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		<title>Pennies for Peace really added up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boys and girls, teachers and friends recently participated in the Pennies for Peace campaign in the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union schools. Delta Kappa Gamma, ETA Chapter, Bennington, sponsored the Pennies for Peace project in our schools. Delta Kappa Gamma is a society of women educators, both working and retired, in the area. Pennies for Peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies for Peace: Brownie Scout style</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These three Brownie Scouts are passionate about their cause: Pennies for Peace. Just this past weekend they could be found on their neighborhood street corner collecting pennies. A good weekend nets around $20. All 375-plus students at Leawood Elementary are helping too. The pennies will go to help buy school supplies for students in Pakistan. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burlingame students collect coins to build schools in Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students from Burlingame&#8217;s Lincoln Elementary, appropriately enough, recently launched a penny drive. The first collection of the students&#8217; Pennies for Peace Campaign has raised about $300 for the Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization in Montana that promotes and supports community-based education — especially for girls in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite past, New Jersey joins in fete for Lincoln</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He lost the popular vote in New Jersey in two presidential elections, and was assailed by a future governor as the &#8220;original gorilla&#8221; and a &#8220;well-meaning baboon.&#8221; The president-elect was also savaged by New Jersey legislators, who ridiculed his height when he addressed them in Trenton. One lawmaker offered a resolution describing him as &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Finds an Unlikely Adviser in School-Building Humanitarian</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Mortenson, a humanitarian and co-author of the best-selling book &#8220;Three Cups of Tea,&#8221; has a surprising new job: advising the U.S. military on how to fight Islamic extremism. Mr. Mortenson is a former mountain climber who has built 78 schools in remote, poverty-stricken parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan. His foundation, the Central Asia Institute, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teens promote reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of Cleburne High School’s Teen Library Board have been involved in a series of projects to promote reading in the community and around the world. “We’ve had a very busy first semester,” said CHS Librarian Fran Rader. “Membership is up this year, and it is very exciting to see what our students have done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum collects ‘Pennies for Peace&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suffolk Museum and the Suffolk Art League participating in the Pennies for Peace program. The penny, 1 percent of a dollar, is symbolic of the “1% of Gross Domestic Product” goal set by the United Nations for wealthy countries to give foreign aid to impoverished nations each year. Pennies for Peace teaches children the rewards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies for Peace displays the real value of education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pennies for Peace teaches children the rewards of sharing and working together to bring hope and educational opportunities to children in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A penny in the United States is virtually worthless, but in Pakistan and Afghanistan a penny buys a pencil and opens the door to literacy. The mission of Central Asia Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign to collect pennies for schools in Middle East, raise consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It costs $50,000 to build a school in the Middle East, so Chico State, along with the community, is making it a goal to collect that amount. Pennies for Peace, a campaign trying to collect money to build schools in the Middle East, kicks off spring semester by placing receptacles all over campus to collect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies For Peace Campaign Doubles Goal</title>
		<link>http://www.gregmortenson.com/2008/12/rockford-reg-star-dec13-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Pennies for Peace Steering Committee are asked daily about the final results of our local effort to raise funds to build and endow a school for the children in the Himalayas of Afghanistan or Pakistan with help from Greg Mortensen’s Central Asia Institute. We are proud to report: $100,319.98! Thank you to [...]]]></description>
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