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		<title>Another OFA family makes the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Timberjay Newspaper in the North Country of Minnesota&#8211; Cook family planning to adopt children from Congo]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=451</link>
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		<title>The Congo River featured on NPR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[River Of Life &#8211; Congo Odyssey&#8211;A National Public Radio news series by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton&#8211;&#8221;The nearly 3,000-mile Congo River is the backbone of one of Africa&#8217;s poorest and most conflict-ridden countries. It supplies food and livelihood for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the way of life along the water route in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=447</link>
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		<title>New link to DRC documentary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director/producer Dan Balluf has given permission for us to link to his full length documentary Children of Congo: From War to Witches on the OFA website.  Below is a description of this very moving and informative film. &#8220;This film documents the plight of thousands of street children living in the Democrat Republic of Congo. Over five [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=441</link>
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		<title>OFA makes the news for Chase Grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Family Adoptions recently was featured in newspaper articles both close to home and far away.  The first report is out of Clark County, Washington in The Columbian featuring an interview with Jilma Meneses, founder of Our Family Adoptions. Camas agency wins grant to help Congolese orphans This second article was printed in the Houston Chronicle out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=433</link>
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		<title>OFA thanks friends and Chase Community Giving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all of you, your family, and your friends, Our Family Adoptions (OFA) is one of the winners of the Chase Community Giving contest!  We will be awarded $20,000 thanks to the votes of nearly 1700 people around the world. These funds will be used by our organization to feed children in the Democratic Republic of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=429</link>
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		<title>OFA founder Jilma Meneses profiled on UMTV</title>
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		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=425</link>
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		<title>Follow Up to June 6 Message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adopting from DRC is not like adopting from a country with an established program.  It is extremely risky, and the odds of a failed or delayed adoption are very high.  There currently is very little in the way of systematic process, organized government offices, or dedicated personnel to process adoptions efficiently within the DRC government .  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=416</link>
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		<title>Urgent Message Regarding DRC Adoptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The logistics of completing adoptions from DRC to the United States are becoming more complicated by the minute for a variety of reasons, including practices not supported or endorsed by OFA.  The risks of a failed adoption are increasing, which may ultimately impact the ability of any organization to facilitate Congolese adoptions.  To families currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=411</link>
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		<title>Mother and son search for comfort in new land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the story linked here from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal Sentinal about a mother and son who escaped political pursecution in DRC and are trying to rebuild their lives here in the U.S.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=400</link>
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		<title>Obama Signs Anti-LRA Law! UPDATE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NGOs Call on Obama to Move Swiftly Against LRA For the latest update click here. Thousands flee, many killed as Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army steps up attacks Read the complete story at this link from the the UNHCR&#8211;The UN Refugee Agency website. Uganda: U.S Congress Passes Anti-LRA Bill Read the complete story at this link from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ourfamilyadoptions.org/?p=388</link>
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