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		<title>No Ceiling To Hope: Interview with Patrick Regan (XLP) &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is hope? Why is it important? Why do people keep going when all they can see around them are situations that seem completely hopeless? Patrick Regan is the founder and director of an urban-youth charity working in very challenging situations in the heart of London, called XLP. Where most organisations have given up hope in seeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/no-ceiling-to-hope-interview-with-patrick-regan-xlp-part-1/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=no-ceiling-to-hope-interview-with-patrick-regan-xlp-part-1</link>
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		<title>The Final Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered about the real impact of your sponsorship? Below is the final letter written by a formerly sponsored child from Thailand to her sponsor. Her words speak of a young woman with the world at her feet. Be encouraged! &#160; Dear Sponsor (name withheld for sponsor&#8217;s privacy), First of all, may the grace and peace of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/the-final-letter/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-final-letter</link>
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		<title>A Special Appointment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not everybody gets the chance to meet their sponsored child, and that&#8217;s why a New Zealand television network picked up on this amazing story. Esther, from India, came to visit the family that changed her life. (NB: Compassion partners with Tearfund in finding sponsors for children in New Zealand.)]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/a-special-appointment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-special-appointment</link>
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		<title>Photo Friday &#8211; Where Is Your Home?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am in the process of buying a house. For me, it is a hugely stressful process. There always seems to be just one more thing that needs to be filed, one last piece of paper to be signed or one more conversation to be had. Yet at the end of the process, I will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/photo-friday-where-is-your-home/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=photo-friday-where-is-your-home</link>
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		<title>Interview With Juan Buñay, Aged 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Juan comes from an indigenous family living in the Cañar Province, in southern Ecuador. His mum and stepdad work in agriculture, farming  peas, potatoes, corn and different sorts of beans. He comes from a Catholic background. &#160; &#160; What do you enjoy the most from all the things you do at the Compassion project? Here at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/interview-with-juan-bunay-aged-7/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=interview-with-juan-bunay-aged-7</link>
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		<title>Meningitis Vaccinations in Burkina Faso</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is little that a developing nation like Burkina Faso can do to prevent meningitis. The disease causes an annual epidemic across north-central Africa and accounts for 2% of child deaths worldwide. The nation sits within the African Meningitis Belt, an area plagued by large epidemics. In 2010, a meningitis outbreak hit Burkina Faso killing over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/meningitis-vaccinations-in-burkina-faso/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=meningitis-vaccinations-in-burkina-faso</link>
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		<title>Compassion Helps Me Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know what Compassion does for the world’s children but what has sponsoring a child done for you? Before I formed you in the womb I knew  you. Jeremiah 1:4 The child I sponsor from The Philippines amazes me all the time. I am shocked at how God is using him in my life as he is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/compassion-helps-me-too/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=compassion-helps-me-too</link>
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		<title>How Will They Know?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am privileged to have visited 22 of our 28 field offices over the past five  years. I am inspired by the love and commitment expressed by so many of our staff members and the staff and volunteers at dozens of Church Partners. &#160; A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/how-will-they-know/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-will-they-know</link>
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		<title>Photo Friday &#8211; Vibrant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vibrant (vahy-bruhnt) adjective 1. pulsating with vigour and energy 2. vigorous, energetic So often images of poverty from around the world are dark, lacking any sense of colour. Think of the last time you saw poverty depicted on your TV, it was probably in a very monotone style with dark figures and equally dark and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/photo-friday-vibrant/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=photo-friday-vibrant</link>
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		<title>The Birthday Present</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My little daughter will be one in just a month’s time and I have a problem. Her grandparents have been on the phone with the big question. “What would Alice like for her birthday?” I’m sat at home, flicking through the Mothercare catalogue, and browsing the Toys ‘r&#8217; Us website for inspiration. It’s a tough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.compassionuk.org/2012/05/the-birthday-present/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-birthday-present</link>
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