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		<title>Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two years, Global Hope has exhausted itself forming an organization that offers service to the underserved.  Planning events, recruiting volunteers, raising money and organizing service trips have been our primary focus. In our early stages, we repaired lives by replacing things: railings, fences, windows and walls, carports, sheds, roofs and entire homes.  Now, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=236&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Your names and faces are engraved in our hearts&#8221; &#8212; Laura Patterson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I probably won’t see you before you leave town and I wanted to give you some idea of just what you, everyone else and Global Hope has done for us (not to mention Davida, wonderful Davida!).  I have never been comfortable around people.  I write pretty well but I tend to hang my head and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=274&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give, Live, Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the Global Hope volunteers have returned safe and sound; despite the crippling ice storms that blew through the middle of the country.  We thank all of you for your contributions that ranged from ace roofing skills to helping with laundry at the firehouse and everything in between.  Because of your big hearts, can-do attitudes and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=271&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Shoot the Messenger!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Hope has mainly recruited volunteers to help with the physical rebuilding of homes in New Orleans.  We have focused on forming teams that would contribute to the area by offering skills in various types of labor.  Due to our success, Global Hope has developed a reputation for getting things done and continues to come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=297&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Perkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our dedicated volunteers gave their time and resources to the people of New Orleans, the people of New Orleans opened their hearts back to us.  Chuck Perkins, poet and musician, helped Naureen create a special evening on our last night &#8212; delivering the message of Katrina to those that have not lived it.  Speaking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=269&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Julia&#8217;s Creole Kitchen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mother of six, Julia Adams is no stranger to giving. She has spent much of her life forming a family and raising a church. Two years prior to Katrina, she and her neighbors spent their weekends delivering boxed sandwiches and cakes to the homeless under bridges. Although Hurricane Katrina left Reverend and Julia Adams [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=241&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light At the End of the Tunnel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deloris lives in a small shotgun house in the Holy Cross neighborhood of the Lower 9th Ward.  Like many folks, she paid into her insurance premiums for 25 years, but was unprepared for the sheer volume of destruction that she encountered after Hurricane Katrina.  She was even more unprepared when she discovered, like many homeowners [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=213&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humanity Among the Rubble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Katrina, the owner of this house on St. Claude has been relocated to another state.  Earlier in January, Dickie met with him and they spoke about their concerns regarding the condition of his home.  The home looked abandoned, and as a result, became a target for squatters and thieves in the area.  Dickie, our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=157&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Is Also in the Little Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes even the smallest things add up and can improve the day to day living in someone&#8217;s life.  Due to the recent health problems that are slowing Reverend Adams down, he and his wife Julia have had trouble keeping up with their family home.  Global Hope was there to lend a helping hand. Thanks to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=186&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self Worth Is Built By Belief</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another important part of Global Hope&#8217;s effort is to continue to go out into the community and build bridges with others.  Naureen, Anna and Jen met with Caroline Heldman, who is the director of the New Orleans Women&#8217;s Shelter in the Lower 9th Ward.  Caroline&#8217;s primary focus is to empower homeless/battered women through education so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalhopenow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6086981&amp;post=144&amp;subd=globalhopenow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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