The Long and Winding Trail
Nine sleepy Fords departed bright and early from HEPAC making their way to cross the border back into the United States. We were struck by the enormous privilege that belonged to us as American...
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“Somos realistas, y hagamos lo imposible.” We are realists, and we will do the impossible. On Saturday morning, the group met with a panel of youth activists living and working in Tucson. Each of the...
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Surprises while learning about and amidst change
Only a few days after returning from two weeks in Chile, and I’m already back at Haverford for the spring semester. Thanks to a grant from the CPGC, I spent the second half of my winter break in Viña...
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Education Budget Action Days
PCCY (Public Citizens for Children and Youth) still has a few education budget action days coming up! Join them in Philly on Wednesday, April 22, Wednesday, May 13, Tuesday, June 23, or Tuesday, June...
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Making Movies; Making Beds
My friend David told me during the last movie that we worked on together (a short film called My Life and the Times of Mr. Messado) that in an interview Hayao Miyazaki said that making movies is the...
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HITAP: Settling Down
I never know how to start these things… Introduction Take 1: “Twenty-one hours later and I was finally at Suvarnabhumi Airport. I was hoping to get into the country before it got dark since I had no...
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Settling into Rio Blanco, Nicaragua: My Musings
I sit here typing this email out on my phone as the rain pounds on the tin roof of our house. It’s so defining that my attempt to listen to NPR pod casts was thwarted because the words were drown out...
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Death by Moped and Other Tales
It’s been three weeks since I landed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia amidst a haze of jetlag, dust, and sweltering 104F humidity. Some things I have learned: 1.) Death by moped (“moto”) is a real danger that...
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Filming Ambler Food Co-op
(I must parenthetically begin by saying that, unfortunately, my underground/indie wordpress was coopted by the corporate CPGC machine. Consequently, it is now being hosted through their website, which,...
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Hope or horror? Looking in on the Danish prison system and out onto America
This is Hayley (BMC ’15), checking in from Copenhagen, Denmark where I’m conducting research on the Danish prison system as a part of the Senior Bridge program! It is an almost surreal experience,...
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Team ¨Los Quinchos¨ in San Marcos, Nicaragua
Better late than never? As we sit down to write our first blog entry about our summer internship in San Marcos, Nicaragua, it is worth acknowledging that we have already arrived at the half-way point...
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Ojos bien abiertos (Eyes Wide Open©)
By Annie Kelly ’16 and Youkun Zhou ’17 A lot of interesting people find themselves at Ignacio Mariscal 132 in Mexico City. Casa de los Amigos is an international center for peace and understanding, or...
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The Nicaragua Delegation (9 weeks late)
Okay, so for the sake of full transparency, we have slacked on this blog. We are posting now, with five days left in Nicaragua, out of sheer guilt. But the main reason we haven’t posted lies in the...
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An average day in Los Quinchos, Nicaragua?
Is it possible to speak of an average or regular day at Los Quinchos? Each day when we meet up to walk across town into work, we know that our expectations and previous experiences will serve at most...
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Los Quinchos — An Organizational Low-down
This summer, we are working as volunteers at Los Quinchos, a Nicaraguan non-profit organization that seeks to rehabilitate and offer hospitality to abandoned and mistreated street children from...
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March 6-12 American Indian health in AZ and NM
On Sunday, March 6, Prof. Kaye Edwards and five students from the Senior Seminar in Health Studies will fly to Phoenix to begin a six day excursion in Arizona and New Mexico, where they will visit...
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Sunday dinner in Tempe
This photo was taken after a wonderful dinner at Caffee Boa in Tempe, where we feasted on fresh pasta dishes followed by chocolate chip cookies. We were privileged to meet with Travis Lane and Waquin...
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Gallup, NM
A highlight of today was our visit to the Community Pantry, in Gallup, New Mexico. The Community Pantry provides many services to those experiencing hunger, including monthly food deliveries, fresh...
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Museum and IHS Visit
I’m a little late on posting but we’ve had a super busy (in the best way possible) week. Our first full day (Monday, March 11) consisted of visiting the Heard Museum and then the Phoenix Indian Medical...
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