Upcoming InsideOut Project with SKIP

May 22, 2013

SKIP - Supporting Kids In Peru, Peru
Barclay Martin

Succinctly, “an Inside Out Group Action is one or several group leaders using 5 or more portraits to make a statement for a cause they feel passionate about. These portraits will be printed as posters and wheat pasted in the location of their choice. Group leaders can collect and share the personal stories behind each portrait, spread their message over social networking, attract media attention, and create video content to strengthen their statement . . . INSIDE OUT is about you, the participant. You choose the message. You take the portraits. You paste the images. We help you along the way” (Inside Out Group Action Guidelines: 2).                                            ...

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Upcoming InsideOut Project with SKIP

May 22, 2013

SKIP - Supporting Kids In Peru, Peru
Barclay Martin

Succinctly, “an Inside Out Group Action is one or several group leaders using 5 or more portraits to make a statement for a cause they feel passionate about. These portraits will be printed as posters and wheat pasted in the location of their choice. Group leaders can collect and share the personal stories behind each portrait, spread their message over social networking, attract media attention, and create video content to strengthen their statement . . . INSIDE OUT is about you, the participant. You choose the message. You take the portraits. You paste the images. We help you along the way” (Inside Out Group Action Guidelines: 2).                                            ...

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Upcoming InsideOut Project with SKIP

May 22, 2013

SKIP - Supporting Kids In Peru, Peru
Barclay Martin

Succinctly, “an Inside Out Group Action is one or several group leaders using 5 or more portraits to make a statement for a cause they feel passionate about. These portraits will be printed as posters and wheat pasted in the location of their choice. Group leaders can collect and share the personal stories behind each portrait, spread their message over social networking, attract media attention, and create video content to strengthen their statement . . . INSIDE OUT is about you, the participant. You choose the message. You take the portraits. You paste the images. We help you along the way” (Inside Out Group Action Guidelines: 2).                                            ...

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Fortune Telling

May 22, 2013

SKIP - Supporting Kids In Peru, Peru
Barclay Martin

When people ask about my life, the conversation usually ends with a pause then this statement; “I’m jealous, I wish I could travel.” I don’t know how you feel about fortune-tellers, but I once had my palm read by a large bespectacled man, tucked in the back of a new age shop. He peered deep into my palm and grumbled, “nope, I don’t see any travel in your life.” Making the incense swirl into mad spirals, I hurried away from the table, angry that some stranger could say such an awful thing about my life. Then I set out to prove him wrong. I’ve never had much money, but I’ve always had dreams, and if those prove to be stronger, than you can accomplish anything. “I wish I...

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Nourish International Visits UPAVIM

May 22, 2013

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May 21, 2013

European Disaster Volunteers, Philippines
Nicole Paredes

I arrived about three weeks ago to volunteer at EDV’s here in the Philippines. EDV is momentarily supporting a local organisation called Buklod Tao which is focused on helping people in areas vulnerable to flooding and disasters by running disaster risk reduction and prevention management. From the very first moment I felt very welcomed and integrated in the EDV team. The atmosphere is comfortable and pleasant. We are working during the day either in the office or directly on site at Buklod Tao, and relaxing in the evening and just having a good time. But not only the EDV team makes me feel so comfortable here, it is as well the experience with the locals and the Filipinos as such. Always helpful and smiling, making your stay as much as...

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The Preparation

May 20, 2013

            I still remember during my freshman orientation at FSU that I heard about study abroad programs and internships in other countries and I was amazed by how great it sounded. I thought that it would be impossible for me to do because of the expense. When I went to the Omprakash informational meeting I saw it as an opportunity to go somewhere and learn something new; something that I could not learn here. It started to become a reality when I found a partner that was a great match to what I wanted to do.  In Hospital Escuela in Leon, Nicaragua I was offered an opportunity to help out with patients. Speaking Spanish was a great advantage because I spoke to them...

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A Life of Opposites (Una Vida de Opuestos)

May 20, 2013

Asociacion CREAR, Costa Rica
Scooter Stein

I’ve lived and traveled a few times in developing nations, and I always end up thinking about how that differs from my life in the United States. Before going further, I’d like to offer a few clarifications. The first clarification is that Costa Rica is not what you think of as a developing nation; compared to its Central American compatriots, Costa Rica’s standards of living overall fare much better than its northern neighbors, on a similar level to that of Panamá to the south. However, we also cannot fool ourselves to think that this nation is on par with the United States; Costa Rica is nice, yet its infrastructure does not compare with that of the most developed nations in the world. With this entry, I just want to focus...

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Honduras Child Alliance

May 20, 2013

Honduras Child Alliance, Honduras
Adam Shepard

When I’m seventy, my grandchildren, all six or seven of them, will sit around my La-Z-Boy at Christmas, and they will want to hear stories about my one-year journey. The aroma of a honey-glazed ham and turkey and green-bean casserole and stuffing and cheesy hash browns and mashed potatoes drifts softly into the living room from grandma’s kitchen. Two pies—pecan, my favorite, and pumpkin, which I don’t care for—are cooling out back on the screened-in porch. And my grandchildren will ask me questions. “Why is it,” one of them will ask looking at an old photo, probably one of me casually posing with my muscles flexed atop a Maya ruin, “that you used to be young and handsome and now you’re old and wrinkled?” “This is the circle of life,” I will...

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April 19 - 21 - Young People Shaping the World

May 20, 2013

United World College Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Roisin Shannon

One of the great things you get to do at UWC Costa Rica is act as a guide and mentor to young people who really want to make a difference to the world.  During March and April, I met once or twice a week with Kate, Lutfe, Elisa and Chisomo and helped them prepare for an Association of American Schools in South America regional Global Initiatives Network conference. Together we choose to focus on addressing cultural conflict and peace transformation using examples from within our own school and their personal experience.  Mostly my job was to keep the preparations moving along and everyone engaged in the process; to ask the right questions at the right time – the big ideas and all the real hard work came from the students. ...

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