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Free mosquito nets not all they're cracked up to be
Giveaway programs, though well-intentioned, choke off an ongoing commercial supply. The voucher approach, however, makes nets more accessible by drawing wholesalers and retailers into remote locations.
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Child care providers get post-Katrina help
A New Orleans agency is working with MEDA to train people who want to start a child care business.
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High impact, black ink
2.6 million clients helped; revenues up 25 percent
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Introducing: MEDA Trust
Interactive service allows donors to lend directly to the poor
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Paraguay's First Lady charms MEDA convention
Paraguay's First Lady said that when she was invited to speak at MEDA's annual convention she didn't hesitate for a minute "because of what MEDA has meant to Paraguay."
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Lessons from 9/11
Papermaker Heidi Reimer-Epp knew there would be challenges when she began her own company. She never imagined her products would be seen as a threat to national security.
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Selling by the Golden Rule
A Life Well Lived: The Story of Jim Penner and Penner Foods.
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Blown away
A week in the balmy tropics isn't the worst way to spend a week of winter. Just ask Conrad Brenneman of Nappanee, Ind., who went on a working holiday to Nicaragua.
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Ten Commandments for my business
Can the toys of our trade, like PDAs and laptops, become our idols?
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Lessons from a cup of coffee
People who buy Fair Trade coffee think farmers are guaranteed a minimum price. That isn't always the case.
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MicroVest attracts first mutual fund investor
MicroVest has received its first mutual fund investment, paving the way for other interested mutual funds.
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Entrepreneurs get away for annual faith retreat
For Jake and Hilda Redekop and Harry and Edna Richert, a winter trip to Palm Springs, Calif., has been a ritual for the past 27 years.
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Painting with knife and fork
Starting her own catering business gave Lali Hess a chance to blend her values and culinary skills.
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Minister of maintenance
While other people may spend their evenings relaxing at home, Dave and Ruth Thiessen can be seen out and about, helping people.
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A Heart for Art
She needed help with the business side of running a gallery. Then she heard about ASSETS.
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Bayou Banquet
Embattled Gulf shrimpers offer a taste-test to promote their own wild product
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Web Whim
When he sent a university project on new technology to MEDA, Shawn Neumann wasn’t really expecting a response. But soon he was working for the agency, and sowing the seeds of a new web design company
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Why Christian NGOs should care about climate change
Global warming will hit poor countries the hardest, washing away gains made by development agencies
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Tyco rescuer to headline Toronto MEDA Convetion

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Soul Enterprise
Called to be a barista?
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Getting Respect
A simple thing like market access is helping cloistered Pakistani women shake off generations of abuse and repression
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Resilient Fullers rise again
Not all may be happy in the Habitat heartland, but the “theology of the hammer” will not be silenced The House That Love Built. By Bettie B. Youngs (Hampton, 2007, 360 pp. $25.95 U.S.)
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My short life as a fashionista
Self-loathing welled up within me as I realized I was wearing the wrong kind of undershirt by Wally Kroeker
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The Puck Stops Here
Behind the visible success: solid Mennonite virtues like integrity and relational concern
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Strong Signal
They started 50 years ago with a tiny 1,000-watt station that skeptics said wouldn’t make it. Now there are 28 stations across the Prairies – all sending a message that community service works. by Wally Kroeker
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OneWorld notes target “Mom & Pop” investors

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What a difference 20 years makes
Twenty years ago Allan Sauder joined MEDA to manage a new project in Tanzania to produce ox-drawn farm implements. Today he is MEDA’s president. At a staff event honoring this milestone he reflected on MEDA’s past and possible future.
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Irrigation to the rescue in Zambia and Ethiopia

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Prepping for the Interview

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Ethics Top 10 List

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Not Everyone A Bono Fan

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