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	<title>Esther Passaris Blog &#187; Driving Kenya Foundation</title>
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	<description>Esther Passaris Driving Kenya Straight from the Heart!</description>
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		<title>The Monthly Entrepreneurs Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that many of my readers are not aware that I have been having a monthly entrepreneurs grant. Many entrepreneurs, young inventors and upcoming business people are most of the time restricted by the availability of funds or credit. The Kenya government has come up with many credit programs most of which are still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mmmm Kenya Government?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[CK Prahalad on the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday this week I attended the talk by CK Prahalad on the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. This talk was quite an eye opener but the government role is key to its success. Today the government of Kenya went a step ahead and launched the water irrigation project to address food shortage by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan People Working Abroad!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While en route coming home I decided to stop in Dubai at the Atlantis Hotel. It is amazing how many young Kenyans are working and earning a living that pays them double if not triple of a similar job back home. But more than that it gives them an opportunity to work and earn an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Kenya by 2015</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited Bangalore, India for a franchise exhibition where my hope was to sign up a few franchises for our youth and also for other hard working Kenyans. One of the areas that Driving Kenya Foundation will embark on when I come back home is to start the drive for 1 million jobs. This will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applications Received!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the Entrepreneurs Grants that was launched a few days ago, applications are beginning to pour in from all over the country. We will wait for a cut off number before we start to short-list the applicants. The short-listed applicants will be contacted via email and a further selection will be made to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurs Grants!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier in the month I posted about giving a chance to one or more Kenyans to go for their dreams through a monthly grant. Although micro finance is available in the country it is not accessible for all. This grant is my way of helping some Kenyan to achieve their dreams and create employment. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Will Come To Our Rescue?</title>
		<link>http://www.estherpassaris.com/blog/who-will-come-to-our-rescue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.estherpassaris.com/blog/who-will-come-to-our-rescue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life in Kenya is worrying as the incidences and headlines we awake to are just as frightening as can get. From suspicion and allegations of paedophile priests to evangelists being charged with pornography. Rising insecurity, you keep hearing of carjacking, extortion through sms, school kids being kidnapped with ransom requests of millions of shillings, among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bag of Rocks</title>
		<link>http://www.estherpassaris.com/blog/a-bag-of-rocks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.estherpassaris.com/blog/a-bag-of-rocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time my son is angry, I tell him baby you are carrying very big rocks you need to get them off your back and we work on it together because today even an empty rack sack is heavy now imagine one filled with massive heavy rocks? We all carry rocks from past experiences, from [...]]]></description>
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