quiet.  Today, who knows.  The entire city is shut down.  Nobody goes out.  This is normal protocol.  It is strange to think of developing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/06/june-4/</link>
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		<title>May 28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Feedom is love; teacher is book.”
Monday morning, instead of bringing me to Sitara II for classes Jamshid and Andeisha first needed to be dropped off at Mehan orphanage for a meeting.  When we arrived I knew something was up.  The porch and courtyard were empty.  I wanted to retrieve some materials I’d left in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeforafghanchildren.org/2010/05/may-28/</link>
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