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		<title>A Note From Piya Radia: YG Dinner Series</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/07/28/a-note-from-piya-radia-yg-dinner-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 23, 2010, I had the pleasure of having dinner with Laura Gardner of Bridging Refugee Youth &#38; Children&#8217;s Services. It wasn’t an ordinary dinner though- it was a dinner held as part of the Young Generation (YG) Dinner Series.  As such, it brought together college students and young professionals to share dinner and conversations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think Bigger: A Note from Nataly Duyko</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/07/13/think-bigger-a-note-from-nataly-duyko/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/07/13/think-bigger-a-note-from-nataly-duyko/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nataly Duyko is a member of PTPI&#8217;s Kharkiv, Ukraine (Children to Children) Student Chapter.  Inspired by our Student Chapter video, Nataly wrote this poem: Think Bigger Every morning when it&#8217;s time for getting up You look at the ceiling and think of giving up. But look around and try to see the desperate people struggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Committees Commit to Humanitarianism</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/07/08/committees-commit-to-humanitarianism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/07/08/committees-commit-to-humanitarianism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Projects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a light bulb, &#8220;aha!&#8221; moment for Adam Tcharni, president of the Brooklyn, New York USA (LMGHS) Student Chapter: &#8220;Our school Coordinator of Student Affairs came to one of our meetings and said that it wasn&#8217;t interactive enough, that it was too much of a lesson where the officers were simply informing the members about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Note from Regina and Ernest Walti</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/06/21/a-note-from-regina-and-ernest-walti/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/06/21/a-note-from-regina-and-ernest-walti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typical People to People:  We meet one another any time and any place.  About twenty years ago, at a PTPI conference in America, we met Marsha Wallace, an active, engaged and engaging PTPI member from Los Angeles, with a heartwarming and unforgetable laugh, and exceptional generosity. We were reminded of 1996, when a Russian group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTPI&#8217;s 2010 EHI to Turkey &#8211; A Note from Tracy Justinak</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/06/18/ptpis-2010-ehi-to-turkey-a-note-from-tracy-justinak/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/06/18/ptpis-2010-ehi-to-turkey-a-note-from-tracy-justinak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adult Travel Programs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was my second PTPI Educational &#38; Humanitarian Initiative, and not my last.  Anyone can take a tour, but meeting the locals, sharing a meal in their home, bringing much needed school supplies to a three room rural school, interacting and playing with students, sharing English skills and so much more &#8211; it is life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recruitment Efforts Spell S-U-C-C-E-S-S</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/06/10/recruitment-efforts-spell-s-u-c-c-e-s-s/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/06/10/recruitment-efforts-spell-s-u-c-c-e-s-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;After a month of recruiting, we became one big and united family.&#8221; -Yavor Ivanov, Chapter Vice President In only a few months, PTPI&#8217;s Sofia, Bulgaria (The Doves) Student Chapter have recruited an astounding 42 new members.  Now nearly 100 students are actively participating in the chapter. This accomplishment was the result of hard work, dedication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTPI&#8217;s 2010 EHI to Peru</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/05/24/ptpis-2010-ehi-to-peru/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/05/24/ptpis-2010-ehi-to-peru/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what is a PTPI EHI?  EHI stands for Educational and Humanitarian Initiative, and describes PTPI&#8217;s unique travel programs that are designed to provide a more complete understanding of another culture through travel and firsthand experiences.  Each EHI includes humanitarian projects and an array of opportunities to learn more about a country&#8217;s: People History Economy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Note from PTPI&#8217;s Kumasi, Ghana University Chapter</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/02/08/a-note-from-ptpis-kumasi-ghana-university-chapter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/02/08/a-note-from-ptpis-kumasi-ghana-university-chapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a meeting held in December, 2009, chapter members debated on a visit and donation to one of the following institutions: a prison, orphanage, psychiatric hospital or children&#8217;s hospital.  After deliberating, the die was cast and it fell on the Kumasi Children&#8217;s Home. The Kumasi Children&#8217;s Home is an institution that is concerned with providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Note from Manel Diallo</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/01/13/a-note-from-manel-diallo/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/01/13/a-note-from-manel-diallo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mbaty Ba, age 109, lives in the village of Keur Mbaye Peul, Senegal.  To show the rest of the world the respect and admiration given to elders in their country, the members of PTPI&#8217;s Senegal Chapter embarked on a humanitarian visit to see Mbaty on December 26, 2009.  Chapter President Manel Diallo wrote to tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the PTPI Leadership Seminar in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://blog.ptpi.org/2009/12/10/reflections-on-the-ptpi-leadership-seminar-in-berlin/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ptpi.org/2009/12/10/reflections-on-the-ptpi-leadership-seminar-in-berlin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antoinette McIntyre Andersson, Co-President and Founder of PTPI&#8217;s Karlstad, Sweden Chapter and Mariana Iordanova, Adult Advisor of PTPI&#8217;s Sofia, Bulgaria (The Doves) Student Chapter, recently attended the Leadership Seminar hosted by PTPI&#8217;s European Office in Berlin. Greetings from the north! As I sit here and reflect on the Fourth Leadership Seminar arranged by PTPI’s European Office, [...]]]></description>
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