- IICD Celebrates 25 years
- Why Africa?
- New Library at IICD
- We might as well move straight to the point
- You will face many problems and challenges
- Angola has Changed my life forever!
- Aurelio from One World University
- IICD went to the GLBT Expo
- I had never imagined
- I thought that if I were to lend money to the poor
- New Program
- I don’t know how to write a love poem
- Two months of work and a lifetime of learning
- The beginning was a confusion of feelings
- It matters not how strait the gate
- We went around calling people
- The Seed of Hope
- We cannot and must not close
- Jam Production in Manica
- TO BE FREE IS NOT MERELY
- I was confused because all the people
- Favela - the slums it may be to you
- I have been over 2 months in Brazil.
- The Project is amazing....
- We went around the city of São Paulo
- We must continuously remind one another and ourselves
- Don't wait for other people
- I love Mozambique....
- Many of the families do not have Latrines..
- It matters what you do!
- Lots of actions are being done in Brazil
- Amanda Hatchard from Canada...
- I was itching to get out and do something different
- What's our role in
- Master sculptures from Zimbabwe at IICD
- A 3-year activist teacher training program
- Growth is something we are all looking for...
- HIV/AIDS is preventable but apathy is fatal!
- Was I in Africa? Mozambique? Was I?
- If we fail to make solidarity
- Greetings from Lupe, Vale e Bernardo
- They believe all Asian people
- Walking through the market at Asseque
- Jun and I did an investigation
- The Amazon is incredible!
- I am working hard to make a difference...
- About my project - I fell in love with it!
- Mostly it has to do with STUFF
of International Cooperation and Development
Africa belongs to the so-called "Third World", but is in fact part of the same world as the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, or wherever you come from. However, the difference in living standards and opportunities is so enormous that it is hard to comprehend when living in a developed country.
created from donated bookshelves from Williamstown Library.
Your participation is needed in the struggle to get the AIDS epidemic under control in Southern Africa. Here the epidemic is out of control. UN Special Envoy Stephen Lewis calls AIDS "Mass Murder by Complacency".
but at the end you will get a bigger reward that only this experience can give you……. in my case it was…… humility.
I have now been back a little over a month. I have thought about writing this report or some kind of summary for some time now. Every time I think about it, I get scared I will not be able to express all that I have seen and felt.
I love my Universal History classes, so do the students. They think I'm a crazy teacher. but my Project Leader (Inger) told me that we need crazy teachers in Mozambique, so I think I'm ok.
in New York where we spoke to a lot of people.
that my six months in Lamego, Sofala state in Mozambique, would be such a great time in my life before getting there
then the villagers could be free from the grasp of the loan sharks. That is what I did. I never imagined that this would become my calling in life.
Fighting with the Poor - Activist Program will start February 2012. This 18 month program take a courageous and futuristic view of the world.
I don’t know how to write a love poem
Malawi is known worldwide as the Warm Heart of Africa, and I’m certain that it is really true, not because of the weather, since it’s very cold here right now, but because of the people who live here.
happiness, fear, longing, joy, sadness, and anxiety, a lot! Mozambique is very poor and that can be seen very clearly even before officially entering the country, even at the border.
How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
"Todos familias, vamos tirar barro no tanque por favor!!". This was the call to bring them to prepare their water tank (they call it " tanqui" – it`s like a dry swamp) for the forthcoming rains.
A Thought into the Future of a Young Generation in Quijingue Area - During the last month of my life in Lagoa da Barra, I often noticed that most of the young men in the community neither went to school nor worked.
our eyes to the realities of the world. Facing them can be quite frustrating and depressing and alone it is impossible. But only by doing something can we maintain our humanity and integrety!
I figured that if they know how to make jam they can get abundant Vitamin C anytime they want it over the tangerine season.
TO CAST OF ONE'S CHAINS BUT TO LIVE IN A WAY THAT RESPECTS AND ENHANCES THE FREEDOM OF OTHERS" NELSON MANDELA
were really happy even though they lived in very poor circumstances. But now I understand how happiness is something really simple.
but home sweet home it will forever be to me the traces you are trying to decinerate its already embedded within me
The experiences that I have had have been many, varied, and always interesting. We are in Quijingue in the state of Bahia.
I couldn’t have gone through a better experience… so far. The people are great, the work we are doing is excellent, and the place I am living is something else.
It was very different from our project area in the way that it was really organized and clean. I felt the big gap between the rich and poor in Brazil.
to exercise our minds, expand our narrow scale of thought, and learn about things that don't "appear" to directly effect us...
to tell you what to do. Do it yourself. Be proactive. Be open to learn from things and people around you (everything and everybody). Communicate. Share! Live! Experience!
I was so sad when I realized that I had to leave. And I am missing it so much.
Many children have repeated their grades and generally they stop going to school when they are 18 years old, even though they haven’t finish their study.
My mentality before was that it didn't matter whether or not I contributed because the world would go on with or without me.
by Humana People to People and all our Figting with the Poor teams.. See for yourself!
During my stay, I got to see first hand how in need the local people are. Working and living with these orphans ranging in age from 5-25 years old, changed me forever!
to experience the world and strengthen my character. After spending some time researching different volunteer opportunities, I came across the IICD website
John, Jennifer and I with IICD joined the Child Aid Project as members of Humana People to People in Quijingue about 1 month ago.
Friends Forever is arranging sales exhibitions "Master Sculptors of Zimbabwe and their Works" worldwide. Read more on http://www.friendsforeverzimbabwe.com
will start in September 2013 at IICD Michigan. This will be a teacher training ending with a distance BA Degree in Pedagogical Science from the “One World University” in Mozambique.
I nodded my head in agreement as this growth is something we are all looking for; especially those of us on the mountain. A deep want and need for growth.
Join the Fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa!!
It was just one month ago. I was there... in Mozambique... with them.
and a sense of social and environmental responsibiity the main driving force behind our human society then, quite simply, we will not survive.
former Development Instructors in Mozambique. Now married with one child!
can do some teakwando or judo or something. I guess they are used to watching it on movies from China. So, when I show some teakwando, they really like it!
You just want to buy some onions and it turns into a whole adventure. People yelling “amiga” or even “chinesa” or “branca”, wanting us to wave hi, acknowledge them
in Praça de Sé, Salvador, Brazil. We met the girl who was selling the acarajé, one of the traditional foods in Salvador, on the road.
We trecked through the jungle, talked to Indians, Saw a lot of animals, chickens, ducks, cows and monkey.
Here in Mozambique you will see that everything you do will have an impact in people or around you or your environment....
And now I am doing very fine here! But in the start, I worried about how I could be useful to the people here. Now I know!
In Angola it can be difficult to find variety of any kind…usually you go to an icecream stand and it’s the same flavor for all, or the same chocolate bars, crackers, whatever, wherever you go
