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Focus on Bolivia and Brazil

Christina Varga, GlobeCampus editor, June 14, 2010 at 1:19 PM

Please meet your new Global Citizens bloggers:

 

  Anthony Lott

Anthony Lott is in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, working as an English teacher for the summer through Procavida, a non-profit organization seeking to improve the quality of life in Bolivia through health, education, technology, and social advances. He is teaching English to low-income students, and later will teach school teachers. With a physiology degree from the University of Alberta, he will be going to medical school there in the fall.

 

  Sasha Sears

Sasha Sears is doing a one-year internship in Brazil with Vale, a mining and energy company, as a human resources analyst. Among other things, she is managing the company's international exchange education programs and is living in one of the most violent cities in the world: Rio de Janeiro. She has a global business management degree from Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

  

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Two new bloggers to start soon

staff, June 10, 2010 at 12:53 PM

Two new bloggers will begin their summer posts very soon. Stay tuned...

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Images from Bangladesh and Kenya

Education with an international perspective, May 25, 2009 at 2:13 PM

Follow Raksha and Helen during their traineeships throughout the summer of 2009.

 

Raksha Vasudevan RAKSHA VASUDEVAN

 

Raksha Vasudevan is in Bangladesh on an internship with that country's Association for Social Advancement (BASA), which helps people in poor communities through the use of microcredit and sustainable development projects.
Raksha, has just graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing. Born in India and raised in Oman and Canada, she chose Bangladesh for her internship due to its track record on innovation in the not-for-profit sector.

 

 

 

Helen HsuHELEN HSU

 

Helen Hsu is in Kenya as an intern with the Family Health Options Kenya NGO in their Youth Centre-Nairobi division, helping educate inhabitants of a Nairobi ghetto on issues such as HIV/AIDS and business/entrepreneurial skills.
Born in Taiwan and raised in Canada, Helen has just finished the second year of her degree in Cognitive Science at McGill University in Montreal.

 

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