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		<title>Time for Politics to Take a Back Seat</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[January was a quiet month in Sierra Leone. The excitement of elections moved seamlessly into Christmas and New Year celebrations and left the country with a communal hangover. The result was an uncharacteristically quiet start to the year.  The culmination of the ‘national hangover’ was one of the worst fuel crisis’ in years lasting over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone&#8217;s vote of confidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘There will be no violence’, Ibrahim our local carpenter told us weeks ago. ‘And a run off?’ (where neither party achieves 55% majority). ‘No, no run off’ he told us confidently.  Yet the international community braced itself for the worst. Offices were closed, staff pulled back from the field and some even flown out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party Politics: Election Fever sweeps Sierra Leone but there are serious matter to be debated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Sierra Leone, Politics means a good excuse for a party. There is no space for the stuffiness usually associated with the subject. With one candidate using the slogan ‘When the music’s nice, play it twice’, you know there will be some fun. Over the past fortnight, each party has had its chance to parade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strengthening our partnership with SMT</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we signed a very exciting new partnership with our partners Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT) which will take our commitment to the organisation and its beneficiaries one step further. Since her arrival, volunteer Giulia has been working very hard supporting the work of SMT.  Early on she saw an opportunity for The Collective to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing our new Managing Director!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Our new Managing Director Alex Farrington, has joined Charlie in Freetown! Here&#8217;s what he has to say about himself; &#8216;I’ve been involved with The Collective since the very beginning, and co-founded the organisation with Charlie in 2011, but have been working in London and Birmingham for another youth charity until this summer. My background [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giulia&#8217;s first impression&#8217;s of Makeni and SMT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I thought I had mastered the most rudimentary Krio in John Obey Village I find out that the principle language here is Temne not Krio. In fact Makeni, like many of the bigger town in Sierra Leone, is made up of different tribe lines as an older gentlemen on the street was telling me today and so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing new volunteer Nick Warmoth&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) Age: 23 &#160; 2)Home Town: Caistor, Lincolnshire &#160; 3) Previous Job/Experience: Sales Assistant WHSmith and Co-Operative, Work Experience at a number of Primary and Secondary Schools, Tefl Teacher in China &#160; 4) Hobbies:  Travelling, Sport, Reading, History and Politics, Cooking &#160; 5) One interesting fact:  I cycled down Death Road in La Paz 6) Why did you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing new volunteer Giulia Tavolato</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) Age: 27 2) Home Town:  Turin, Italy 3) Previous Job/Experience Worked in business development for a management consultancy four years until December 2011.  This year I have been travelling and carrying out volunteer work through South America and now, Africa with the view to move into the third sector full time as of next year. 4) Hobbies Singing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing new volunteer Luca Marelli</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Age: 22 Home town: Milan,Italy Previous job/experience: Just obtained an MSc in Neuroscience from UCL. Part of the Teach First 2013 cohort. Hobbies: football, golf, music, film and travelling Fact about myself: I once won a signed shirt from Morten Gamst Pedersen, the Blackburn Rovers player. (I was probably the only person who entered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Against the odds: One Paralympian&#8217;s dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The London 2012 Paralympics mark The Collective’s first birthday, so naturally, we’re all keen to see the athletes do their country proud and help increase awareness of some of the inspirational stories that shows Sierra Leone as a place where people can and do flourish against all the odds. The Sierra Leonean Paralympic delegation this [...]]]></description>
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