<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>fugeesfamily</title><description>fugeesfamily</description><link>https://www.fugeesfamily.org/blog</link><item><title>Charity should not be a competition, but when it is…</title><description><![CDATA[It has been one week since I returned home from the hectic and frenzied culminating week of the Chase American Giving Awards. As many of you know, we didn’t win the $1million. It wasn’t for lack of effort or grassroots support. I knew going into this contest that we might not win, but I also knew that we had given it everything, and that I would go home feeling proud of our team no matter what.I never wanted to be a fundraiser. I do work that I love and believe in, and I raise the money we need<img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/z-TzBSJDfcQ/0.jpg"/>]]></description><link>https://www.fugeesfamily.org/single-post/2014/03/13/Charity-should-not-be-a-competition-but-when-it-is%E2%80%A6</link><guid>https://www.fugeesfamily.org/single-post/2014/03/13/Charity-should-not-be-a-competition-but-when-it-is%E2%80%A6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:10:09 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Imagine you were born cursed</title><description><![CDATA[Imagine you were born into war; into poverty; raised in a refugee camp, or worse, kidnapped and forced to become a child soldier in a brutal civil war. Imagine being forced out of your country and never having a home. Imagine the hopelessness, the deep certainty, that your life will never get better. Imagine feeling this way, knowing this, at ten years old.Now imagine that, against all odds, the journey of your young, cursed life takes an incredible turn: you have been accepted into the United<img src="http://static.parastorage.com/media/0ed54d_7b96337201ad462eab571ed1428e017f.jpg_256"/>]]></description><link>https://www.fugeesfamily.org/single-post/2014/03/13/Imagine-you-were-born-cursed</link><guid>https://www.fugeesfamily.org/single-post/2014/03/13/Imagine-you-were-born-cursed</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:05:18 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>