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Posted on August 12, 2011 - W. Robert Pearson in Youth

The UN’s International Year of Youth reminds all of us in the development community of the value of youth contributions to a...

As a volunteer in Russia, I was frequently asked to speak to youth and educators about community service in the United States. Preparing for these presentations, I reflected on the well-accepted...

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...

Posted on March 4, 2011 - 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.

Ashley with Freedom Compound Community School

Maybe it was just luck that my bicycle tire blew out right in front of the bike repair stand in the Freedom Compound shanty town.

Teachers in the Global Fight Against AIDS

There are 33.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the world. Today is World AIDS Day - a day of opportunity to raise awareness and educate about the disease which affects all nations...

A Conversation with a Ghanaian Teacher

Raphael Aidoo-Taylor, a Ghanaian alumnus of the Teaching Excellence And Achievement Program (TEA), discusses how the TEA program has impacted his teaching.

Rwanda figured prominently in my graduate school courses on conflict and development, so I was eager to see for myself the country I had read and written so much about.

Kristin Laboe with her students in Haiti

Haitian youth are leaders. They have a large role to play as their country rebuilds.