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		<title>Michigan based Koinonia Foundation helps Rwandan villagers harness the sun with solar energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article ran about us today in the online environmental publication, examiner.com.
Check it out! 
From the article&#8230;
&#8220;&#8230;A few years later while visiting a school in Rwanda, Dr. Williams observed, &#8216;We were in an area where they had English, French and Science, but no computers. I figured no education is complete without computers.&#8217;
In 2004, Dr. Williams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experience Rwanda: Sponsorship Levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A big thank you to our great sponsors for &#8220;Experience Rwanda&#8221;!
Supporting Sponsor

PiSAT Solar

Cuisine Sponsor

Celebration! Cinema
CompuCraft
Feyen Zylstra

Bar Sponsor

JetCo Solutions

In-Kind Sponsor

Bar Divani &#8211; Venue Sponsor
Greystone Print Solutions &#8211; Printing Sponsor
834 Design &#38; Marketing &#8211; Design Sponsor
Ekleinfeld.com &#8211; T-shirt Sponsor

Sponsorship opportunities are still available for this great event. By donating to this cause, you will help improve education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Experience Rwanda&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Announcing Koinonia Foundation&#8217;s first annual fundraiser!

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		<title>What&#8217;s new at Koinonia Foundation? A lot.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of behind the scenes work goes into planning a fundraiser, and that is definitely true when you&#8217;re trying to plan the first one.
We are so grateful to the Grand Rapids community for embracing Koinonia Foundation in the ways that they have. Here&#8217;s a great example: the owner of Bar Divani has graciously offered [...]]]></description>
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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 to install solar power system at school in Rwamagana, Rwanda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 18:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve started spreading the word that Koinonia Foundation will host its first fundraiser this fall in Grand Rapids. (Side note: If you&#8217;d like to assist in some capacity, contact ashley@kfaid.com.) Proceeds from the event will help fund the cost and installation of a solar power system at a school in Rwamagana, Rwanda.
The install is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Founder Dale Williams named Thought Leader in Energy by Business Review West Michigan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 17:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our founder, Dr. Dale Williams, was recently named a Thought Leader in Energy by Business Review West Michigan. As promised in my earlier blog, here&#8217;s the link to the full story: &#8220;A Light in the Dark.&#8221;
From the article&#8230;
What sparked your interest in alternative energy? 
In 1996, following the genocide in Rwanda, I worked at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donation of K-Lights to Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 16:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, causing great tragedy for the people of an already beleaguered country.
PiSAT, the company that developed the K-Light, was contacted by a customer who felt that PiSAT and Koinonia could do something for people in Haiti. What we were able to do was only a very small drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koinonia Foundation Chairman Named Energy Thought Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 15:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Koinonia Foundation is pleased to announce that our founder and chairman, Dr. Dale Williams, has been named a Thought Leader in Energy by Business Review West Michigan.
The past month has been a month of applications. Applications for grants, awards, and competitions.
Applications we have recently completed or are in the process of completing include:

UNESCO&#8217;s &#8220;Ten Ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last week at Koinonia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this is my last week interning at Koinonia, and I can&#8217;t believe it!
As a business student, and one with a pretty limited work history, over the last four years at Grand Valley I had formed a very one track, cynical outlook on what a company&#8217;s goals, tactics, and aspirations should be.  In my mind, a company was to be [...]]]></description>
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