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	November 30, 2007: New York City Community Celebrates World AIDS Day 2007
	November 2007 Newsletter: Partners in Making History! Read how Hunger Project investors are truly stakeholders in a new future and learn how you can participate!
	November 2007: Investor Leaders visit Bangladesh. Click here to read the report and listen to the conference call recorded from Bangladesh.
	October 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The Hunger Project-Bangladesh played a leadership role in the public demonstrations in Dhaka.
	October 13-14: The 30th Anniversary celebration of The Hunger Project featured the premier of a dynamic new 8-minute video that takes us on a journey into the lives of hungry people and what becomes possible when they are empowered and powerful Keynote Presentation by Joan Holmes including the Remarks of Four Global Women Leaders from Developing Countries. Click here to reach the reports by Joan Holmes and the country directors presented at the Global Board meeting.
	October 4, 2007: Ellen Snortland receives "Women in Business" Award
	October 2007 Newsletter - Epicenters in Africa: Five Years to Self-Reliance. Read about The Hunger Project's Epicenter Strategy and how it is empowering more than three million people in Africa to be the authors of their own development and meet their basic needs on a sustainable basis.
	September 2007: Hunger Project Investors Visit Uganda
	October 2 - 7th Sarojini Naidu Prize award ceremony in New Delhi. Ms. Renuka Chowdhury Minister of State for Women and Child Development was the chief guest for the occasion; Ms. Asma Jahangir, eminent lawyer and activist from Pakistan and Ms. Shabana Azmi Actor and Activist were guests of honour.
	September 30 - 8th Annual National Girl Child Day in Bangladesh. The advisor within the caretaker government responsible for the Ministry of Women and Children participated in a rally and prize-giving in Dhaka. The Dhaka events were among more than 2000 events organized by our National Girl Child Advocacy Forum - an alliance of more than 300 organizations.
	Updates from the Field: September 2007: Hunger Project Partners in Benin Inaugurate Two New Epicenters
	New York (26 September 2007): At the 3rd annual Clinton Global Initiative meetings, a $5 million (USD) commitment by the XL Results Foundation to The Hunger Project was announced today. This commitment will enable The Hunger Project to expand its strategy for ending hunger in rural India.
	September 2007 Newsletter - Double Your Money! The Thirtieth Anniversary Leadership Challenge. Read about how you can honor the leadership of Hunger Project president Joan Holmes as we celebrate our 30th anniversary. Also hear how Hunger Project leaders in Bangladesh and India have taken action during recent devastating floods.
	The Hunger Project-Sweden finalist in Swedish Knowledge Awards
	August 2007 Newsletter - Ending Hunger: Come Celebrate the Results - So Far. . . Read about the plans for The Hunger Project's gala 30th anniversary celebration at the New York Hilton Hotel on Saturday night, October 13, 2007 and the entire weekend of events.
	August 2: Our new Global Office on Union Square is inaugurated with the placing of a garland on the status of Mahatma Gandhi right in front of our door.
	July 29, 2007: Hunger Project investors Trudy and Andy Anderson featured in the Portland Press Herald
	President Chissano, Celina Cossa and investors from five countries attend inauguration of first epicenter in Mozambique. See photos, phone call, story of Investor/Leadership trip.
	Updates from the Field: India: Rita Sarin speaks at Historic Meeting with Pakistan Ghana: Ending Hunger in Ghana: Photos from Dr. Tadesse's Recent Visit Ghana:  Villagers and local government officials inaugurate Tokome epicenter Uganda: Rural Bank and Microfinance Successes in Uganda's Epicenters Benin: Dekpo Epicenter Bank Achieves Official Government Recognition Ethiopia: More Photos from the Debre Libanos Epicenter Inauguration Ethiopia: Microfinance Progress in the Epicenters
	June 2007 Newsletter - Living in Harmony with Nature. Ensuring environmental sustainability is an essential component of ending hunger and poverty. Read how The Hunger Project works to protect and restore our natural environment.
	Hunger Project investor George Roundy raises $70,000 for The Hunger Project with his project "As We Heal - The World Heals."
	May 2007: Hunger Project-Africa Staff Celebrate the Inauguration of Ethiopia's Second Epicenter
	April 20, 2007, Zurich - Daniel and Claude Heini receive Swiss Re's 2007 Civilian Prize in recognition of their outstanding contribution to The Hunger Project Switzerland. Both brothers have been actively engaged in The Hunger Project since the 1990s, working in parallel with their professional careers which both are pursuing at UBS.
	May 2007 Newsletter - Leadership of the Human Spirit. Ending hunger requires transformative leadership—leadership that is inclusive, collaborative, opens people's hearts and minds, and produces results. Read about the 10 key aspects of Hunger Project leadership.
	Challenges for the Future of The Hunger Project: Read Joan Holmes's presentation to the Global Board of Directors with the eight key challenges as The Hunger Project transitions into its future.
	April 2007: Read the President's Report to the Global Board as well as program updates to the Global Board submitted by AWFFI and our country offices in Africa, Latin America and South Asia.
	April 2007 Newsletter - What Do We Mean by Empowerment? Read how The Hunger Project has pioneered methodologies that systematically and reliably empower hungry people - particularly women - to be authors of their own development.
	March 2007: Microfinance Progress in Malawi and Mozambique.  An update from Sanaz Memarsadeghi, African Woman Food Farmer Initiative (AWFFI) Program Officer, who recently visited several epicenters in Malawi and Mozambique - including Ligowe in Malawi which has a 100 percent loan repayment rate!
	March 8, 2007: Communication from Joan Holmes on International Women's Day, and news from our International Women's Day events in Uganda, India, Bangladesh, Ghana and New York.
	March 2007: Kiboga Epicenter Bank Achieves Government Recognition
	March 2007 Newsletter - Scaling Up What Works.  Brief overview of The Hunger Project's work to scale-up proven, affordable, replicable and sustainable strategies currently empowering more than 22 million people in 13 developing nations.
	Reports from John Coonrod in the field: Achievements in India (highlights from the staff retreat) and A Revolutionary Moment in Bangladesh
	Benin: The Hunger Project-Benin celebrates World AIDS Day with a co-ed soccer game and a discussion/debate.  Photos from other successes in the field, including the nursery school at Ouissi Epicenter and gardening at Kpinnou Epicenter.
	February 2007 Newsletter - Why We Don't Teach People To Fish. Read why the proverb: "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime" is surprisingly and dangerously misleading, and how The Hunger Project works to transform the deeply entrenched social conditions that systematically deny hungry people the right to meet their basic needs.
	January 2007: Uganda's Iganga Epicenter Strides Forward!
	In late 2006, a group of 21 investors from four countries spent a week in Rajasthan State in India with their partners on the front lines of ending hunger -- the elected women leaders who are demonstrating boldness and courage as they point the direction to a new India.
	January 2007 - Ethiopia - Two new epicenters in the construction phase in Mesqan and Debre Libanos. See the latest pictures from Dr. Fitigu Tadesse's site visits, including the latest expression of our partnership with Rotary.
	January 2007 Newsletter - Highlights of 2006 - an extraordinary year for The Hunger Project. Includes: scale-up in the Eastern Region of Ghana, microplans adopted in tsunami-affected villages, battling for clean elections in Bangladesh, empowering indigenous communities in Latin America, and innovative efforts by our investors.

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