Archive 2019

Sep 17

Learning to Question the Lightning by Isabel Rosenbaum (A’21)

by tuftsigl

On my commute to work every day this summer, I would pass the walls of abandoned buildings and billboards where people had written No Borders. No Human Is Illegal. EU, Where Are You? Similar phrases characterized much of the graffiti found in Mytilene’s side streets and on café bathroom doors.

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Sep 16
Tufts International Development

Safeguarding the E-library Program’s Sustainability by Mario Lagnese (A’20)

by tuftsigl

Our Tufts International Development (TID) group had just finished up our work in San Jose de Minas, a small town located 50 miles north of Quito, Ecuador. During our time in Minas, we were able to check in on one of our current projects at Colegio San Jose de Minas, the local K-12 school.

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Sep 13
Empower

Stories from the Field by Geoffrey Tam (F’20)

by jtijssen

During my first stakeholder meeting with Kwangu Kwako, Ltd. (KKL), I had the opportunity to meet Milka Achieng, a charismatic young woman who has grown up in Kibera’s Gatwekera neighborhood. Kibera is referred by many as Africa’s largest slum with an estimated population of around 250,000 people.

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