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	<description>Who are the missing link in development? Older people.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>UN&#8217;s news service posts story about Haiti&#8217;s older people</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/uns-news-service-posts-story-about-haitis-older-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindypowell</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/?p=352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ PORT-AU-PRINCE, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) – Elderly people need more attention in the response to January’s earthquake in Haiti and more appreciation of the role they can play in the relief effort, say aid workers.
Some 800,000 Haitians, or about 7 percent of the population, are over 60, says Help Age International and more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excellent NYT editorial – Haitians need to be engaged in relief process</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/excellent-nyt-editorial-%e2%80%93-haitians-need-to-be-engaged-in-relief-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/excellent-nyt-editorial-%e2%80%93-haitians-need-to-be-engaged-in-relief-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindypowell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti earthquake]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/?p=351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope this is not “Haiti in the news” overkill.  Perhaps today is all about my trying to digest nearly four weeks on the ground in Haiti, sitting at my kitchen counter in DC. Unshowered, a little dazed, and near tears for 48 hours straight.  PTSD?  Or an appropriate reaction?  Hm.
This NYT editorial hits the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post article on older people in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/washington-post-article-on-older-people-in-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/washington-post-article-on-older-people-in-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindypowell</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/?p=350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It ain’t pretty.  The Washington Post’s Bill Booth did a nice job capturing the not-so-nice reality on the ground for older Haitians.
&#8220;PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — It was always hard to be old in Haiti, but after the earthquake, to be old and poor feels like a curse, say those who are both.&#8221;

You can read the full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times interviews older survivors in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/new-york-times-interviews-older-survivors-in-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/new-york-times-interviews-older-survivors-in-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A great article in the New York Times yesterday really illustrated the impact of Haiti earthquake on older people. It said that 7% (around 84,000) of the estimated 1.2 million Haitians displaced by the earthquake are over 60.
Journalist Ian Urbina interviewed older people living in shabby makeshift shelters among the rubble of what was once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Women&#8217;s Day - 8 March 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/international-womens-day-8-march-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/international-womens-day-8-march-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bridgetsleap</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/?p=343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Commission on the Status of Women is meeting in New York to review how the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action has been implemented by governments 15 years after it was adopted.
I wasn’t working in this area 15 years ago and so was only vaguely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote from newest HelpAge team member in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/quote-from-newest-helpage-team-member-in-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/quote-from-newest-helpage-team-member-in-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindypowell</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/?p=344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I think HelpAge could be a really cool thing,” said Michael Andreini, HelpAge International’s new health guy, as he rolled a cigarette on his knee.
“I mean, you look at the brochure and it’s like we work ‘with the governments of various countries to provide social protection which include basic health care, education and income.’
“I mean, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;People&#8217;s victory&#8221; brings social pension to the Philippines</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/peoples-victory-brings-social-pension-to-the-philippines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/peoples-victory-brings-social-pension-to-the-philippines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlesknox</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[pensions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On 16 February, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines signed the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010. The Act includes the introduction of a new non-contributory pension which will be targeted at the “poorest of the poor” over the age of 60.
It will also bring into place a range of tax breaks for senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The numbers game: Making it personal</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/the-numbers-game-making-it-personal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/the-numbers-game-making-it-personal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindypowell</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/?p=321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chile had a “massive earthquake” at the weekend.  So far, around 700 people have died.
Times that by 300.  That’s how many people died here in Haiti six weeks ago.  217,000 people.  That’s more than twice the population of Cambridge, Mass.  It’s the population of Providence, RI, plus Albany, NY’s.

Seventy-nine times as many people died in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Coping during times of emergency</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/haiti-coping-during-times-of-emergency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/haiti-coping-during-times-of-emergency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindypowell</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/?p=319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One HelpAge staff member in Haiti has the life experience and tenacity to make a real contribution.
&#8220;My seven-year-old said he will only go to school if I sit beside him,” said Jean “Neil” Moretta, a 40-year-old English-speaking Haitian (pictured) who HelpAge International hired in February to assist with its emergency relief effort and beyond.
Neil “Junior” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: The resilience of age</title>
		<link>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/haiti-the-resilience-of-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helpage.org/blogs/blog/haiti-the-resilience-of-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindypowell</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/?p=311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
As HelpAge&#8217;s Haiti Communications Coordinator, I&#8217;m sharing one of my first experiences of the situation older people are facing here. I visited the Asile St. Jean de Dieu, a nursing home in Petit Goave where HelpAge is assisting older people:
I learnt about the history of Asile St. Jean de Dieu from its founding director Mademoiselle [...]]]></description>
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