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	<title>Direct Aid Iraq</title>
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	<description>Invest in Peace</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 19:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mina: Update on First Surgery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 19:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>direct aid iraq</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctors performed a successful surgery on Mina, removing the tumors from her left eyelid, which were obstructing her vision in both eyes, and threatening to blind her left eye. This surgery will restore normal vision. Doctors also removed the ugly growths from her ears. DAI arranged and paid for this surgery.
After the surgery, Mina&#8217;s family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 20:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amman, April, 2008 - for the DAI team
Haifa&#8217;a speaks
Time to think.
Suddenly, in the midst of war,
time to remember,
to sift and re-sift,
to see clearly.
For forty years, I lived by the sun&#8217;s light,
drinking it through the mouth of my pupils.
Who could distinguish between that light and my eyes?
Didn&#8217;t my eyes also glow,
weren&#8217;t they themselves also stars?

For forty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiwa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Early on the morning of February 15, 2004, Hiwa went, as he did every day, to the market in Kirkuk where people or companies in need of laborers hired workers on a daily basis. On this day Hiwa wasn&#8217;t told where he would be working, but was driven for two hours to the American military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buthaina, back in Baghdad, needs help</title>
		<link>http://www.directaidiraq.org/buthaina-back-in-baghdad-needs-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.directaidiraq.org/buthaina-back-in-baghdad-needs-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>direct aid iraq</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

	
	Buthaina in Amman, Summer 2007


When Cindy Sheehan (co-founder of the antiwar group Gold Star Families for Peace and mother of slain US soldier Casey Sheehan, for whom &#8220;Camp Casey&#8221; in Crawford, Texas, was named) visited Buthaina with DAI team members last summer, she wrote an appeal for funds that was able to help significantly with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mina</title>
		<link>http://www.directaidiraq.org/mina/</link>
		<comments>http://www.directaidiraq.org/mina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Four-and-a-half-year-old Mina&#8217;s mother took a medicine called Tinifar - which is now known to cause birth defects - during her first two weeks of pregnancy in early 2003. When the war started in March, there were many explosions in her area and she lost touch with her husband, who was in Baghdad, for 20 days. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saba</title>
		<link>http://www.directaidiraq.org/saba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Out-of-Country Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just before 8 in the morning in early December 2007, 18-year-old Saba was riding in the bus she and her friends used to get to college in Baghdad when a young man boarded and asked to be taken to a different university. When the driver refused, the young man insisted and then pulled out a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahla</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
In the summer of 2006 Sahla was in her garage baking bread while her husband and children were out when a car bomb went off outside her home, causing the oven she was using to explode. Sahla&#8217;s neighbors heard her screaming and came to her aid, putting out the fire with blankets and calling her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Rana in Amman, Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://www.directaidiraq.org/to-rana-in-amman-gratitude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Direct Aid Iraq wishes to express our heartfelt appreciation for our friend and colleague Rana, who has become a key member of the DAI team.

Rana started working with DAI a few months ago, having learned about DAI through our website, and has since worked closely with DAI&#8217;s coordinators in Jordan. She has provided her gifts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haifa&#8217;a: Sight and hope</title>
		<link>http://www.directaidiraq.org/haifaa-when-sight-brings-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

			

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I met Haifa&#8217;a for the first time two months ago.  She was very sad, and she was desperately worried about her future, because she couldn&#8217;t see, and because of her other injuries. With no children and no husband to help her, she didn&#8217;t know what to do, alone in Jordan except for her sister. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different kind of healing for Iraqi kids in Amman</title>
		<link>http://www.directaidiraq.org/dai-circus2iraq-in-amman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.directaidiraq.org/dai-circus2iraq-in-amman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>direct aid iraq</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently received a message from two kind ladies who wanted to draw a smile on Iraqi kids&#8217; faces. Laura, Annie, and their colleagues&#8217; main concern is with children who have been hurt during the American-British occupation of Iraq. Their organization, called &#8220;Circus2Iraq&#8221;, believes in promoting peace and love among all people, like DAI. Because [...]]]></description>
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