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	<title>Brocades from the Heart</title>
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	<description>A rural community livelihood project</description>
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		<title>Amy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amy is new to the handicraft program. We met her last year during our home visitation rounds in the village. Born with a severe lack of cartilage formation in her limbs, Amy depends on a niece to piggy-back her to &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/amy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=417&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/amy/</link>
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		<title>The Well that Did Not Run Dry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Xiao Tang’s miracle was a little different. In the past year of drought, the well in her yard that supplied water for her family’s drinking and cooking needs never ran dry. Her crops seemed to be doing well and her &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/the-well-that-did-not-run-dry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=363&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/the-well-that-did-not-run-dry/</link>
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		<title>Livestock Breeder and Trader; New Mother Little Stream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Little Stream&#8217;s talents were the first to surface when she found success and joy in growing pigs and chickens. The money from the handicrafts helped fund her first breeding ventures. When we visited her this year, we noticed a visibly &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/livestock-breeder-trader-new-mother-little-stream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=203&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/livestock-breeder-trader-new-mother-little-stream/</link>
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		<title>Building in a Time of Drought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Xiao Zhang’s pigs continued to die. Her sow died recently and there was only one pig left in the sty when we visited this year. It was also a bad year for farming. The drought was so bad the government &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/building-in-a-time-of-drought/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=195&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/building-in-a-time-of-drought/</link>
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		<title>Lydia, A New Beginning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lydia has remarried. Her new husband is a farmer. A widower with a 9 year old daughter. We have not met him yet but our most reliable on site eye witness found him honest, hard working and helpful. Lydia is &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/lydia-a-new-beginning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=59&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/lydia-a-new-beginning/</link>
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		<title>Little Stream&#8217;s Piglets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just got news from the village that Little Stream successfully sold her second batch of pigs and is now breeding her third. She makes over Rmb 2000 per batch and we are overjoyed with her success. We understand that &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/little-streams-piglets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=53&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/little-streams-piglets/</link>
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		<title>Running the Race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Brocades team has just returned from visiting the ladies in the village. Each one of us were deeply impressed and encouraged to find the ladies on the program no longer on the verge of destitution; more confident of themselves, &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/running-the-race/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=48&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/running-the-race/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Wind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beautiful Wind is 12 years old right now. Her story came to our attention at a time when her family was contemplating pulling her out of her school because of their financial situation and also because she had been failing &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/44/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=44&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/44/</link>
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		<title>Xiao Zhang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Xiao Zhang and her family are subsistence farmers. The crops they plant are enough just to feed themselves. Their pigs are critical because during the Spring Festival, these are slaughtered, eaten to celebrate the New Year, and the remainder salted &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/40/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=40&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/40/</link>
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		<title>Little Stream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Little Stream is a lady in her late twenties. She lost her leg due to a tumor several years ago. Unable to do heavy farm work, she was shunned by her poor farming family as they considered her useless and &#8230; <a href="http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/little-stream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15423700&amp;post=35&amp;subd=brocadesfromtheheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://brocadesfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/little-stream/</link>
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