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		<title>LDS Church Responds to Earthquake in Chile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are determining how the Church can be of most assistance in the wake of one of the most powerful earthquakes of the last century. With over half a million Latter-day Saints living in Chile, the Church has a substantial presence.  There are well over 100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormon Church Provides $4.25 Million in Aid to Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first month following Haiti&#8217;s devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided an estimated $4.25 million in assistance, with plans for ongoing relief and recovery support for the ravaged Caribbean nation.
Relief efforts have included providing food, relief supplies, shelters for displaced Haitians and medical teams to treat the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormons Remember 1985 Fast for Ethiopians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 is the 25th anniversary of an especially successful and heartwarming humanitarian aid project funded by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Leaders of the LDS Church visited a feeding camp in Ethiopia which housed 120,000 refugees.  30,000 more were trying to be admitted.  The people were hollow-eyed and starving.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonchurch.org/372/mormons-remember-1985-fast-for-ethiopians</link>
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		<title>Vegetable Program Helps Bolivians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bolivia Altiplano is a remote region some 14,000 feet above sea level, home to an impoverished population.  Residents are enjoying a more healthy, balanced diet thanks to an LDS Church-sponsored greenhouse project that is bringing spinach, carrots and other vitamin-rich produce to a region where vegetables are typically scarce.  The people of the Bolivian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonchurch.org/365/vegetable-program-helps-bolivians</link>
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		<title>LDS Humanitarian Aid in Haiti</title>
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Haitians gather outside of the LDS Centrale Ward chapel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 


Immediately after the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began mobilizing to send aid. This included a large shipment of 85,000 pounds of supplies from Miami. That shipment included emergency resources such as food, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LDS Humanitarian Aid to Storm-Stricken Cambodia and Laos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In early November, 2009, the senior couple in Laos, Elder Gary and Sister Joy Fountaine from Veyo, Utah, organized and carried out a project to take 25 tons of rice to a flooded area near the southern city of Pakse, Laos. That district was hard hit twice this year by serious floods, making it impossible for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonchurch.org/328/lds-humanitarian-aid-to-storm-stricken-cambodia-and-laos</link>
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		<title>Mormons Provide Long-Term Aid to Tsunami Victims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In December, 2004, a devastating tsunami hit southeast Asia after an earthquake in the ocean floor, killing 230,000 people in 11 countries.  Church members from around the globe jumped into action to care for the immediate needs of survivors—Saints in Hong Kong assembled hygiene kits, members from Thailand helped survivors record memories of lost loved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonchurch.org/322/mormons-provide-long-term-aid-to-tsunami-victims</link>
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		<title>Mormon Brings Hope to the Poor in Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Louis Pope, the retiring chief executive of US Synthetics, is moving to a nice beach house in Kenya.  Rather than launching out on a dream vacation or relaxing retirement, the 62-year-old Mormon instead will take a hands-on approach to directing two businesses he has created to lift the poorest people in Kenya out of abject poverty.
Pope formed Orem-based [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonchurch.org/312/mormon-brings-hope-to-the-poor-in-kenya</link>
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		<title>Making Dolls for Afghan Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A group called &#8220;Circle of Sisters,&#8221; part of the Headquarters Administration Mission in Salt Lake City, has been making dolls for Afghan children.  Some of the dolls end up in the hands of little girls living in prisons with their mothers.  Mothers can be sent to prison if their husbands send them away, and people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonchurch.org/275/making-dolls-for-afghan-children</link>
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		<title>LDS Helping Hands in Guatemala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In conjunction with Children&#8217;s Day in Guatemala (October 10, 2009), 7,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) performed acts of service.  Children, teenagers and adults of all ages participated in hundreds of projects — including many that focused on serving children, particularly those battling illnesses or other challenges.  Members [...]]]></description>
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