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It’s a late Saturday evening. I’ve just landed at Bole International Airport, Ethiopia’s major airport based in Addis Ababa and can already smell the spices in the air. The SFD internship marks my seventh journey to Ethiopia – a beautiful country I’ve come to love and appreciate; rich with culture, ...

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Language as a barrier to intercultural effectiveness My first critical reflection piece is going to be based on what I have mentioned numerous times in my blog as the largest barrier to my effectiveness: language. The language barrier has prevented me from becoming very involved in training sessions in rural communities ...

Category: Kenya, On location 4 Comments »

I am currently a 3rd year Psychology student at St Francis Xavier University and just now coming to the end of a 4 month placement at a Zambian NGO called Women for Change. WfC s a gender rights advocacy organization that works predominantly in rural communities. I have been working ...

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Hello fellow SFDs. I have been maintaining a personal blog throughout my experinces here in Malawi. If you are interested, you can check it out at: http://sarahinmalawi.wikispaces.com

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November 12, 2009 It’s been awhile since I updated you on life in Nabob- so let me get you up to speed. Last week I was supposed to finish conducting interviews in Dandora, but my mobilization team from DEK surprised me by recruiting two more HIV positive women, since I had mentioned ...

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Life in Peru has been pretty interesting so far. I have managed to develop a network with another student in the ‘Students for Development’ program as well as with some other students working on different projects here in Peru. As all of us are women we have all be experiencing ...

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My name is Autumn and I am one of the students with funding through Students for Development (AUCC) to do an international placement this Fall. As a graduate student in Public Health I wanted to do an internship in an area of Global Health. Therefore, I am doing my internship ...

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[caption id="attachment_602" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="A bit of CARE"] [/caption] I thought I'd write a little update. Things are going much more smoothly and actually quite quickly lately. I've settled into a comfortable routine in Lima, and this city is ...

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Hello again readers! I hope you've all read my first post, because we discussed how things would work here. Today I am bringing you up to speed on my 5 weeks thus far. I'll give you some time to digest these two posts, then we'll keep moving from there. So even ...

Category: Bangladesh, On location Add Comment »

Hello Readers! [caption id="attachment_592" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="One of those sunrises I'm talking about"][/caption] Welcome to my blog! Before we get too deep into this reader-writer relationship I'd like to share a couple of things. First of all, you should ...

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