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		<title>Importance of Literacy</title>
		<link>http://www.thepubols.com/2010/06/02/importance-of-literacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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In this video, Ibrahim, a literacy teacher at the Bredgin refugee camp in eastern Chad, talks about the importance of learning to read and write Massalit.
The Massalit are refugees from the DarFur region of Sudan.  It is a cross-boarder community, so some also have permanent residence in Chad. An SIL team has been assigned to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected Preparation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 08:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Story by Zeke du Plessis
“The reason that I’m back in Africa is because I left a piece of my heart here and [now] I’m here to get it back,” Eunice Kua said with a glint in her eye. Not only is Eunice back in Africa, she is in a remote village in eastern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A song for Angela</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 06:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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This video is of a song that Jimiye, a Massalit literacy teacher from the Treguine refugee camp in eastern Chad, composed for and about Angela.  Angela leads the SIL team that is helping the Massalit living in eastern Chad with their literacy program.
Other Posts You Might Like:Importance of Literacy 

In this video, Ibrahim, a literacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riding with a sheep</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 13:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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On January 24 we attended a literacy celebration at the Bredjin refugee camp in eastern Chad.  The community gave the SIL team we were visiting a sheep to take home as a thank you gift.  Jennie and I, along with the other human passengers, shared the back of the truck with that sheep on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Literacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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The Masalite already have a written language and a beginning reading primer.  The SIL team is providing the community with linguistic consultation and helping to train the literacy teachers.  The local communities are taking the lead in coordinating and conducting the actual literacy classes.
At the Bredjing and Treguine refugee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multinational teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Zeke du Plessis
The team that is working with the Masalite on the literacy program is quite multicultural&#8211;German (Angela), Chinese Malaysian (Eunice), and South African (Marthinus).  An Australian couple also works with this team, but they are away right now.
Together with Jennie, Zeke and I, five nationalities were present and South African was in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy rocks, heavy burdens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Zeke du Plessis
The name of the town we&#8217;re in is Hadjer Hadid&#8211;named after these heavy iron rocks that you see all over.  I picked up a small rock to keep.  I nearly lost it when Zeke found it in my camera bag and almost chucked it.  He asked me about it, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living and dying in the Sahel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Dehydration has been a major issue for us ever since we came into the Sahel.  This is a transition area between tropical areas in the south and the great Sahara Desert to the north.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever been in a place this dry.  Three liters of water today&#8230;still getting dehydrated.  It&#8217;s not even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our tax dollars at work</title>
		<link>http://www.thepubols.com/2010/01/23/our-tax-dollars-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Zeke du Plessis
We left N&#8217;Djamena, the capital of Tchad, after a brief stay to head to the far eastern part of the country near to the Sudanese boarder.  The area we are visiting has several refugee camps for people who have fled from the DarFur region of Sudan.  We&#8217;ll be visiting two of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A training approach</title>
		<link>http://www.thepubols.com/2010/01/20/a-training-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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We went by car from Maroua, Cameroon to N&#8217;Djamena, Tchad.  With almost 1 million people this is the capital and largest city in Tchad.  We&#8217;re staying on the SIL Tchad compound for a couple of nights until we leave to go further east in Tchad.  Two workshops were in session today&#8211;a literacy workshop and a [...]]]></description>
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