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	<title><![CDATA[CODE » CODE in the News - "If you can read and write, you can learn to do anything"]]></title>
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	<title><![CDATA[Donor sees impact on Ethiopia]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[When 71-year-old Loraine Rowan first set foot on Ethiopian soil, one thought ran through her mind. — "This is going to be a wonderful adventure." — It wasn't the first time Rowan, a retired registered nurse and Kitchener resident, had been to Africa. She once visited her daughter, who lived in Mozambique as a representative of the United Nations. — But this trip wasn't simply for pleasure. Rowan wanted to see the effect she's had on many Ethiopians. — Since the early 1990s, she and her late husband, Ivan, had supported the Canadian Organization for Development through Education, known as CODE. The goal of the Ottawa-based charity is to promote literacy in impoverished countries. — "We always felt education is very important," Rowan said. "We already had kind of a connection with the Third World and thought it was the best way we could assist them."This year, the charity invited Rowan and nine other long-term donors on their second-ever Seeing is Believing Tour, a two-week trip to Ethiopia during...]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Donor goes to Africa and finds Seeing is Believing]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[  — EDMONTON - In the photo he has up on one of his two computer screens, Michael Mravinec is sitting at a table in Addis Ababa surrounded by a bunch of high-school locals. They all have a book in front of them -- and grins from ear to ear. — It's just one of the 1,500 pictures he took during his trip to Ethiopia last month as part of the Canadian Organization for Development through Education Seeing is Believing program. — For the last 10 years or so, Mravinec has donated money to CODE, which supplies books and learning materials to developing countries. — "CODE is my favourite charity, since teaching people to read and write is the foundation of all learning," Mravinec said Sunday of the organization, which runs literacy programs throughout Africa and the Caribbean. — "If you contrast it to other charities who maybe just give handouts -- if you teach someone to learn, you're teaching them to learn for a lifetime. You're teaching them to help themselves." — However, for the last decade,...]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Local donor sees dollars at work]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Michael Mravinec has been donating to the Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE) for over 10 years, but he never expected the letter they mailed him this spring. — It was an invitation to join a CODE worker and eight other Canadians on a two-week trip to Ethiopia to witness their dollars at work supporting education and literacy in the impoverished nation. — “I thought, ‘Wow, what a great idea’, Mravinec says. The Mill Woods computer programmer anticipates a “fantastic” trip. — “Meeting the people who are working for CODE and the people that are helping, that’s going to be an incredible experience,” he says. — CODE took off last week with nine key donors to visit developing Ethiopian schools and libraries and to meet with the people who are implementing the non-profit organization’s initiatives. Mravinec and a few of the other invitees plan to stay an extra week to do some sightseeing. — The only Edmonton making the...]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Glammis couple heading to Ethiopia]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[With the first snow flurries of the season already landing, John and Adele Kaminski have chosen a warmer place to spend the first part of November. The Glammis couple and eight other Canadians head to Ethiopia Nov. 7 on a two-week tour with CODE, a Canadian charity that stresses development through education in Africa and the Caribbean. “It’s a country we wouldn’t normally think of visiting,” says Adele. “The timing was just right (for this trip).” —   — The Kaminskis, other CODE supporters and a CODE employee fly from Ottawa to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa next week. From there, the group will travel north to Lake Tana, before returning to the capital.  The tour will be different from regular tourist packages. The Kaminskis will travel to remote rural  regions of the country and witness the work of CODE – visiting schools, libraries and reading rooms that  Canadian donations have helped pay for. “It’s going...]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[More than a pencil]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA["To my friend, who I've never met…" begin many of the letters. They are written painstakingly, in "best printing" and often decorated with stickers or small drawings.  Then they are each tucked into an individual plastic bag along with a pencil, notebook, ruler and eraser. Four simple supplies that, for many students in the developing world, are their key into school. — Assembling these kits of school supplies is the hands-on activity for Canadian students participating in "Project Love". For 20 years, Project Love has been engaging students and teachers to "think globally and act locally" in a unique project of global awareness. Project Love is one of the initiatives of the Ottawa-based organization CODE, which promotes international development through literacy programs. — "To us, it's just a pencil," says Sherwood Park teacher-librarian Pamela McLeod. "But to children in Senegal or Tanzania, school supplies are their ticket to quality education. In many places, students face...]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate> 
	<link>http://www.codecan.org/en/media-room/in-the-news/551</link> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Councillor prepares for Seeing is Believing tour]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Margaret Casey can’t control her excitement these days. — Casey, who has been a supporter of the Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE) for more than a decade, indicated that her strong support has provided her with an opportunity to travel to Ethiopia to see how CODE’s donated dollars have made a difference in the lives of many. — “My husband (John) and I leave on Nov. 7,” said Casey. “The tour itself is two weeks and I believe a total of 10 of us are going.” — Casey originally heard about CODE upon receiving a signed letter in the mail from Nolton Nash, a CBC news anchor who she’d always admired. The letter he wrote was a heart-felt one that focused on the need for improved literacy in third-world countries. Because books have always been of utmost importance to her and her children, Casey immediately felt a connection to the cause. — “Reading was always one of my favourtite things to do with them,” she said. “I...]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate> 
	<link>http://www.codecan.org/en/media-room/in-the-news/550</link> 
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	<title><![CDATA[TALULAR for quality education]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[From the Malawi News, October 24, 2008.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
	<link>http://www.codecan.org/en/media-room/in-the-news/549</link> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Easy reading in Africa now has its rewards]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail - Saturday, August 30, 2008, B2 - GIVING BACK — Easy reading in Africa now has its rewardsBY PAUL WALDIE — The donor: Bill BurtThe Gift: $1-millionThe Cause: CODEThe Reason: To fund a prize for African writers — About a year ago, Bill Burt went to Africa on a 10-day trip organized by CODE to see some of the organization's operations. The Ottawa-based agency runs a variety of literacy programs across Africa and the Caribbean and Mr. Burt, a retired commodity broker, had been a donor. — The trip took a turn for Mr. Burt late one night in Ethiopia when he was struck by an idea. "The idea came to me at four in the morning when I was having trouble sleeping," Mr. Burt, 62, recalled from his farm in eastern Ontario. — During his visit, Mr. Burt had seen a handful of books that seemed to engage young readers and he decided to fund a prize to encourage African writers to write more easy-to-read books. — The idea has turned into the Burt Award for African Literature, which will be officially...]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
	<link>http://www.codecan.org/en/media-room/in-the-news/548</link> 
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	<title><![CDATA[They’d like to teach the world to read]]></title> 
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate> 
	<link>http://www.codecan.org/en/media-room/in-the-news/527</link> 
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	<title><![CDATA[The true reward of savvy investing - giving back]]></title> 
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	<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate> 
	<link>http://www.codecan.org/en/media-room/in-the-news/531</link> 
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