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by Tram Bui
38 weeks ago
It rained heavily in Can Gio yesterday, and we waited for patients all morning but only one or two showed up. This week has been draining emotionally and physically. But today, Jenny and I both reached a new low. We arrived at clinic in the...
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by Tram Bui
38 weeks ago
It's 5:30 AM.
Early, by American college-student standards. I wake up to the sounds of motorbikes honking on the streets and my aunt's cooking in the kitchen. I rinse my face, in mental preparation to begin this day, adrenaline rushing, ready...
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by Evan Schwartz
38 weeks ago
Bahn Mi was definitely not the most delicious food I ate on this trip. After the Creative Kid Project ended, I set off for all of the places I had not been able to visit before, especially those rumored to have interesting new foods to...
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by Andy Blackadar
38 weeks ago
This short film produced by Koji Masutani '05 in collaboration with James Blight and janet Lang is part of a research effort called The Armageddon Letters. This multimedia project, based at the University of Waterloo, focuses on the most dangerous...
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by Rexy Josh Dorado
38 weeks ago
“Life continues.”
“She was in an accident just recently,” said Sônia Omário, ex-president of Vila União da Curicica, as we cut through her friend’s house and into her community. “The car flipped over and she was thrown right out.” Looking at the...
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by Rexy Josh Dorado
38 weeks ago
Quando será?
The Residents’ Association of Vila Calmete sits above polluted waters that run alongside the community’s residential streets. On the other side of a short bridge, rich plantlife springs out of diverse pots of soil, framing the river...
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by Rexy Josh Dorado
38 weeks ago
A community that breathes.
Carlos Alberto “Bezerra” Costa, Resident’s Association president of Asa Branca, stopped to look over the row of houses that greeted us into favela Abadiana, his voice a few keys graver than usual as he spoke: “To...
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by Rexy Josh Dorado
38 weeks ago
During the last half of my internship with Catalytic Communities, an NGO working to empower grassroots development and bring light to government neglect in Rio de Janeiro's traditionally marginalized favela communities, I was assigned to research a...
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by Linh Dao
38 weeks ago
Before the official launch of The Creative Kid Project, Evan and I were invited to, for the namesake of this program; let’s just call it SMF (Something Meaningful Festival). Our job for SMF was to train their facilitators on how to interact with...
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by Andrew Leber
38 weeks ago
Well, here we are in the home stretch for my Tunisian adventures – my recent day trips to the Egyptian countryside have been stacking up in the meantime, but we’ll get there in due course.
When I first arrived in Tunisia a university friend who...
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by Andrew Leber
38 weeks ago
I’ve been back from Tunisia for a few days now, enjoying time with friends here in Cairo, discussing the game-altering announcement by President Morsi that Field Marshal Tantawi and a few others at the head of the military council would retire...
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by Andrew Leber
38 weeks ago
I find that a basic working knowledge of the 3 major religions to come out of the Middle East - Christianity, Judaism, Islam - is an important aspect of understanding the region I travel and study in, particularly in Egypt, where two of the three...
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by Maia Chao
39 weeks ago
This past month I attended a two-part "intercambio" between two radio stations- La X Musical and Doble Via. The idea of the intercambio was implemented by Cultural Survival, a non profit in the states that works with various stations, helping to get...
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by Keith Brown
39 weeks ago
In The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, his 2007 critique of top-down international development strategy, former World Bank economist William Easterly relates an anecdote about...
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by Austin Miller
40 weeks ago
Buenos Aires has been quite the mess this past week. Traffic jams for blocks and passengers packed into buses like sardines have provided vivid imagery for what happens when the subways are...
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by Rie Ohta
40 weeks ago
The longer I’m at this organization, the more revelations I’m having about my career in international development. Or the more I’m able to envision possible paths I could take, and see how they fit in with my morals & ethics about development...
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by Rich Ramirez
40 weeks ago
I first became interested in the concept of mayoral control in late 2011 when researching the campaign contributions to members of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) school board. Lax ethics laws have allowed HISD board members to...
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by Maya Manning
40 weeks ago
I cannot help but see strong similarities between Kichwa community life in the Ecuadorian Amazon and dorm life in United States universities. Some reasons why:
1. The houses: Kichwa houses are small and fit many people. People who have received...
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by Maia Chao
40 weeks ago
Last week I travelled to Tacaná, going there and back in one day, which totalled about 12 hours in many crowded chicken buses. The latter leg was spent standing, which turned out to be a lot more comfortable than sitting three to a seat, though the...
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by Rie Ohta
40 weeks ago
I’ve been working at GRAG for a few weeks now and I feel I can safely say that this is a really, really interesting, cool organization. And perhaps a model of work I’d like to do in the future. GRAG is a team of highly qualified people from a...
