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		<title>Participating in the Vital Voices of the Americas Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very grateful for having the opportunity to participate at Cumbre Vital Voices Buenos Aires.
I met very interesting women, among them designers, lawyers, social entrepreneurs, women that work at multinational companies, etc.
I listened to different points of views about social responsibility, gender issues and more importantly challenges women face all over the world in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/11/05/participating-in-the-vital-voices-of-the-americas-summit/</link>
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		<title>Becoming a Leader- from Good to Great!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have come to strongly believe that opportunities and preparedness collide ever so often to create the thing people call LUCK!
In 2006, I was selected to represent Kenya on the Fortune/ State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. The experience was exactly what I needed to turn my life around and help many other women and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/10/30/becoming-a-leader-from-good-to-great/</link>
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		<title>Remodelled for Global leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A telephone call from the US Embassy in Kenya late one evening in March, 2006 began the most extraordinary - and certainly most unlikely - ‘Cinderella story’ ever recorded on the pages of the life of an emerging Kenyan woman business leader.
Following a very successful Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s summit in 2005, an idea was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/10/30/%e2%80%9cremodelled-for-global-leadership%e2%80%9d-by-eva-muraya-ceo-color-creations-limited/</link>
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		<title>Regional Conference Mobilizes the Caribbean’s Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, October 30, 2008 - More than 200 hundred women including former U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, President of The Republic of Chile, Michelle Bachelet and President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, gathered recently to develop strategies to move women in Latin America and the Caribbean forward.
“There has been a huge change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/10/30/regional-conference-mobilizes-the-caribbean%e2%80%99s-women/</link>
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		<title>Female Majority in Rwandan Parliament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We at Vital Voices are excited by a bit of little known, but ground-breaking news. Rwanda has just sworn in the world’s first women-majority parliament, as well as their first female Speaker of Parliament, Rose Mukantabana! The Vital Voices Global Leadership Network pledges its support to these women leaders to ensure that together, we can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/10/08/71/</link>
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		<title>From Vital Voices of the Americas Summit: Announcing New Partnerships, Exploring Women &#038; Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning participants traveled to the Malba, Buenos Aires’ modern museum of art where we enjoyed a tour and admired works from some of the region’s most innovative 20th century artists—including those of Frida Kahlo, a trailblazer for women in her own time.
After a brief tour, participants sat down to listen to the speeches of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/10/07/from-vital-voices-of-the-americas-summit-announcing-new-partnerships-exploring-women-innovation/</link>
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		<title>From the Vital Voices of the Americas Summit&#8230;</title>
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The Summit kicked off with a bang this morning.  About 200 leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean poured into our opening plenary session, where they were greeted by Summit Moderator and Former CNN International Anchor, Sonia Ruseler.
Throughout the course of the morning we heard from women leaders, including President Michelle Bachelet of Chile and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/10/06/from-the-vital-voices-of-the-americas-summit/</link>
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		<title>Breaking Ground: Launching the Kakenya Center for Excellence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The highlight of my trip home to Enoosaen, Kenya was the girls’ school groundbreaking event that took place on August 16, 2008. On this day I was very excited but also nervous. I was not sure if the community would turnout in big numbers for the event or if the only attendees would be from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/09/22/breaking-ground-launching-the-kakenya-center-for-excellence/</link>
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		<title>Going Home: Revisiting the Needs of Girls in Rural Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past summer I was privileged to spend two months in my rural village of Enoosaen, Kenya. The mainreason for my trip, other than to visit my family after two years away, was to implement a way forward for a girls’ school I am building in Kenya. I was so glad to be home after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/09/22/going-home-revisiting-the-needs-of-girls-in-rural-kenya/</link>
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		<title>Building Awareness of Breast Cancer in Dubai</title>
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I volunteered to be one of the female trainers who have signed up to spread awareness about the breast cancer awareness program within the Dubai Chamber of Commerce &#38; Industry; in fact, I had been waiting for such opportunity to get to learn about it myself and to promote awareness among employees, family and friends.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vitalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/09/09/building-awareness-of-breast-cancer-in-dubai/</link>
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