Category: Students

Hola from Bolivia. I am spending my summer working at La Colónia Ecológica, an orphanage and afterschool center devoted to helping children and adolescents in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Founded in 2002 by Francisco Villanueva Torrez (Kiko) and Maria del Carmen Vargas Doria Medina (Carmen),  La Colónia serves over 114 children, 30 of whom live at the center and have either been abandoned or whose parents work long hours in low paying jobs. 

Currently completing my International Public Service Project (IPSP) in Accra, Ghana, I was delighted to find out that President Obama would be visiting the country during my time here. And of all the cities in all the countries of the world, he just completed his visit to city where I am currently spending the summer.

Mayor Mark Stodola and the City of Little Rock’s tourism committee recently released a new brochure listing the “Top Twelve” attractions in Little Rock. Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford is a member of that committee.

I am completing my international project at Nyaka AIDS Orphans School which located in Nyakagyezi village in southwestern Uganda. Nyaka serves more than 300 children who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS and with more than 2 million AIDS orphans in the country, the needs are very great.

But with some projects, like my work with the Amani Children’s home orphanage here in Moshi, Tanzania, the need is so tangible and so enveloping, it’s hard to maintain a professional distance. Perhaps we aren’t meant to.

Greetings from Sweden! As many of you know, I left in April (about a month earlier than my classmates) for my International Public Service Project with the Tällberg Foundation in Stockholm. Because I left early, I will also be done early. My project culminates with the Tällberg Forum, a gathering of more than 450 leaders from around the world in the village of Tällberg, about 3.5 hours northwest of Stockholm.