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	<description>I am not alone</description>
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		<title>&#8220;My Five Best Friends&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received this picture from the team finishing up camps with Tibetan children in the quake ravaged town of Yushu.  She has decorated her cloth with each of the five characters from the story &#8220;Pete&#8217;s Adventure&#8221; and has written next to it these words, &#8220;These are my five best friends.&#8221; Each of the characters teaches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpSAFE Qinghai/Tibet Field Report #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OperationSAFE camps are designed to be very flexible because the situation on the ground in post-disaster settings is often still very fluid. We found this to be especially true in Yushu.  Even with the loss of most of the children to a sudden summer holiday, the team adjusted and continued the camp and actually found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gallery: Beautiful Faces</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet my new friends from the Tibetan plateau!  They are each beautiful, unique, precious and in great need. Read about our work]]></description>
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		<title>OpSAFE Qinghai/Tibet Field Report #3</title>
		<link>http://opsafeintl.com/2010/08/opsafe-qinghaitibet-field-report-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of the Frying Pan &#8230; After the first day of the camp the whole team was excited at how well it went.  Even with the time restrictions and late start we were confident that it would go well.  But the next day brought a very different set of circumstances.  The close to 80 students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpSAFE Qinghai/Tibet &#8211; Field Report #2</title>
		<link>http://opsafeintl.com/2010/08/opsafe-qinghaitibet-field-report-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am simply amazed at the flexibility and determination of our team of volunteers who were only trained a week ago.  The orphanage has very strict rules and limited staff and have given us only  two hours each evening to hold the camp.  However, the two hours are broken up by dinner in the middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpSAFE Tibet/Qinghai &#8211; Field Report #1</title>
		<link>http://opsafeintl.com/2010/08/opsafe-tibetqinghai-field-report-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Journey to Yushu Five OpSAFE camps for children who have suffered trauma are being held in both Qinghai and Sichuan.  Our team left on Monday morning on what was supposed to be a 30 hour bus ride to Yushu, the center of the quake.  We started out with three vehicles, a bus, a van [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Mountains II : From Mt. Fuji to Tibet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week of the Mt. Fuji climb, I was checking the weather constantly. July is officially the rainy season in Japan and we had a storm front moving in. By the day of, we were fully expecting to make the hike in the pouring rain, but resolved to continue as planned. One last check revealed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OperationSafe: Cartoon Characters Help Children Cope With Trauma</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tackling the problem of trauma in children around the world is very difficult. There are any number of stressors that can lead to PTSD, ranging from the obvious things like natural disasters, war and extreme poverty, to less obvious but no less damaging causes such as abuse, human trafficking, and child labor. Another obstacle is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Lessons Children Need to Avoid PTSD</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Risk of Low-Magnitude Stressors for Children&#8217;s Mental Health Two articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry struck me as pointing out a vital need in caring for children&#8217;s emotional health. The first article was on a recently published study comparing stress in children over 3-7 years of their life, the number of both low-magnitude [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Mountains</title>
		<link>http://opsafeintl.com/2010/06/moving-mountains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week I took a few days off and went to the Southern Alps of Japan, a beautiful area where rice fields are surrounded by majestic snow capped mountains.  If you don&#8217;t look at the architecture or the agriculture, you would think that around the next corner you would run into Heidi.  But of course [...]]]></description>
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