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	<title>Chickens For Christmas</title>
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	<description>Feed families this Christmas by giving the gift that keeps on laying</description>
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		<title>Empowering Chicken Farmers in Sierra Leone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Give a man a chicken and his family will eat for a day. Empower him to raise chickens and his family will eat for a lifetime.&#8221; Empowering is the key in helping people out of the cycle of poverty. That is what we want to do with the farmers in Sierra Leone. There are at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2011/12/empowering-chicken-farmers-in-sierra-leone/</link>
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		<title>Farming God&#8217;s Way Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SCHDO and Mercy Ships staff came to Makondu village to visit Edward Koroma with 14 people from Freetown, including 5 classmates of Edward’s from the ‘Training the Trainers’ course given by Mercy Ships in Farming God’s Way. As a graduate of the course, he has trained his first 13 students in Makondu in mulching and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2011/11/farming-gods-way-training/</link>
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		<title>Wellington Orphanage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We continue to marvel at how the Lord is working in the children of Wellington Orphanage. These children have been instilled with the vision that they will be the future Christian leaders of Sierra Leone, and that they can do anything God puts in their hearts and they set their minds to do. Many more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2011/11/wellington-orphanage/</link>
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		<title>Poultry Farming God&#8217;s Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The challenges of 2011 for the Sierra Leone poultry farmers is the escalating price of corn which is one of their main feed ingredients. With no commercial feedmill they also have difficulty obtaining a reasonably priced concentrate (approx 30% of ration with essential protein, vitamins and minerals) as well as being able to balance their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2011/09/poultry-farming-gods-way/</link>
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		<title>Farming God&#8217;s Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Feb 25, 2011 The ship African Mercy arrived in the Freetown harbor and one week later I met with an agricultural staff member of Mercy Ships. They graciously allowed our staff member Edward Koroma to be trained as a trainer in Farming God’s Way. I left Sierra Leone a few days later and returned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2011/09/farming-gods-way/</link>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our quest to help alleviate poverty in Sierra Leone through helping farmers with chicken flocks has not changed but is expanding. Here is an update on what we have learned and what we are doing. Your support in prayer is essential and financial support very much appreciated. Following you will see two reports on how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2011/09/update/</link>
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		<title>Corn Sprouts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The donated corn seeds from Canada are just starting to sprout and should out-produce the local varieties!   This corn will be purchased for the SCHDO (Sierra Canadian Humanitarian &#38; Development Organization) feedmill in order to feed the chickens in the Poultry Project.  It is still too early to tell how well the corn is doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2010/10/corn-sprouts/</link>
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		<title>Expansion in the Corn Field</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten farmers have been selected to collectively grow 60 acres of corn.  They attended a workshop on September 2 and are being trained in business management and microfinance.  The farmers will receive the seeds and fertilizer on loan and will grow the corn.  SCHDO will purchase the harvested corn from the farmers, send it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2010/09/poultry-project-expansion-has-begun/</link>
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		<title>Progress for the Poultry Project!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conrad Van Dijk has just returned from a very fruitful trip to Sierra Leone (July 29 to August 14) and after six months of planning, the pieces are starting to fall together! Farmers will soon be planting 60 acres of corn for chicken feed. New chicks are being ordered to replace the current layers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2010/08/progress-for-the-poultry-project/</link>
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		<title>Second week in Sierra Leone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some photos of Conrad&#8217;s second week in Sierra Leone which he spent visiting the three small churches that have developed as a result of the Alpha Program in our farming communities, holding brainstorming sessions for the next two years of the Poultry Project, visiting the Network for Children in Need and the community [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickensforchristmas.com/2010/02/second-week-in-sierra-leone/</link>
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