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    <title><![CDATA[ Visit to Masanga - January 2020]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 16:00:01 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Three of us left this year in January 2020: my partner Daniel, our friend René and me. It was fun to have two men taking care of all the upkeep work that never ends. In fact, the word “maintenance” is not well-known in the local African vocabulary. They... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Moreau]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[MEA School extension ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:24:59 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Expansion of our school in Masanga How many girls suffer genital mutilation every year? How many of them are not entitled to education and medical care? We are disgusted, discouraged and outraged, but there will be no change without concrete action. For... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Moreau]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Staying in Masanga January 2019]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:13:50 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A three-people trip this time because Véronique, who controls the association's accounts, accompanied Renata and me. It is important that people come to the site and realize the situation on the ground, the work done and the difficulties, especially counting... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Moreau]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[BYE TOLO ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 10:12:52 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Our beloved coordinatore is living 
Dear Tolo, Dear son of heart and friend, Director of Masanga MEA Association Your soul flew to other heavens Far too soon But it is God who is the most powerful And who called you back to him And we can only respect... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Moreau]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[2017 in Masanga ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:50:11 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[For this trip we went to 4. Renata, who is responsible for our school and the continuing education of the local teachers, my granddaughter Shanice who will make a film about our program and organize creative activities in 1st child class, Manon who organizes... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Moreau]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to proced for sponsoship or donation ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:50:54 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[How to proceed for the sponsorship or donations Just send me your complete address, eventually the name of the child you want help, how much you want to send to him and the frequency. I will send you a picture and his complete dates and regularly information... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Moreau]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[2015 Ebola in Sierra Leone ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:18:36 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last News from Masanga for godfathers, godmothers and sponsors of MEA Association An epidemic of Ebola broke out in Sierra Leone. The population has the obligation to remain confined in their own village to avoid a maximum of contact with the infected... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Moreau]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Travel in Masanga end of 2013]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:39:10 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[December 2013. Thre intense weeks due to work and feelings. Isabelle, our new active member who came with me, was a very big help. Her commitment and capacity of adaptation as well as her relationship with the villagers that they appreciated a lot. A... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Moreau]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Who are MEA association ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:27:36 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[MEA ASSOCIATION Masanga Education and Assistance Active in Sierra Leone, West Africa WE HAVE CONSTRUCTED A KINDERGARTEN THAT ONLY ACCEPTS GIRLS THE PARTENTS OF WHICH HAVE PROMISED TO NEVER HAVE THEM MUTILATED. AND IT WORKS ! TODAY HUNDREDS OF GIRLS PROFIT... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele Moreau]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[My stay in Masanga January 2013]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:19:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My stay in Masanga - January 2013 We left in 4. Renata who enormously supported me for 3 weeks, Florence and Laurie and me. Florence and Laurie spent one week in the bush with the Bondo women and 60 girls and became shama Sama ans shama Yenke. Laurie... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The 4th Bondo ceremony in Masanga]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I had never traveling in Masanga in April, it's a hot month and above all very very dusty. Circulating behind a truck on a track I find myself in an orange-red mist, no there is absolutely more nothing. All took the same colour; nothing is even an exception... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[To became a Bondo from Renata]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[To became a Bondo The meeting with the Bondo women happened during my first trip to Masanga in September 2010 had left inside me a deep mark… .the desire to meet them again and accept their invitation to become a Bondo. I realized a strength, an involvement,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The third Bondo ceremony WITHOUT excision]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[That's it! We organized and financed the 3rd ceremony of the Bondos women WITHOUT the practice of the excision. So we protect an ancestral tradition consisting of dances, singings and teaching through theatrical games. The goal is that everything is made... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Renata in Masanga]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Thousand encounter in Africa It was March 2007 in Spain when I first met Michèle. We were both participating to a seminar and in this occasion Michèle told us about her experience in Africa and her project in Masanga: to create pre-elementary school for... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pierre-Louis Masanga traveling]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[At the request of the NGO(NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION) MASANGA EDUCATION ASSISTANCE, I spent two weeks in Masanga, Sierra Leone, at the beginning of September starting period of the school year, to make a report photos on the 250 children that MEA Organisation... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Masanga September 2011]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Hello everybody! I spent all September in Masanga but this time I was under a steady rain and a rate of 100% humidity . The jeep offered to us by Gaznat à Aigle finally arrived on the spot (not charged on the planned boat, problems of mooring and fight... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Second Bondo ceremony in Masanga WITHOUT FGM]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It’s the day of the registration of the girls for this 2nd ceremony of the women Bondos and Ya Ramatu Fornah is very proud to be the first woman in Sierra Leone to reject her role and practice of excision. As godmother of our program she feels even more... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Small girls waiting for a sponsor]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://mutilation.over-blog.com/article-girls-waiting-for-a-sponsor-61710219.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[M’Balu Kamara, 2005. Live in Masanga. Hawanatu Koroma, 2002. Live in Masanga. Marie Kamara 2, 2002. Live in Masanga. Fatmata Fornah, 2003. Live in RogbomLine Isatu Fornah, 2004. Live in RogbomLine Hassanatu Kamara , 2005. Live in Makarr with her aunty.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Autumn 2010 in Masanga]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://mutilation.over-blog.com/article-s-61692750.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[How incredibly exciting this last trip was! I left with Renata, a wonderful Italian friend. We worked like dogs, but at the end the results were really extremely positive. More than 200 young girls have been saved from excision! Our arrival in Masanga... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[MEA kindergarden place]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://mutilation.over-blog.com/article-mea-49785939.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We are happy to present you the MEA (Masanga Education and Assistance) garden of Masanga. The works advanced well this winter. Michael made build a kitchen, a dining hall and a house for the guard as well as a well. The school kitchen According to their... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The situation with the Sowers and the section chief]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A great news I want absolutly share with you all. My tenacity, my lack of fear and my faith in life is bringing in fruits. Many kisses to all. Minutes of the meeting with the district leaders (chiefs) of Tonkollili and the section chief with the district... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[My Bondos initiation in Masanga]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have just returned from Africa, or more exactly from our initiation, a friend, Reita, and 95 little girls having accompanied me. What are the Bondos women? They are a society of very well-known and influential women in Sierra Leone. Most of the women... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[September and October 2009, my sojourn in Masanga]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://mutilation.over-blog.com/article-september-october-in-masanga-39715175.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here I am at the beginning of November, back from Masanga, and once again full of energy thanks to the success of my anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) programme. It is still difficult to believe that this has worked so well and so fast. Up till today... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michele]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[An exciseuse which militates against the excision]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Yes you are not dreaming, this is Ya Sampa indeed, the most highly respected woman around, chief among the "Bondos women" (in bleu), bringing those little twins to our program. She does not want them to be excised. Our initiative keeps gathering steam!... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What do those who carry out female genital mutilation think?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What do those who carry out female genital mutilation think ? To my right, sitting tightly next to me Ya Sampa. She is the "bondos" chief in Masanga, the most influential woman in the neighbourhood. I will not go into greater detail except to say that... ]]></description>
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