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		<title>Youth Action International expands to Bong and Margibi Counties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Executive Director of Youth Action International Dr. Kimmie Weeks has announced that his organization has opened two new offices in rural Liberia. Weeks says Youth Action International has opened offices in Bong and Margibi Counties in addition to its ongoing activities in Grand Bassa and Bomi. The new offices being opened will provide skills [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2012/02/youth-action-international-expands-to-bong-and-margibi-counties/</link>
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		<title>“THE FUTURE IS NOW!” &#8211; KIMMIE WEEKS ADSMONISHES STUDENTS AT RICKS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Executive Director of Youth Actin International Dr. Kimmie L. Weeks has told over 600 students at Ricks Institute that there is a strong need for them to begin to work extra hard at being successful rather than waiting for their long term careers to start. Weeks says Liberian youth should strive to create positive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2012/02/%e2%80%9cthe-future-is-now%e2%80%9d-kimmie-weeks-adsmonishes-students-at-ricks/</link>
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		<title>Youth Action International High School Youth Leader of the Year  2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Amanda Hurlbut, a 12th grade student, who since 2009, has led Kids with Sole, in coordination with YAI to send 3000 pairs of sneakers to children in Liberia.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2012/02/youth-action-international-high-school-youth-leader-of-the-year-2011/</link>
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		<title>My Liberian internship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a year since I began my internship at Youth Action International and what I thought would be an easy task is very difficult. I do not know where to start in talking about my experiences over the last one year. To save myself from overworking my young brain trying to think about my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2011/11/my-liberian-internship/</link>
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		<title>YOUTH ACTION INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES ITS LARGEST EMPOWEMENT INITIATIVE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Youth Action International’s country office in Liberia has begun the process of recruiting more than 3,500 young men and women to benefit from the organizations largest training and economic empowerment initiative called the Liberian Youth Empowerment Program.  At least half of the places have already been filled by young people from the poorest communities in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2011/11/youth-action-international-launches-its-largest-empowement-initiative/</link>
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		<title>Please Volunteer to help YAI win US$1 million from Chase Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YAI and 24 other organizations have just been selected from amongst thousands of others to form part of an online competition. The Competition is called the American Giving Award and is being hosted by Chase Bank. As you recall, YAI won $20,000 in the Chase voting competition last year. &#160; This year, the charity with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2011/09/please-volunteer-to-help-yai-win-us1-million-from-chase-bank/</link>
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		<title>Thank You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for signing up to help YAI win the upcoming competition.   We appreciate you. Please take a few minutes to check out the rest of the web site.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2011/09/thank-you/</link>
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		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2011/09/597/</link>
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		<title>YOUTH ACTION INTERNATIONAL &amp; US EMBASSY JOIN FORCES TO TACKLE Pre &amp; Post Election Violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   Youth Action International (YAI) in collaboration with the US Embassy in Monrovia today announced a major new initiative geared at promoting non-violence amongst youth during and after Liberia’s upcoming general and presidential elections. The program, which is called the 2011 Electoral Violence Prevention Initiative will include various youth peace forums, community engagement programs, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2011/09/youth-action-international-us-embassy-join-forces-to-tackle-pre-post-election-violence/</link>
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		<title>YAI’S RURAL COMPUTER PROGRAM GRADUATES 50</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifty students in Grand Bassa County, Liberia have graduated from YAI’s computer training program. Launched two years ago the computer training program provides basic and advanced computer courses to young people in rural Liberia. Youth Action International designed this program for youths in Grand Bassa because the county had no higher education institutions and young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2011/07/yai%e2%80%99s-rural-computer-program-graduates-50/</link>
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