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	<description>Using the Power of Soccer in the Fight Against HIV and AIDS</description>
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		<title>Finding Courage Through Skillz</title>
		<link>http://www.grassrootsoccer.org/2010/03/12/finding-courage-through-skillz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grassroot Soccer continues to make an impact on the lives of the youth who participate in our programs.  The following story from Skillz Coach Siyabonga &#8220;Glen&#8221; Mgwadlen, from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, captures the power of our programs to create positive change for both our Skillz Coaches and participants.

I’ll never forget our first intervention at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMF Managing Director Calls GRS &#8220;Inspirational&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, made time during a whirlwind trip to South Africa to visit  Grassroot Soccer in Soweto yesterday.  In between meetings with the Minister of Finance, business leaders, and students at the Witwatersrand University to discuss the challenges facing the South African economy, Mr. Strauss-Kahn was received at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Master Coach Titie Plaatjie Features In New Book “Eleven”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nolusindiso ‘Titie’ Plaatjie, of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, has recently been featured in the book ELEVEN: Making Lives Better, 11 Stories of Development Through Football.  Written by Steve Fleming, co-founder of GRS Implementing Partner Kick4Life, and co-edited by streetfootballworld, the book tells stories of eleven extraordinary individuals, each of whom has been transformed by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRS Coach Lunga Sidzumo Wins Mac Aids Fellowship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a young leader in the fight against HIV and AIDS, Grassroot Soccer South Africa Coach Lunga Sidzumo, from Khayelitsha, was recently awarded a prestigious MAC AIDS Leadership Initiative Fellowship. Through a year-long training and development program, the fellowship supports leaders who have made significant contributions to reducing the spread and impact of HIV and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methembe Ndlovu Wins Dartmouth College Social Justice Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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On Friday, January 29, 2010, Grassroot Soccer Co-Founder and Zimbabwe Director Methembe Ndlovu was awarded Dartmouth College’s 2010 Martin Luther King Social Justice Award.  The awards recognize members of the Dartmouth community who have contributed significantly to social justice,  peace, civil rights, education, public health, or environmental justice.  One of  the three awardees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Revolution&#8217;s Chris Tierney Spends His Off-Season With GRS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Tierney, a wide left midfielder for the New England Revolution, spent a month of his off season not vacationing with friends and family, but volunteering for HIV/AIDS outreach with Grassroot Soccer in South Africa.
Tierney is 24 and heading into his third season with the Revolution. The Massachusetts native graduated from the University of Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t care about your name, I just want to see you dance!</title>
		<link>http://www.grassrootsoccer.org/2010/02/11/i-dont-care-about-your-name-i-just-want-to-see-you-dance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from GRS Intern Eren Munir&#8217;s Blog, Eren in Africa.  Posted on 5 of February, 2010.

In a lot of ways this past week has been the culmination of my first six months in Malawi. Every single one of our sites – Area 36, Area 25, and Kawale – has recently finished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRS Wins British Airways Business Opportunity Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Grassroot Soccer was recently selected by British Airways to receive one of 100 Business Opportunities Grants.  The following is an excerpt from British Airways about the grant:
For its Business Opportunity Grant program, British Airways hand selected the winning companies primarily based on how a year&#8217;s worth of business travel and face to face meetings, along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Football For Hope Centre Opens Its Doors To Khayelitsha And The World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, December 5, a day after the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final Draw, the eyes of the global soccer community were on the opening of the world’s first Football for Hope Centre, in Khayelitsha, South Africa, the culmination of a yearlong collaboration involving the Football for Hope movement, Grassroot Soccer, the Khayelitsha Development Forum, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grassroot Soccer Gives HIV the Red Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the eyes of the global soccer community fixed on Khayelitsha, South Africa, the December 5 Football for Hope Centre opening was prime opportunity for debuting Grassroot Soccer’s exciting new programming concept and communications initiative for 2010, the Red Card campaign. On the eve of the World Cup in South Africa, the campaign endeavors to [...]]]></description>
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