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		<title>National partnership with Ten Thousand Villages on March 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce a national partnership with Ten Thousand Villages on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 from 10am to 6pm. CNIS and Ten Thousand Villages will participate in the one-day fundraiser to celebrate International Women’s Day, and to support CNIS’ efforts in providing safe birthing practices to low-income communities in Africa. On Thursday, March [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNIS celebrates all things African</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View in French The CNIS annual African market has become a much-anticipated event of the Vancouver summer scene. On Saturday August 27, people of all ages from all over the Lower Mainland skipped the beach to come enjoy African music, arts and crafts, food and eco activities. More than 20 African nations and a dozen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bethune Round Table 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View in French The 11th Annual Bethune Round Table was hosted by CNIS and the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal for the first time on June 3-5, 2011. The meeting was an overwhelming success with participation from over twelve low and middle income nations from Africa, Eastern Europe and South-East Asia. The focus of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-Shirt Design Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help us make an ultra-cool design for a brand-new CNIS T-shirt. It has been two years since CNIS last made T-shirts, and it is time we made some new ones. We invite you to send us your ideas for a new design. You don&#8217;t need special design or drawing skills &#8211; just send us your best hand-drawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WINGS supports CNIS obstetrics work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Montreal group Women Inspiring Next GenerationS (WINGS) held a meeting on May 12, raising funds for CNIS obstetrics work in Africa. The evening was interesting and inspiring and featured addresses on fistula, a devastating complication of pregnancy and rape &#8211; too common in developing countries. Dr. Joyce Pickering spoke about the Addis Ababa fistula [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Magical Night for West Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karethe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNIS&#8217;s annual fundraiser A Night in Magical Timbuktu was held in Vancouver on May 6th to raise funds to establish West Africa&#8217;s first Injury Control Centre. One hundred guests, 50 volunteers, countless local sponsors and a dozen performers helped make the night truly magical. CNIS was honoured to have the Mali ambassador, his Excellency Mamadou Bandiougou Diawara, as our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twinning letters to Ethiopia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 23:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students in grades four to seven at  Lord Tennyson Elementary School in Vancouver, BC are the first Canadian school children to participate in the Canada/Ethiopia Twinning Project and write letters to their &#8216;twin school&#8217; in Axum, Ethiopia. Lord Tennyson is  &#8217;twinned&#8217; with Bazen Elementary School. Earlier this spring they had received a letter from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juno Award winner plays at CNIS event</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3-time Juno award winner Alpha Yaya Diallo and his band will perform at A Night in Magical Timbuktu, CNIS Vancouver gala fundraiser on May 6th. &#160; Alpha is said to be amongst &#8220;the most exciting and appealing African artists to ever hit the US&#8221;. Originally from Guinea in West Africa, Alpha is now based in Vancouver, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer of the year &#8211; Dr. Wylam Faught</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Wylam Faught, MD, FRCSC, Head of the obstetrics/gynecology department for the University of Ottawa was given the 2010 Volunteer of the Year award for his contribution as ESS instructor and for his help in establishing the obstetrics program and the surgical skills lab in Moshi, Tanzania. &#8220;The Essential Surgical Skills course and the CNIS mission/vision really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UBC Students for a Safer Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.cnis.ca/2011/01/ubc-student-event-safer-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UBC faculty and students are invited to join us for a night of great beats for a safer Africa CNIS student volunteers from the University of British Columbia are getting together to help African medical students learn Essential Surgical Skills with a fundraiser on campus. The event will take place at the Abdul Ladha Centre on [...]]]></description>
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