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	<title>Landmark Education News About Landmark Forum Graduates &#187; Economic Development</title>
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		<title>Give me the Words Aids Guatemalans</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/08/04/give-me-the-words-aids-guatemalans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/08/04/give-me-the-words-aids-guatemalans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johntrue</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mars Tanumihardja used his participation in Landmark Education&#8217;s Self-Expression and Leadership program to create a benefit concert to raise funds for some of the poorest people in central America. Tanumihardja arranged for the concert to be held at the Newman Center at the University of Washington, where he is the head of the music ministry. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicagoan Takes on Abandoned Lots</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/06/26/chicagoan-takes-on-abandoned-lots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/06/26/chicagoan-takes-on-abandoned-lots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicagoan Sean Parnell took on a big problem in his Self-Expression and Leadership program&#8211;The problem of abandoned homes or lots. Many houses or lots, particularly in poorer west and south side neighborhoods, have stood empty for many years. Parnell saw that this creates many problems for the community, from the use of those properties for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joy2theWorld Goes Back to Ghana</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/06/06/joy2theworld-goes-back-to-ghana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/06/06/joy2theworld-goes-back-to-ghana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joy2theWorld is a one year-old non-profit microcredit provider to parts of Ghana, West Africa, founded by Kathleen Gibbs, who was inspired to create the organization through her participation in Landmark Education&#8217;s programs. According to a recent release, Joy2theWorld is significantly expanding its microcredit loans to the businesswomen in several villages comprising approximately 10,000 people in rural Medie, Ghana, when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joy to the World: Microloans Empower Women in Ghana</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/22/san-jose-graduate-brings-joy-to-the-world-via-microloans-to-women-in-ghana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/22/san-jose-graduate-brings-joy-to-the-world-via-microloans-to-women-in-ghana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Landmark Education graduate Kathleen Gibbs has founded Joy2theWorld.org, a non-profit microlending organization designed to empower women in Africa. Founded less than a year ago, Joy2theWorld has gone from being an idea to a reality that is already making a difference in the lives of thousands of villagers in Ghana.
When Kathleen Gibbs did the Landmark Advanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landmark Education Graduate Creates New Economic Opportunities for Rural Villagers in Karnataka</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/01/28/landmark-education-graduate-creates-new-economic-opportunities-for-rural-villagers-in-karnataka/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/01/28/landmark-education-graduate-creates-new-economic-opportunities-for-rural-villagers-in-karnataka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/01/28/landmark-education-graduate-creates-new-economic-opportunities-for-rural-villagers-in-karnataka/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[G.V. Bhat lives in Sirsi, India, a small town with a problem common to rural India: no jobs, or more accurately, no middle class white collar jobs. This problem causes educated youth to leave the villages they grew up in as soon as they are of working age, overpopulating the cities and emptying rural communities. Bhat took Landmark Education&#8217;s Self-Expression [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landmark Forum Graduates partner with Habitat for Humanity to renovate a house and generate huge volunteer response</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/12/14/landmark-forum-graduates-partner-with-habitat-for-humanity-to-renovate-a-house-and-generate-huge-volunteer-response/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/12/14/landmark-forum-graduates-partner-with-habitat-for-humanity-to-renovate-a-house-and-generate-huge-volunteer-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather D</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Denver Self Expression and Leadership Program participant Kristina Yarrington worked with her husband to create a community project to renovate a home with Habitat for Humanity.
Here is the story from the Rocky Mountain News
Kristina Yarrington, and her husband, David, sit amid construction material as work continues Monday on a soon- to-be-donated house on Mariposa Street [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corazon de Vida: A Landmark Education SELP Project started in 1994</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/11/15/corazon-de-vida-a-landmark-education-selp-project-started-in-1994/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/11/15/corazon-de-vida-a-landmark-education-selp-project-started-in-1994/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Snortland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Corazon de Vida was created in 1994 as a Self-Expression and Leadership Program project by Hilda Pacheco-Taylor in Newport Beach, California. Corazon de Vida recently had its latest Child Sponsorship dinner and announced that it is now sponsoring 14 orphanages in Baja, Mexico.
“Delivering hope”
Corazon de Vida, an Irvine-based charity supporting the struggling orphanages of Baja [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utah Youth Making a Difference in India through Landmark Education Project</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/10/01/youth-making-a-difference-in-india-and-selp-project-from-utah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/10/01/youth-making-a-difference-in-india-and-selp-project-from-utah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather D</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Youth Making a Difference got its start in the Landmark Education Self-Expression and Leadership Program when Robert Baird determined that he wanted to find a way for young adults to discover their own ability to make a difference.  As a business man, Robert does a lot of work in India.  On his trips there he was moved by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gerald Schwartz Working to Resolve Northern California Water Disputes</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/08/21/gerald-schwartz-working-to-resolve-northern-california-water-disputes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/08/21/gerald-schwartz-working-to-resolve-northern-california-water-disputes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Cahill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerald Schwartz is a Landmark Education Graduate and leads introductions to The Landmark Forum.  He has also been a farmer in California’s Central Valley for most of his life and was recently appointed to be the Central Valley Regional Liaison on water issues.  The history of water rights in California is fraught with lawsuits, animosity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trucken for Katrina: Michigan Families Donate Adopting Families on the Gulf Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/08/03/truckin-for-katrina-michigan-families-donate-adopting-families-on-the-gulf-coast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/08/03/truckin-for-katrina-michigan-families-donate-adopting-families-on-the-gulf-coast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Cahill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Trucken for Katrina: A project started in the Landmark Team Management and Leadership Program 
Not long after Hurricane Katrina hit Sherrill Sundberg learned that one of her neighbors had 4 separate family members who each lost their homes.  She was participating in the Landmark Team Management and Leadership Program at the time and immediately knew what she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Animals and Trees On A Bridal Registry&#8230;?  Well, of course if you are out to make a differnce.</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/07/19/farm-animals-and-trees-on-a-bridal-registry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/07/19/farm-animals-and-trees-on-a-bridal-registry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Cahill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
On most bridal registries you will find things like coffee makers, china, linens and other household goods.  
&#160;
If you were on the guest list of Linda and Richard Frary&#8217;s wedding last spring, you would have found goats, pigs and trees; all items that they were asking be purchased through Heifer International in order to benefit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Face Forward: Providing Makeovers for Women Recovering From Substance Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2006/12/19/face-forward-providing-makeovers-for-women-recovering-from-substance-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2006/12/19/face-forward-providing-makeovers-for-women-recovering-from-substance-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Snortland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Heather Rozen, of
Lowell Massachusetts found herself moved by the plight of low-income women trying to put their lives back together while recovering from substance abuse.  She created a community project called “Face Forward” to give them makeovers and support them in gaining a new sense of themselves  as they search for jobs and rebuild their lives.
Here is a story about [...]]]></description>
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