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	<title>Roots &#38; Wings International &#187; Success Stories</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>Another Credit with Wings Success Story</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2012/02/another-credit-with-wings-success-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MarieRWI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five months ago, Credit with Wings disbursed its first microloans to borrowers in Pasac, Guatemala. Since then, local entrepreneurs have busily worked to grow their businesses, make their first repayments, and improve the lives of their families. Two weeks ago, I profiled one such borrower – Pascual Guarchaj Jaminez. This week, I introduce Francisco Simaj [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit with Wings Shows Early Success</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2012/01/credit-with-wings-shows-early-success-in-rwi-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MarieRWI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I introduced RWI blog readers to the Credit with Wings program, the newest addition to the programs and services offered by Roots and Wings in Guatemala. During the next few months, I am honored to introduce the faces and stories of several micro-credit borrowers through Credit with Wings. These individuals have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to Roots and Wings International</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/11/happy-birthday-to-roots-and-wings-international/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/11/happy-birthday-to-roots-and-wings-international/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jazmine Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, November 8th, Roots and Wings International marks one more year of empowering local indigenous communities through education and culturally responsive community development efforts. Over the last year, Roots and Wings has expanded its programs, donor base, and number of volunteers to spread its message to an even larger audience. More students have been awarded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading with Roots &amp; Wings</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/11/reading-with-roots-wings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Keller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Crisantemo, a book by Kevin Henkes, a little mouse starts school and finds her sense of self challenged by her classmates. Crisantemo (Chrysanthemum in English) had been proud of her uncommon name until her classmates teased her. The mouse’s parents cheer her up, telling her that her name is “absolutamente perfecto,” and Crisantemo bolsters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RWI Students: Meet Cristina Pascuala Guarchaj López</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/05/rwi-students-meet-cristina-pascuala-guarchaj-lopez/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2011/05/rwi-students-meet-cristina-pascuala-guarchaj-lopez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 20:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jazmine Rodriguez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured Student]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[our students]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cristina Pascuala Guarchaj López is a fourth grade student from Pasac and she is just one of the many gifted students that attends tutoring and computer literacy classes at the RWI Learning Center. Cristina loves to read books and play with her friends when she is not attending school, visiting the RWI Learning Center or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Testimonial: Catarina Mercedes Guarchaj</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2010/11/student-testimonial-catarina-mercedes-guarchaj/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2010/11/student-testimonial-catarina-mercedes-guarchaj/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsey Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Roots &#38; Wings International&#8217;s star scholars is a 20 year old young woman named Catarina Mercedes Guarchaj. Catarina is an athlete, a community leader, and a high school graduate&#8230;something rare enough for men in rural Guatemala, let alone for indigenous women, who have some of the lowest rates of educational attainment in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Some of Our Guatemalan Scholars</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2010/08/meet-some-of-our-guatemalan-scholars/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2010/08/meet-some-of-our-guatemalan-scholars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the help of our talented volunteer Victor, we introduce you a few of our university scholars in this short Youtube video. Currently, Roots and Wings International sponsors 25 university students in the village of Pasac, a rural part of Guatemala. Our scholars come from families that earn $2 or less per day, and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pascual Can Chox, one of our scholars</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2009/12/pascual-can-chox-one-of-our-scholars/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2009/12/pascual-can-chox-one-of-our-scholars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agusrwi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Pascual Can Chox. I&#8217;m 31 years old. I study Pedagogy and School Administration at Mariano Galvez University in Mazatenango, Suchitepequez.    The biggest difficulty I came across when I started studying at the university was a lack of financial resources, because both my parents had died&#8211;my mother of cancer and my father of alcoholism.None [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Her Own Words: A RWI Scholar&#039;s Educational Journey</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2009/10/in-her-own-words-a-rwi-scholars-educational-journey/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2009/10/in-her-own-words-a-rwi-scholars-educational-journey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>riyarwi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most directed students jump at the chance to advance educationally and, eventually, professionally. Here is what one such student, Manuela, has to say, in her own words (English and Spanish versions are provided), about the doors RWI’s scholarship program has opened for her:]]></description>
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		<title>25Computer Campaign Results!</title>
		<link>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2009/09/25computer-campaign-results/</link>
		<comments>http://rootsandwingsintl.org/blog/2009/09/25computer-campaign-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>riyarwi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The efforts of the 25Computer Campaign created quite a rouse! RWI received an impressive quantity—11 computer donations for this summer (14 computers shy of the goal of 25).]]></description>
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