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	<description>Peace Corps – exploring sustainable alternatives.</description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas to Everyone, Most Especially Willow!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After finishing our Christmas Fufu and Goat, I gave Stephanie a small globe so she could brush up on her Geography. She shows us where Ghana is, and where her friend Willow lives. Merry Christmas and enjoy!]]></description>
		<link>http://scottdavisanderson.com/blog/peace-corps/merry-christmas-to-everyone-most-especially-willow/</link>
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		<title>Bottle Cap Earrings at the Volta School for the Deaf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lavoe, from the Volta School for the Deaf demonstrates making bottle cap earrings. A Peace Corps Volunteer asked for a custom earring using bottle caps from her home state of Wisconsin&#8230; Lavoe is happy to oblige.]]></description>
		<link>http://scottdavisanderson.com/blog/peace-corps/bottle-cap-earrings-at-the-volta-school-for-the-deaf/</link>
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		<title>A Message to Opie McGuire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opie McGuire is a hero to many. He served alongside Peace Corps Volunteers in Uganda and most recently in Ghana. As a volunteer he saved a young girls life. The details are long, painful and best told by Opie himself, but this video depicts the co-founders of Our Talking Hands, Scott and Promise presenting this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scottdavisanderson.com/blog/peace-corps/a-message-to-opie-mcguire/</link>
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		<title>Volta Deaf Students Create Batik Stamps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The capacity to make beautiful wooden batik stamps has been built, and now the students have begun making these stamps to order for a number of interested customers. A big thanks goes out to Henning Lemcke, a German volunteer who came to the school for a visit and demonstrated the technique to myself and some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scottdavisanderson.com/blog/peace-corps/volta-deaf-students-create-batik-stamps/</link>
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		<title>Demonstrating the Kente Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following video shows three of my students from the Vocational Department at the Volta School for the Deaf as they demonstrate processes associated with Kente Weaving. 1. Bless winds thread on to a shuttle. 2. Tetteh prepares the warp. 3. Forgive demonstrates the weaving process.]]></description>
		<link>http://scottdavisanderson.com/blog/peace-corps/demonstrating-the-kente-process/</link>
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		<title>Warming up with a Webcam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Hohoe, Ghana)  The following video documents students from the Volta School for the Deaf using a webcam for the first time.  The students from the vocational department were practicing video conferencing in preparation for using their newly installed internet at the school.  The students are now able to broadcast their talents to the rest of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scottdavisanderson.com/blog/peace-corps/warming-up-with-a-webcam/</link>
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		<title>Home and Back and Back to Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a fantastic time visiting home between August 5th and September 15th.  I took a 30 day leave from Peace Corps and tacked on another 10 days of vacation to spend some time with friends and family in the U.S.  I have extended my service in Ghana with the Peace Corps for another year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scottdavisanderson.com/blog/peace-corps/home-and-back-and-back-to-home/</link>
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		<title>Peace Corps Ghana &#8211; extra room in your luggage?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Preperations are under way to receive 70 new volunteers and welcome them for the next 2+ years of their lives.  The new batch of volunteers will be arriving in Ghana in June 2011.  Most of the future Peace Corps Volunteers who will serve in Ghana have been sent their invitiations, and are now turning their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scottdavisanderson.com/blog/peace-corps/peace-corps-ghana-for-those-with-some-extra-room/</link>
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		<title>Computers, Buckeye Kente, and Bottle Cap Earrings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My camera is back, thanks to an assist from my mother.  I can now begin documenting the work we have done over the past few months, as much progress has been made here at the Volta School for the Deaf.  We have our new computer lab up and running, as well as 6 active Kente [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scottdavisanderson.com/blog/peace-corps/computers-buckeye-kente-and-bottle-cap-earrings/</link>
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		<title>So quickly the time has passed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother and Anne have come and gone. I had an amazing time sharing a bit of my life here in Ghana, as well as traveling and discovering new places along the 3 week journey. As we traveled around the country, we poured energy and life into fellow Peace Corps projects. I really missed my [...]]]></description>
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