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	<description>The Royal Commonwealth Society&#039;s malaria education competition</description>
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		<title>Me and My Net Winner&#8217;s Reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen year old Siya Kulkarni, from India, was the winner of the 2011 Me and My Net competition. Her prize was a packed visit to London, during Commonwealth Week 2012. Below, Siya reflects on her experiences during the week and how it has had an impact on her understanding of the global challenge of malaria: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me and My Net Winner&#8217;s Week, 10-15 March 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen year old Siya Kulkarni, from India, was in London for Commonwealth Week 2012, as her prize as the Winner of Me and My Net 2011, supported by Sumitomo Chemical’s Olyset Net. During the week, Siya represented her country by carrying the Indian flag at the Commonwealth Day Observance at Westminster Abbey.  She also visited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meandmy.net/2012/winners-week/</link>
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		<title>Me and My Net winners announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen year old Siya Kulkarni, from Pune, India, has been announced as the winner of the ‘Me and My Net’ Competition, organised by the Royal Commonwealth Society. Winning first prize from more than 2000 entries, Siya was unanimously praised by the judges for her well-thought out campaign, “Nets for a Better Life”, which detailed activities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meandmy.net/2012/me-and-my-net-winners-announced/</link>
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		<title>Read International on Me and My Net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During a volunteering trip to Tanzania with READ International I was part of a team which distributed books to schools. We also renovated a library at Kilakala Secondary School; an all girl’s boarding school in. We were pleased to see that each student had been provided with their own mosquito net to cover their bed.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meandmy.net/2011/read-international-on-me-and-my-net/</link>
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		<title>My Malaria Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Me and My Net team went to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam for Malaria Youth Summits earlier this year we asked all the young people attending to tell us their Malaria Story. We collected stories from ninety participants, each telling us how malaria has affected them. Some of recount when they had malaria themselves, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meandmy.net/2011/my-malaria-story/</link>
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		<title>Spotlight on AMREF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AMREF is Africa’s leading health charity, whose vision is lasting health change in Africa. They were founded in 1957 as the Flying Doctors Service of East Africa. They work across Africa, with major programmes in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania and South Africa, and expanding outreach into West Africa. One of AMREF’s main priorities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meandmy.net/2011/spotlight-on-amref/</link>
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		<title>HASENA&#8217;S EXPERIENCE OF MALARIA IN ETHIOPIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“My twin daughters died when they were only two years old. I didn’t know what was wrong with them, they were both very ill and I was weak with a fever,&#8221; says Hasena, a member of the nomadic Afar people of southeast Ethiopia.  &#8220;I carried them for two days to the nearest health centre, walking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meandmy.net/2011/hasenas-experience-of-malaria-in-ethiopia/</link>
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		<title>World Mosquito Day &#8211; 20th August</title>
		<description><![CDATA[20th August is World Mosquito Day. Created in 1897, it marks the discovery by Sir Ronald Ross, a British doctor working in India, that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans. On unearthing this breakthrough, Dr Ross declared that this day be known as World Mosquito Day. Dr Ross went on to become the first British person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meandmy.net/2011/world-mosquito-day-20th-august/</link>
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		<title>Spotlight on Tanzania House of Talent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tanzania House of Talent (THT) is a non-profit organisation working on enabling disadvantaged youths in Tanzania to develop talent in performing arts through a number of campaigns, one of which it &#8216;Z!nduka Malaria Haikubaliki.&#8217; Launched in 2010, the objective of this innovative campaign is to create a call to action amongst the youth of Tanzania [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meandmy.net/2011/zinduka/</link>
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		<title>Competition Deadline Extended</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been thrilled to receive so many excellent entries into the Me and My Net Competition.  Due to popular demand, the deadline for entries into the competition has been extended to Friday 28 October 2011. Remember, you can enter the competition in three ways: 1. Get Writing! Imagine that you have a cousin who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meandmy.net/2011/competition-deadline-extended/</link>
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