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		<title>Office visit from Uganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 21:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNIS had a pleasant surprise visit to our Vancouver office from some of our African partners, when four Ugandan doctors attended the Conference on Surgery and Anesthesia in Uganda at the University of British Columbia on April 2, 2011. Dr. Mary Margaret Ajiko, a general surgeon from the Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, was one of [...]]]></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>
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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>CNIS first surgical skills course in Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 22:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It is over a year since the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti occurred and the country is continuing its slow recovery. All segments of Haitian society are involved in this recovery, including the medical schools. These schools lost both facilities and human resources, students and faculty being among the lives lost. With both venues and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twinning letters to Ethiopia</title>
		<link>http://www.cnis.ca/2011/05/our-first-twinning-letters-to-ethiopia/</link>
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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>Rotary support for CNIS work in Uganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNIS would like to thank the Carrasco family and the Rotary Club of White Rock for their generous donation of $8,000 towards CNIS work in East Africa, particularly Uganda. The donation was made possible by a special gift from Val and Milton Carrasco of Richmond, British Columbia. Originally from Uganda, Val and Milton told the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juno Award winner plays at CNIS event</title>
		<link>http://www.cnis.ca/2011/03/juno-award-winner-will-play-at-cnis-may-6th-event/</link>
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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>An Evening for International Surgery</title>
		<link>http://www.cnis.ca/2010/07/an-evening-for-international-surgery-oct-21/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNIS and uOSSC invite people in the Ottawa area interested in supporting our work to An Evening for International Surgery. Location: The brand new University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre Date and Time: October 21, 2010 from 7 pm &#8211; 9.30 pm. RSVP to office@cnis.ca View Invitation: English French This is CNIS&#8217; first public event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obstetrics Courses held in Uganda</title>
		<link>http://www.cnis.ca/2010/07/upcoming-obstetrics-courses-in-uganda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karethe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNIS Obstetrical Associate Dr. Lorraine Woolford taught two Structured Operative Obstetrics Instructors and Providers Courses in Uganda this summer. This was Dr. Woolford&#8217;s second trip to Africa this year, as she also taught the course in Africa earlier this spring. As all CNIS volunteer instructors, she brought two large bags with teaching equipment, simulators, models and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HASSEN APPOINTED PRESIDENT</title>
		<link>http://www.cnis.ca/2010/05/phil-hassen-appointed-cnis-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 03:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karethe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Ronald Lett has been President of CNIS since its inception in 1995, in which time the organization has grown substantially due to the hard work of Ron, board members, volunteers and staff.  In 2007 Ron decided to move to Ethiopia to be closer to the work at hand. The programs in Africa are progressing [...]]]></description>
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