A powerful video from the NGO ' The Girl Effect' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8xgF0JtVg - and I think its message is quite accurate too. And another pretty good one (bit fast to read) by the same organisation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvmE4_KMNw

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Hi everyone, Autumnal greetings from Berlin!! I'm living here til December completing my FINAL co-op term! Jupi! Anyway just wanted to point you towards an interesting website before I forget. I shared my first nights in Lilongwe with a very nice, middle-aged woman called Karen, who graduated from the University of Toronto ...

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Having gotten used to darkness by 6 o'clock, I am amazed to have daylight until 9 in the evening here. At 5:30 last week, you'd have found me basking outside in the sunlight - giddy and in utter disbelief that the rays still beat down strength and warmth - and ...

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A few days back in the northern hemisphere and my time in Malawi seems light years away. Comparing my life there in southern Africa and here on holiday in the UK and is quite surreal. Check out www.studentswithoutborders.ca/emily-pittman/ for more on my readaptation to the Western world!

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Before I left Canada for Malawi, I was warned again and again that it would take some time for me to get used to the Malawian diet. I took my Dukoral vaccination against traveller’s diarrhoea and cholera and was convinced that I’d be safe from any food impertinent enough to ...

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Caribou ('Welcome!' in Swahili and other Bantu languages, such as Chichewa) to my blog! My name is Emily and I have just wrapped up a placement at Dzaleka Refugee Camp about an hour outside of Lilongwe. On my last day in Malawi, my colleagues heartily thanked me for coming to ...

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