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	<description>Daraja means bridge, and you are Daraja</description>
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		<title>Project Kibuku Maji</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.”
Growing up in California, I have always valued water and thought I conserved it… thought.

On the Laikipia Plateau, the home location of Daraja Academy, water is a life or death issue. There are several rivers and creeks that run through the area which originate high on Mt. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/02/25/daraja-academy-%e2%80%93-the-water-issue/</link>
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		<title>Fund-A-Need Benefit on March 26th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click on the image to see a larger version.
To RSVP for the event, send an email to info@daraja-academy.org &#8211; Please include your name, number of attendees, and contact information. We look forward to seeing you there as we work together to fund a new water project at the Daraja campus!

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		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/02/24/fund-a-need-benefit-on-march-26th/</link>
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		<title>Good advice from our students</title>
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The selection of  26 new Daraja girls is done! The new students will arrive on campus on February 26th. We are all extremely excited about this new step and we have asked the current students to give a piece of advice for their future classmates. Here are three letters that could be useful for you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/02/22/good-advices-from-our-students/</link>
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		<title>3-0 for Daraja!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We promised to update you about the first official football game played by Daraja, so here we go! The match has been postponed due to unfortunate circumstances; some students from the school we had to play against had to go to a funeral on that day, while others were simply not at school for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/02/22/3-0-for-daraja/</link>
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		<title>New Layout</title>
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I&#8217;m pleased to introduce the new layout for the Official Blog of the Daraja Academy! Sorry for the down time and inconvenience&#8230; We lost some of the photos in the process but this should be fixed in the next few days.
As always, you can use our secure Paypal button in the side bar on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/02/22/new-layout/</link>
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		<title>Last Day of Interviews &#8211; 2 Spots Remain</title>
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It has been A HARD student selection process. Quite literally, over the past 2+ weeks a group of at least 4 Daraja Academy administrators (director of operations Peter Wathitu, vice principal Victoria, Jenni and I) along with a handful of volunteers, have conducted well over 100 student interviews. We have logged in almost 2,000 kms driving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/02/15/last-day-of-interviews-2-spots-remain-3/</link>
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		<title>DARAJA FOOTBALL TEAM</title>
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Daraja Academy now has an official football team (Kenyans refer to soccer as “football”)! Martin Husum Mikkelsen, a famous football trainer in his hometown Viborg (Denmark), agreed to volunteer at Daraja during his winter break. He has created a team of Daraja students interested in playing football and managed to build a strong squad for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/02/04/daraja-football-team/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Student Selection&#8221; through Colin&#8217;s eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard a quote while raising awareness for Daraja Academy last September that has stuck with me. Ted Church, a Daraja supporter from Boulder, Colorado remarked in an off hand way that, “all roads lead to Daraja.” The people that are caught by the inertia of this small girls school in central Kenya are nothing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/02/02/student-selection-through-colins-eyes-3/</link>
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		<title>STORIES FROM THE STUDENTS ON HOLIDAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The students being back on Campus, Teacher Catherine took the chance to do a composition exercice in her English class, asking the girls to write about the most memorable day of their time at home. Here are a few extracts that they agreed to share with us!



“(…)On our way, we found a group of boys. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/01/27/stories-from-the-students-on-holiday/</link>
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		<title>Highlights from the 1st Ten Days of 2010</title>
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They returned in one mad rush of excitement, hugs and cheer. One year older, a little bit wiser and beating the odds, Daraja Academy’s 1st class of girls returned to the campus as FORM 2’s (sophomores).
Highlights:
* Daraja Academy held it’s first democratic election. Girls ran for the positions of Dining Hall Prefect, Dorm Prefect, Sports [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daraja-academy.org/blog/2010/01/25/highlights-from-the-1st-ten-days-of-2010-2/</link>
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