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		<title>Beacon Program expands to include 20 women in Eastern Province of Rwanda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news: 20 more women have joined the Beacon Program! Through the Beacon Program, unemployed women start small businesses selling the K-Light solar lantern in their communities. The women work together in a cooperative to run the business, and the addition of this new group marks the opening of the second branch of Ingenzi za [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koinonia Foundation&#8217;s YouTube Channel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Koinonia Foundation has a YouTube channel! We&#8217;ve been busily uploading our videos and plan to upload some more soon. These FlipCams we&#8217;ve got have proven to be very popular &#8211; and very useful. We&#8217;re even filming some of our informational video on them. Check out a video we uploaded of the training session last month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Trip to Rwanda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone,
My name is Nicole. I&#8217;m the intern. I&#8217;m a senior at Grand Valley State University and have been very lucky to participate in this internship program with the Koinonia Foundation this semester.  A large portion of my internship involved creating business lessons to teach to the existing, and also the new, Beacon Women. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda, March 2010: Beacon Program Training and Fundraising Underway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a week since Nicole and I returned from Rwanda to Michigan. Apparently, we missed some wonderful weather. When I drove into Michigan from Chicago late last Wednesday night (thanks to the pleasure of international flight delays), I could hardly believe it when there was no snow left on the ground. Nicole and I experienced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beacon Program Business Training in Full Swing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a great way to celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day &#8211; empowering women through business education. We have now finished two of the four days of intensive business training for the Beacon Program women. Nicole&#8217;s lesson plan is this:
Friday/Monday: Bookkeeping, accounting, inventory
Tuesday: Marketing and advertising
Wednesday: Business plan and wrap up
Monday: Spend the day at the store with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrival in Rwanda, March 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicole and I made it to Rwanda a day late, thanks to &#8220;technical difficulties&#8221; that grounded our plane in Brussels on Tuesday.
Luckily, if you&#8217;re going to be stranded (and comped hotel rooms and meals), Brussels isn&#8217;t a bad place to be.
Unfortunately, our delay pushed our training back from Wednesday to Friday. That meant that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Rwanda: Beacon Women Get New Storefront</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Koinonia Foundation president, Andrew Williams. Andy is currently in Rwanda through early April:
Let’s start this with a question: Although I, in truth, thought that the oncoming bus did come awfully close to the MotoTaxi I was riding on the back of, was it really necessary for my driver to cross himself as we sped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beacon Program: Women Getting Shirts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To help the Beacon Program women increase their presence in the Nyarugenge district, the women are getting shirts advertising their cooperative.
The women chose the shirt color and their tagline &#8220;Tera Imbere.&#8221; Their logo is modeled after the Foundation&#8217;s.
&#8220;Tera Imbere&#8221; means &#8220;to progress&#8221; or &#8220;to move forward&#8221; in Kinyarwanda.
I&#8217;ll upload the backs when they get printed; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beacon Program: Ingenzi K-Light Cooperative, Rwanda</title>
		<link>http://www.kfaid.com/news-and-updates/beacon-program-ingenzi-k-light-cooperative-rwanda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beacon Program developments can be found here:
Koinonia Foundation president Andrew Williams recently traveled to Rwanda and met with the women who form the Ingenzi K-Light Cooperative.
Beata, the woman running the program, is really fantastic. She and the women have made an astounding amount of progress in these past few months.
Among other things, the women have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beacon Program Update: &#8220;Ingenzi K-Light&#8221; Cooperative</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Koinonia Foundation has awarded the first micro-grant to the women of the Beacon Program. Each of the 10 women of the Ingenzi K-Light Cooperative has been awarded 6 K-Lights as the capital with which to start her small business.
Before receiving the grant, the women received business training and training in the use of the [...]]]></description>
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