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		<title>Happy New Year (yes, it&#8217;s still a new year), 2011!</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2011/01/30/happy-new-year-yes-its-still-a-new-year-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know we haven&#8217;t posted anything in a while, but we are still here.  We are anxiously awaiting photos and a report from PLE&#8217;s 4th Annual Chupaca Children&#8217;s Christmas fiesta, sponsored in large part by our donors. MUCHAS GRACIAS!
In November and December 2010, Castle High&#8217;s Spanish and French classes raised a staggering $425 for us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navidad Novedades (Christmas News) 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends of PeruDonations,                                             Christmas 2009
We have had quite an interesting year.  Despite only one benefit concert and diminished online sales, we have continued our commitment to our affiliate Peru Luz de Esperanza in Peru and “our boys,” Presli and Merardo.  After six frustrating months of lost contact, Lisa went on a mission to Peru [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelblog Number 11.2.2K9.1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today´s tasks are  to find an allen wrench for Merardo´s bike, change hostels and get some groceries and cash.
The first order of business was to change hostels.  I remembered seeing one online that fronts the Parque Tupac Amaru, but nobody, including the police guard at the bank, could tell me where one was.  I walked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelblog Number 11.1.2K9.1</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2009/11/02/travelblog-number-11-1-2k9-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got up at about 10 AM, still on Hawaii time and travel-weary.  I got some food in the street and grabbed a combi to Chupaca.  Armed with my iPod photos, an old address for Ely and the memory of a photo she had sent me of Presli´s mom´s house, I set out to look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelblog Number 10.31.2K9.1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bus to Huancayo day.  Not much to tell.   A pretty uneventful day except for nearly missing the bus!  Traveler´s note: when trying to navigate central Lima on a Saturday, plan to leave at least an extra 20 minutes earlier to account for traffic.  Even for Lima it was pretty bad.  Anyway, the bus was held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelblog Number 10.30.2K9.1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[¨Minka Day¨:  I took a ¨combi¨ (a converted passenger van with the routes painted on the windows and sides, with a guy who hangs out the open side door shouting their destinations, and who later collects your money before you get off) to Minka.  Minka is a humongous mercantile Nirvana in the province of Callao in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelblog Number 10.29.2K9.1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a bumpy last few minutes on the flight to Dallas, it just made 7 AM.  I´m at the gate waiting for flight #2.  And the sun.  It´s pitch black outside and a little rainy.  Weird.
I just scarfed a bag of granola trail mix and Diet Pepsi from the newsstand (the clerk was from Tonga).  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelblog Number 10.28.2K9.1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it´s 7:22 PM.  I´ve been in the air just about 2 hours and I have just accepted the fact that I don´t want to be doing this.  Here is the progress of my mission so far:
Due to the requisite comedy of errors, beginning with me literally staying up all night packing according to a very carefully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Finding Presli&#8221; v.09</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2009/10/24/finding-presli-v-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Dear Friends, Donors, and Volunteers.










Exciting news!  Lisa is making a last-minute trip on October 28 (in FOUR DAYS) to locate Presli in a small rural village outside Huancayo, Peru.  Lisa is going there to set up financial assistance for him and arrange for his transportation back to the USA for his surgeries.  Lisa will be in Huancayo anywhere from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you hear?</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2009/03/21/did-you-hear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Shortest and sweetest blog ever!</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2009/03/11/shortest-and-sweetest-blog-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our concert planning is in full motion.  Donations of goods and services are still being accepted for our door prize/raffle/silent auction.  Pre-sale tickets available at our website or at www.the808scenezine.com for $8 ($10 at the door).
Please share the following poster:    (The entire poster album is here, should you feel like re-posting this message or printing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What have we been up to?</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2009/02/22/what-have-we-been-up-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, first of all, we&#8217;d like to say Hauoli Makahiki Hou, Kung Hee Fat Choy, Feliz Ano Nuevo, and Joyeux Noelle to all our friends around the world.  We hope you are all well and that 2009 is smiling on you.
This year has started out with a bang.  Our online sales are still moving along.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer&#8217;s over and so much to tell</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2008/08/04/summers-over-and-so-much-to-tell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But, I&#8217;ll stick to the highlights.
1 &#8211; &#8220;Promises: A Party With A Purpose,&#8221; our third benefit rock concert on March 29 of this year was a big hit!   We had four rock/ska bands &#8211; Awry By Design, Breaking The Innocent, Busekrus and Pimpbot (for the third time!).   We were also proud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROMISES and other news (continued from home page)</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2008/03/10/promises-and-other-news-continued-from-home-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ITEMS:  March 2008 &#8211; PROMISES: A Party with a Purpose &#8211; The long-awaited news has arrived &#8211; We are hosting another concert at Don Ho&#8217;s, Saturday, March 29.  This show promises to be as happening as the last, with some of our most dedicated supporters, Pimpbot, Büsekrüs and Awry By Design entertaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year-End Letter  2006</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2007/12/28/year-end-letter-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mahalo and Gracias to our wonderful supporters!  Since our creation one year ago, PeruDonations Corporation has been blessed to fund three projects.  We have raised $3158 through benefit concerts, jewelry and CD sales, and monetary gifts from donors like you.  All proceeds have been used to send goods and provide for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YIKES!!  Has it been over a month since &#8220;One Life at a Time&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Doctor&#8217;s report</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2007/08/21/doctors-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finally reached Ely.  I could not get a hold of her from Wednesday until Sunday.  We were desperate for news both about Presli and about the earthquake.
  When I did finally get through, she told me that Presli was at the hospital and had slept through the whole thing! Meanwhile, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surgery at last!</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2007/08/16/surgery-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*PRESLI GOT SURGERY!!
Thanks to the generous donation of time and talents of the Rotaplast International medical team, Presli got his first intervention today in LaOroya!!
Presli arrived at the clinic in La Oroya, accompanied by Ely, the social worker and the director of the orphanage. What an entourage.  We did not know that the director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email from the director of Rotaplast</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2007/08/09/email-from-the-director-of-rotaplast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick note to add to yesterday&#8217;s post (the entry below this one).
I received this email from Dr. Capozzi yesterday afternoon:

Hello,
I just got word that Presli was seen in the clinic and is the first  surgical case scheduled. Exactly what they decided to do I do not know but rest  assured if totally successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presli meets the doctors!</title>
		<link>http://perudonations.org/blog/2007/08/08/presli-meets-the-doctors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are ecstatic to announce that at the moment that I am writing this, Presli has arrived at the clinic in La Oroya, Peru, and is in the process of getting registered and settled in for his week&#8217;s stay.
I have spoken with Ely just a few minutes ago and all is well.  She will [...]]]></description>
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