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		<title>With Pain, Hope and Patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After my last post ages ago I wanted to write an entry called &#8216;The Horrors of Juba&#8217;. At the end of my last trip I tried to track down 11-year old girls who have become sex workers. And I was successful. I found a few of them in a massive compound with iron sheet barracks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/07/26/pain-hope-patience/</link>
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		<title>Dialoguing with 80 representatives of Upper Nile State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During this past week we hosted a workshop for 80 participants of Renk, Mabaan and Manyio County in Upper Nile State. 80 government officials, paramount chiefs, representatives of civil society such as women groups, youth groups, trade unions, and religious leaders gathered together in Renk to discuss the challenges and opportunities of Cross-Border Relations after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/05/26/dialoguing-with-80-representatives-of-upper-nile-state/</link>
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		<title>The most Northern place in the South</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday the team and I arrived in Renk, the most Northern city in Southern Sudan, I can&#8217;t get any &#8216;northerner&#8217;! With an extremely loud voice proclaiming &#8216;Alleluia&#8217; from a nearby church in the background, I thought I should write a little update about the progress of the work here. The last couple of days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/05/16/the-most-northern-place-in-the-south/</link>
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		<title>From Juba to Malakal to Renk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday I flew from Juba to Malakal where we spent the last couple of days preparing for our journey to and our workshop in Renk. We have been planning peace with the acting Governor (Your Excellency) of Upper Nile State!!! Tomorrow I will leave by road from Malakal to Renk (see right side of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/05/12/from-juba-to-malakal-to-renk/</link>
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		<title>Back at the Street Children Centre in Juba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before my departure tomorrow morning for Malakal, I decided to visit Cathy Groenendijk, the lady who runs the only drop-in street children centre for girls, Confident Children out of Conflict. Some of you may remember my entries from a few months ago when I first met some of the girls and heard their horrible life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/05/07/back-at-the-street-children-centre-in-juba/</link>
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		<title>On my way back&#8230; back to Sudan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realise I have not posted anything for a long time. Some of you may think I am still in Southern Sudan! No, I did make it back to England where I started a fulltime position as a Programme Development Researcher with Concordis International. It is for this job that I am now currently in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/05/04/on-my-way-back-back-to-sudan/</link>
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		<title>Hope for Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listen to the women arriving singing for the peace workshop at the farm in Rumbek. I can&#8217;t get enough of it! Women Arriving Peace Workshop Farm]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/03/07/hope-for-peace/</link>
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		<title>Peace Workshops in Makernhoum and Barpakanyi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate International Women’s Day WfWi is hosting a global campaign called Join Me on the Bridge. In South Sudan, Rumbek area, thousands of women from Makernhoum and Barpakanyi will join together on Barnam Bridge calling for an end to war and gender based violence. They will demonstrate that women can build bridges of peace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/03/04/peace-workshops-in-makernhoum-and-barpakanyi/</link>
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		<title>Martha Lek Makur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the inspiring women we met at the second Peace workshop in Barpakanyi is Martha. She was one of the leaders during the singing and the other women seemed to listen to her. She wears 8 particular marks on her head. A lot of Dinka men in the Rumbek area have circular marks around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/03/04/martha-lek-makur/</link>
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		<title>Street Children in Juba: a new hype.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am still recovering from the horrific things I have seen today. Of course you often hear stories about children who live on garbage dumps in big cities in developing countries. But to actually see it with your own eyes and hear their stories, it is heart breaking. Through one of my friends here in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jolienveldwijk.org/2010/03/04/streetchildren-in-juba-a-new-hype/</link>
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