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	<title>Roots &#38; Wings International &#187; Culture</title>
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	<description>Giving Guatemala&#039;s indigenous children a chance to spread their wings and fly</description>
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		<title>Pasac Celebrates Día de Esquipulas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 15th, one of Guatemala&#8217;s most famous religious holidays takes place: the Día de Esquipulas. National and international pilgrims make their way to the town of Esquipulas to visit the statue of the black Christ of Esquipulas. Many pilgrims traditionally believe that the Christ had been sculpted in black to resemble the dark skin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounds of Central America</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2012/01/sounds-of-central-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MarieRWI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If music be the food of love, play on!” Shakespeare’s immortal words always bring to mind the way that music shapes our lives, reflects our emotions and connects people across the world. This New Year’s, I experienced an unexpected brush with Guatemalan culture in the form of music. The sounds of a Guatemalan marching band [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maestros Cien Puntos &#8211; Recognising Guatemala&#8217;s Top Teachers</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/12/maestros-cien-puntos-recognising-guatemalas-top-teachers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HarrietteRWI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November this year, the Maestros Cien Puntos Prize was awarded to ten Guatemalan teachers in recognition of their outstanding service to education in Guatemala in the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura. Previous winners attended the ceremony along with other education officials and sponsors of the scheme. The award assesses innovation in teaching and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas in Guatemala</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jazmine Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I get older, it seems to become more and more difficult every year to hold onto the excitement and wonder that comes as with the Christmas season.  Now that I’ve moved hundreds of miles away from home and gotten my own apartment, I’ve lost many of the Christmas traditions of my past. Although, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same Same But Different</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/12/same-same-but-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CassandraRWI</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/?p=1724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Yes! Same same but different!” If you’ve ever spent time in South East Asia you’ll be familiar with this paradoxical phrase. Everything here is same same but different: the bus ticket that takes you to a destination 100kms away from the place you thought you were heading; the souvenir that’s totally different from the one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living a Pura Vida</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/12/living-a-pura-vida/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MarieRWI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I left my home country, I was 19 years old. For me, 19 years seemed an eternity to wait before finally experiencing the thrill of international travel. Ever since childhood, the idea of other countries, cultures, and languages completely fascinated me. I dreamt of the day when I would experience a foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice for Giovanni</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/11/choice-for-giovanni/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HarrietteRWI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The five of us piled into the tatty jeep with our drenched rucksacks piled on top of us and we sat soaked to the bone all the way to the hostel. We had turned up at one of the more common hostels in the area only to find out that they had overbooked, and after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender Inequality in Guatemala</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/11/gender-inequality-in-guatemala/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/11/gender-inequality-in-guatemala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HarrietteRWI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, I wrote about the recently released HDI report and briefly touched upon some of the figures regarding education in Guatemala, which showed that only 15.6% of Guatemala’s female population are educated to at least secondary school level, compared to 21% of males. These figures have played on my mind ever since. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guatemala&#8217;s World Heritage</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/11/guatemalas-world-heritage/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/11/guatemalas-world-heritage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MarieRWI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[International travel has always been one of the most inspirational and important parts of my life as a student, and now as a professional in international development. Miriam Beard, the daughter of an American suffragette, once said that &#8220;travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: El Perro del Hortelano</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/10/movie-review-el-perro-del-hortelano/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/10/movie-review-el-perro-del-hortelano/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jazmine Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2TQRBB4WQQ9F Most people’s view of indigenous life occurs on the other side of a camera or computer screen. When filmmakers and reporters are lucky enough to get a brief glimpse of indigenous communities, they have to tell a story from the outsider’s perspective. Most of the time our filter of developed world only shows us [...]]]></description>
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