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	<description>Supporting Aids orphans in Zambia - Giving Sanctuary &#38; Hope with Love Compassion &#38; Respect</description>
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		<title>CONTESA starts Friends of CONTESA membership scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/04/20/contesa-starts-friends-of-contesa-membership-scheme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since starting work in 2005 CONTESA has managed to adhere to our pledge that 100% of donations will go to Zambia directly for the benefit of the orphans and vulnerable children in the projects that CONTESA supports. We are extremely proud to have kept this promise and it is important to us to continue to do so. However, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CONTESA Vocational and Skills Training Centre Officially Opened</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The official opening of the CONTESA Vocational and Skills Training Centre by the District Commissioner  and John Crowle  was conducted on Friday July 13th 2012, led by Kabwe Church Family Mission Board, with other dignitaries, local councillor (representing the Mayor), Police Chief, representatives of the Ministry of Education and TEVETA and CONTESA trustees .  There were a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orphan Gift recites a poem reflective of an orphans life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Gift is a 9 year old  Grade 3 pupil at Kabwe Futures Community School . Gift recited this poem in (Bemba) while the CONTESA Trustees were visiting their projects at Kabwe Church Family Mission, Zambia. The poem was translated from Bemba by Ms Rahabe Phiri, one of the CONTESA sponsored project managers in Kabwe.  Rahabe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The orphans eyes tell their story</title>
		<link>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/04/12/the-orphans-eyes-tell-their-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s photo is of a small group of young AIDS orphans and disadvantaged children their haunting eyes tell you just how tough life is for them. CONTESA funds  the daily  feeding (breakfast and lunch) of 900+ orphans and disadvantaged children at Kabwe and funds 3 other feeding programmes,  one at  Chilanga, and two in Lusaka (one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CONTESA &#8211; Supporter newsletter printed by CardsMadeEasy.</title>
		<link>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/04/11/contesa-supporter-newsletter-printed-by-cardsmadeeasy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/04/11/contesa-supporter-newsletter-printed-by-cardsmadeeasy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONTESA would like to thank CardsMadeEasy, the online business card and printing company for offering to print our Newsletters for us. It is a much needed form of assistance to us, as the newsletters are an important part of communicating our work to the supporters of CONTESA. CardsMadeEasy offer free printing to charities and non-profit organisations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard hot backbreaking work, no it&#8217;s not a witches cauldron but &#8216;Angels&#8217; cooking for AIDS orphans</title>
		<link>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/03/31/hard-hot-backbreaking-work-no-its-not-a-witches-cauldron-but-angels-cooking-for-aids-orphans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONTESA the UK registered charity supports AIDS orphans and disadvantaged children in Zambia, Africa.  Fancy an African adventure cooking holiday? Why not join our team in Kabwe for a few days! The Easter photo is a taken at Kabwe where CONTESA funds the daily  feeding (breakfast and lunch) of 900+ orphans and disadvantaged children. CONTESA funds 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Easter eggs for these orphans! A basic meal is their joy.</title>
		<link>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/03/29/no-easter-eggs-for-those-orphans-a-basic-meal-is-their-joy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; As Easter is upon us, many of our children and grandchildren will be enjoying playing and celebrating with their families. They will be going on Easter egg hunts and receiving Easter eggs but please spare a thought for those less fortunate. The AIDS orphans and disadvantaged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxen powered delivery of firewood at Kabwe for cooking nshima</title>
		<link>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/03/26/oxen-powered-delivery-of-firewood-at-kabwe-for-cooking-nshima/</link>
		<comments>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/03/26/oxen-powered-delivery-of-firewood-at-kabwe-for-cooking-nshima/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder that in Zambia the old fashioned modes of transportation are still used. At the Kabwe Centre a delivery of firewood powered by oxen, is watched by a young boy, the firewood will be used for the outdoor cooking of nshima in large cooking pots. Making nshima for hundreds of children is  a tough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you sponsor Rose, who is severely disabled?</title>
		<link>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/03/25/can-you-sponsor-rose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/03/25/can-you-sponsor-rose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Today&#8217;s photo and story features Rose, a young girl, aged 13,  who is a single orphan and is severely mentally and physically handicapped. Rose also suffers from epilepsy. Rose despite being only 13 has experieneced a very tough and challenging life, she started epilepsy as a baby and then at age 3 Rose fell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you seen school classrooms this crowded?</title>
		<link>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/03/21/have-you-seen-school-classrooms-this-crowded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.contesacharity.org/2013/03/21/have-you-seen-school-classrooms-this-crowded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The photos today are of a grade 4 class at Kabwe Family Futures Community School.  CONTESA is under constant pressure as more and more orphans are applying to our programmes in Kabwe. Sadly  for the first time ever we had to turn away some orphans &#38; disadvantaged children in Kabwe due to lack of space, [...]]]></description>
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