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		<title>Treana Sends a Message Home from Alel Chok</title>
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		<title>A Note from Treana: Alel Chok &#8211; One Year Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In December 2010, our first water well was drilled in the village of Alel Chok. It was also my first trip to South Sudan and I was overwhelmed by the desperate urgency of the situation. There were so many basic human needs not being met that I doubted we could make any kind of real difference. I was surrounded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://obakkifoundation.org/blog/2012/02/alel-chok-one-year-later/</link>
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		<title>Giir: A Returnee Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[South Sudan is a nation with 70,000 internally displaced returnees.  These people blur the line between refugee and survivor as they return to a land ravaged by civil war.  The joy in returning is that they have a nation to call home.  The challenge is that they must rebuild from the ground up. The UN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://obakkifoundation.org/blog/2012/01/giir-a-returnee-home/</link>
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		<title>A Note from Treana: Anticipated Return</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember this flight all too well.  5 passengers, beaten up old Cessna, flying at a bumpy 22,000 feet over the Kenyan grassland on my way to Rumbek. It was just a short year ago when I made this trek, and I remember now that I promised myself to find another mode of transportation! However, every passing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://obakkifoundation.org/blog/2012/01/a-note-from-treana-anticipated-return/</link>
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		<title>Happy Holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have so many stories from our last trip and we can’t wait to share them with you. We’re taking a brief hiatus to celebrate the holidays and we’ll back in the New Year. Until then, please enjoy this video footage from our visit to South Sudan last December.]]></description>
		<link>http://obakkifoundation.org/blog/2011/12/happy-holidays-2/</link>
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		<title>A Note from Treana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It is hard to believe I will be back on South Sudan soil within 35 hours. This past year has been a whirlwind &#8211; actually, more of a hurricane to be truthful.  I haven&#8217;t been very good at keeping everyone informed &#8211; I guess part of me has been trying to process what I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://obakkifoundation.org/blog/2011/12/a-note-from-treana/</link>
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		<title>Images into Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are pictures that gnaw at our soul and convert us from apathy into action. This provoking image was taken by renowned photojournalist Brian Sokol and is a stark reminder there are children within this world that see safety as a dream. Brian has spent the last decade in Asia documenting the Nepalese fight for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://obakkifoundation.org/blog/2011/12/imagesinto-action/</link>
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		<title>Sudanese Travels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With excitement we announce Treana arrived back in Africa last week to focus on Sudanese water projects! Over the year, this region has been a global focal point as South Sudan gained independence and became the world’s newest country.  The people’s independence has provided renewed hope and we foresee this time as being one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://obakkifoundation.org/blog/2011/12/sudanese-travels/</link>
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		<title>Gratitude and Appreciation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We want to express a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported the Rainmaker Auction. Every dollar of every donation is currently making its way to the people of Sudan for much needed water relief.  This relief will come in the form of wells, which we are preparing to drill in the coming weeks.  As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://obakkifoundation.org/blog/2011/12/gratitude-and-appreciation/</link>
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		<title>Small World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To think that you could catch a plane and land in a place that is completely unrecognizable and dissimilar to the life you live. At the same time there are many similarities. We are all connected simply by humanity.  It&#8217;s a small world after all.]]></description>
		<link>http://obakkifoundation.org/blog/2011/11/small-world/</link>
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