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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 3:46PM 
FONDESOL, which started as a CRS project in 2002, has become the 13th-ranked microfinance institution in Latin America, according to the 2010 edition of “Microfinance Americas: The Top 100.”
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 3:40PM 
Dennis WarnerStudents in schools with proper sanitation facilities are more motivated, skip class less, get better test scores and have fewer gastrointestinal problems than those in schools with no toilets, a top CRS Water and Sanitation expert said at a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C. on October 6, 2010, relaying information he’d obtained from a teacher in Honduras.
Education, Sanitation, Water Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 3:35PM 
The United States Government, along with representatives from UN agencies and NGOs, are planning to call for increased awareness and funding for programs to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools worldwide.
