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		<title>16 Days: Achieving change in Afghanistan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the 16 Days of Activism campaign gets underway, Jennifer McCarthy reflects on the slow but steady changes our partners are helping to bring about in Herat Province. I have just visited our partners in Herat province.  I have returned &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cafod.org.uk/2011/12/02/16-days-achieving-change-in-afghanistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.cafod.org.uk&#038;blog=412709&#038;post=8813&#038;subd=cafod&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flowers of prosperity: Supporting Saffron growers in Herat province</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer McCarthy is CAFOD&#8217;s Programme Officer for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here she reflects on her time in Herat, a province in western Afghanistan, where we&#8217;re supporting small businesses in rural areas. It was the haunting tune from the rabab that lured &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cafod.org.uk/2011/08/17/flowers-of-prosperity-supporting-saffron-growers-in-herat-province/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.cafod.org.uk&#038;blog=412709&#038;post=8262&#038;subd=cafod&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t drop the ball &#8211; Postcard from Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work in Ghoryan and Pashtun Zarghon districts, Afghanistan where unemployment and poverty are acute. Living conditions here are poor – many people’s houses are made of mud, leaving them vulnerable to environmental disasters. People in Pashtun Zarghon district also &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cafod.org.uk/2011/07/28/8212/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.cafod.org.uk&#038;blog=412709&#038;post=8212&#038;subd=cafod&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: Is violence being rewarded?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donate to CAFOD&#8217;s work &#62;&#62; Sughara was standing on the steps of her small mud house, which was framed by green fields and towering mountain peaks in Ghor province in Afghanistan. As we approached, I noticed that she was busily &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cafod.org.uk/2010/07/21/afghanistan-is-violence-being-rewarded/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.cafod.org.uk&#038;blog=412709&#038;post=6528&#038;subd=cafod&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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