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Posted on March 31, 2011 by Mark Whitehouse in Media Development
As we approach World Press Freedom Day on May 3 and consider its theme of 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers, our thoughts naturally turn to the Middle East. Over the last four...
It’s Thursday afternoon in Berdyansk, Ukraine and the English club is discussing “Bread and Roses,” a poem honoring female strikers of the early 20th century. One young woman...
Posted on March 23, 2011 by W. Robert Pearson in Gender
Annual observances such as Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day are useful tools for highlighting some of the many accomplishments of women as well as drawing much-...
One of the things I love about my job is that I get to see the world through other people’s eyes. When exchange participants arrive in the US and encounter new things on campus for the...
Some of the American, oil-company-based engineers with whom I play basketball in Atyrau, Kazakhstan understand what “Peace Corps” service means—thanks in part to its...
Working in the Field Operations department at the headquarters of an international development organization like IREX is always a great challenge. By the time I load my email in the morning, my...
Not many students come to the library at the University of Cape Verde in the late afternoon on weekdays. The 2nd and 3rd years are in their classes and the 1st years have already gone home for...
Every once in a while, you have the opportunity to connect two points in your life. Mine began when I was a junior in high school and was selected as a participant for the...
Posted on March 4, 2011 by in Youth
We added the day’s receipts again and counted the money in the cash box one more time. They were equal. This was a milestone.
I’ve been back in the US for almost four years now, but the lessons and memories from 27 months in Ukraine continue to influence my perspective on life and my approach to development work...
