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		<title>He aims for lasting impact</title>
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PCV Brad Wagenaar, town of Clifton, is a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer in the African west central country of Cameroon. His task is to promote rural public health. One project involved digging a new well to tap clean ground water as opposed to dirty surface water. His newest project is building a new primary school. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2010/02/02/he-aims-for-lasting-impact/</link>
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		<title>Funds needed to build elementary school in Cameroon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello,
Our  son is in the PC there and would like to get the word out about a project he needs funding for…
Here is his story:
We have just learned that Brad has a project all scoped out &#8211; to build an elementary school in Cameroon.  Please feel free to forward this e-mail to anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2010/02/02/funds-needed-to-build-elementary-school-in-cameroon/</link>
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		<title>From Buea (and Mbalmayo, Fundong, Yaounde, Nango-Eboko, Maroua) to Baghdad</title>
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Cameroon RPCVs are continuing to make a difference—in Iraq this time.  While at a PRT team leaders conference in Baghdad this month, several serving there in various positions had the chance to meet and catch up, presumably discussing where it was possible to find fufu in Iraq.  Pictured (l-r) are: 
Andy Snow (Nanga-Eboko/Yaounde [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2010/01/28/from-buea-and-mbalmayo-fundong-yaounde-nango-eboko-maroua-to-baghdadd/</link>
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		<title>Friends of Cameroon Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can read the latest FOC newsletter here&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2010/01/19/friends-of-cameroon-newsletter/</link>
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		<title>Cameroon RPCV educator wins Michigan’s &#8216;Science Teacher of the Year&#8217; award</title>
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by Tom Perkins
Ann Arbor.com
Freshmen biology students at Ypsilanti High School recently started a new lesson, and when they stepped through the door of room 114, they didn&#8217;t know what was in store. But one thing was certain &#8211; it was “Sowder time.” 
For the hour of the day that&#8217;s known as such, students receive an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2009/12/14/cameroon-rpcv-educator-wins-michigan%e2%80%99s-science-teacher-of-the-year-award/</link>
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		<title>Peace Corps volunteer from St. Charles reaches fund-raising goal for libraries in Cameroon</title>
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By: Shane Anthony
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A few months ago, we wrote about Wendy Lee’s efforts to bring thousands of books to Cameroon. Not long ago, she announced on her blog and on Twitter that she had reached her goal.
Wendy Lee with some of the children from her village in Cameroon.
Lee, a graduate of St. Charles High [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2009/11/26/peace-corps-volunteer-from-st-charles-reaches-fund-raising-goal-for-libraries-in-cameroon/</link>
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		<title>Community Granary Project &#8211; UPDATE</title>
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As of this week, US fundraising for the Community Granary project in the village of Ngan-Ha, Cameroon is complete. Generous contributors made the difference putting us close enough to our US fundraising goal to apply for a grant from Peace Corps Partnership Program&#8217;s Agriculture Fund. A grant from the fund put us over the top.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2009/11/21/community-granary-project-update/</link>
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		<title>U.S. PEACE CORPS &#8220;PRODUCT&#8221; FROM CAMEROON BECOMES U. S. SOLDIER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had the privilege of meeting a soldier in the U.S. Army, Specialist Thomas Nyenty, who had traveled from Norfolk, Va., to Silver Spring, Md., to attend a town hall meeting with U.S. Ambassador Janet Garvey.  He raised a visa question, but what attracted my attention was when he mentioned that he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2009/10/26/us-peace-corps-product-from-cameroon-becomes-u-s-soldier/</link>
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		<title>Help Rural Village Build First Granary</title>
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Elena Bussiere serves in the rural village of Ngan-Ha in Adamaoua Province where she&#8217;s an agro-forestry volunteer with the Peace Corps. She and a local Cameroonian Counterpart provide technical support for farmers and community groups as they plan and plant fruit orchards and gardens. The village requested a PCV to teach English, but didn’t get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2009/09/14/help-rural-village-build-first-granary/</link>
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		<title>Man heads to Africa with Peace Corps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man heads to Africa with Peace Corps
By Theron Brittain
The Herald-Zeitung (Taxas)
Published September 10, 2009
A New Braunfels man is packing his bags and heading halfway across the world to join a long-standing aid mission in Africa. 
Carl Tepe, 25, departs next week for Cameroon, a small country in the African Congo rainforest, as a trainee with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofcameroon.org/2009/09/10/man-heads-to-africa-with-peace-corps/</link>
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