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		<title>Iraqi Orphans, Part One: 800,000 Forgotten Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Lundahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I feel blessed waking up every day knowing that my parents are still alive,” – EPIC intern Farah Rasool, who lived in the heart of Baghdad with her family until late 2006. Imagine waking up one day and finding yourself without a family. As adults living in the United States this is a horrific thought. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Others are Helping Iraq: ACDI/VOCA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayhan Üçok</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While EPIC focuses on its domestic campaign to Put Iraq Back On the Agenda, other US-based organizations continue to do impressive fieldwork in Iraq. This week, EPIC spotlights an economic development organization that fosters broad-based economic growth, raises living standards and creates vibrant communities in low-income countries and emerging democracies: ACDI/VOCA. ACDI/VOCA has worked in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answering a Fourth Grader&#8217;s Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley Harkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Lesley Harkins and I’m the new EPIC Management intern!  As a rising senior at Boston University, I’m very excited to explore my interests in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this summer with the EPIC team. After growing up in the DC area after 9/11, I became aware of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In Their Shoes&#8221;: Running for Iraqi Orphans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Lundahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.epic-usa.org/?p=6695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 4th, EPIC’s partner organization, the Sponsor Iraqi Children Foundation, held its very first 5-kilometer run, in Fairfax, Virginia, entitled “In Their Shoes.” The run raised an incredible amount of money &#8211; over $30,000 &#8211; for orphans and street kids in Iraq. The 160+ participants included Iraqi-Americans, the former Iraq ambassador to the US, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Others are Helping Iraq: Mercy Corps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayhan Üçok</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As EPIC moves forward with our advocacy campaign to Put Iraq Back on the Agenda, we wanted to highlight some of the other important projects being implemented in and for Iraq by various US-based organizations. Each week, EPIC will spotlight one organization as well as their programs, initiatives and advocacy work related to Iraq. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For USAID chief, the FY2014 budget is a matter of life and death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik K. Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is on Capitol Hill to deliver testimony on the international development priorities of President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed FY2014 budget. The total amount that his agency, USAID, and the US State Department and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) combined spend annually on foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq Still Matters, Part Four: Displaced Iraqis Want To Go Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farah Rasool</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 1, 2006 was a chilly Wednesday in Baghdad. A family friend was driving me to the airport, ending the two hardest months of my life. I was silent for the duration of the car ride, thinking about the fact that this could easily be the last time I would be on, and see, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Earth Day: Celebrating Iraq&#8217;s Natural Wonders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Lundahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main reasons I decided to intern at EPIC was the emphasis the organization puts on environmental education in Iraq. “What is there to learn about preserving the desert?” I casually thought, curious to learn more. It turns out that there is a lot more than desert in Iraq, from the mountains in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering the Fall of Baghdad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik K. Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you remember the moment like it was yesterday. For me, I was in the DC studios of FoxNews preparing to face off with one of the war&#8217;s cheerleaders. On screen was live footage from Baghdad&#8217;s Firdos Square. Beginning with Kadhem Sharif and other Iraqis wielding sledgehammers, an effort was underway to pull down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Cities: Events in DC to Mark the Fall of Baghdad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Lundahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, April 9, marks the 10th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad after the US invasion. Within the last decade, the international affairs community has dissected, discussed, and discerned lessons from the War in Iraq. With the anniversary of the early days of the war upon us, Washington is abuzz with events and panels to [...]]]></description>
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