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Summer of a life time. My name is Ashley Caulier, and I am a fourth year nursing student from the University of Prince Edward Island, currently doing a summer internship in a rural town called Kiirua, located in Kenya, Africa. We arrived in Kenya over two months ago. I was joined ...

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“You’re either an Africa person, or an Asia person”. My friend Elizabeth posits her theory as we sit poolside at Hotel Credo. Lindsey, my housemate, immediately responds with a forceful: “I’m so an Asia person”. We all laugh, because this scene is unfolding in Rwanda, the heart of Africa. As for ...

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I write this post from my home back in Canada a week after my return from Ghana. I write from a place of comfort of familiarity and of anonymity. I was based in Accra from May until August; I was placed with an organization called Legal Resources Centre, Ghana. The ...

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Three months in honduras working for a non governmental organization working with communities affected by Canadian mining operations during a military coup has thrown me into latin america politics unlike any course, conversation or rereads of Galeano could have ever, ever done. The mining issue here in Honduras seems ...

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The first day I arrived at the office of the Refugee Law Project back in May, there was no power. Computers could not be accessed to see the clients' files. Reports could not be drafted. So we waited and chatted until it returned. I am almost through with my time in ...

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I'm sitting in my quaint little compound on a Saturday morning, enjoying some time to myself before noon hits and the familiarities of life in Kenya begin. This has been the first day since we've been here that we haven't been up and on the go before 8 or 9am. Finding it ...

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Much of my work here in Mumbai was to be based in research side, studying the topic of neonatal and maternal health. I anticipated long hours in the library at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences looking at studies and data. Still after a week or two of it I ...

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One issue that I have heard time and time again is that politicians here in Ghana use youths for campaigning and once elected they tend to disappear.  Though there is much optimism in the youths of Ghana I have heard that in the nations that border us, Togo, Cote D'Ivoire, ...

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The longer I am in Zambia the more I learn about the Zambians relationship with development workers and foreigners in general. It appears as though there has developed a general attitude of entitlement. People expect you to help them. Even when you do they do not appear to be thankful ...

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Hey guys! My name is Rianne, and I am a fourth year nursing student from UPEI, doing my internship in a small town called Kiirua, in Kenya. There are four of us from my class, and we are working as student nurses at a Mission Hospital here. We are working 5 ...

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