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		<title>Moving to a new blog</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the radio silence at our end. We have been contemplating on breaking the thread with an exciting news! In continued partnership of Acara becoming part of the University of Minnesota, we are moving our website &#38; blog into the university domain too. Please check out our new website and blog and join our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acarainstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11024428&amp;post=939&amp;subd=acarainstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two more of our students, Disha Agarwal and Adam Witt, reflect on their field visits to Samuha. Can you imagine drinking water contaminated with arsenic? I cannot.  But villagers in Koppal and Raichur districts in northern Karnataka are forced to consume drinking water with arsenic concentration as high as 50 PPB (WHO safety standard is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acarainstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11024428&amp;post=900&amp;subd=acarainstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we at the Acara Summer Institute took a break from our classroom work and spent four days observing successful social ventures. We traveled to remote areas, interacting with local villagers and staff and getting a feel for the problems they face, as well as the innovative ways in which those problems are being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acarainstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11024428&amp;post=889&amp;subd=acarainstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“What do you want to do when you grow up?” We were probably all asked this as children. For me, the answer was never the typical astronaut, firefighter, or movie star. No, I wanted to work at Colonial Williamsburg, because I would get to “dress up in old-fashioned clothes.” For those of you who are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acarainstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11024428&amp;post=885&amp;subd=acarainstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acara Challenge 2011 &#8211; Results!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 11:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Acara Challenge 2011 results are out! Four teams of student social entrepreneurs have been chosen to receive Acara scholarships of $5,000 and tuition for the Acara Summer Institute in India to advance their business: TextRA, Sewasan, Swach and Ankur Initiative. Over the last semester, as part of the Acara Challenge 2011, 21 teams involving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acarainstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11024428&amp;post=868&amp;subd=acarainstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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