By Kathleen Brody Morocco is the place that is the most unlike home that I have ever visited and, for that reason, perhaps the most valuable travel experience I have had to date. Although astoundingly beautiful, it wasn’t just the vibrant colors or fragrant scents of Marrakech’s medina, mosaics, or mint tea that entranced me—it…
Category: Africa
Changing Lives through Entrepreneurship
By Tuesday Nolen, Dialogue of Civilizations If you listen to the media these days, it seems like the whole world is going up in flames. There is constant yelling from every direction whenever a big topic comes up in conversation. There has been no little amount of arguing in the limelight about systemic problems, which…
Gaining Perspective through Moroccan Village Life
by Kelsey Lawler, Dialogue of Civilizations In the High Atlas Mountains, a two hour bus ride outside Marrakech, a group of Northeastern students prepared to hike six hours to the tiny village of Tidli. We were on the Economic and Cultural Dynamics of Muslim Immigration program traversing Morocco, the Netherlands, and France for four weeks,…
Living With Water Shortage in Cape Town
By Fernanda Ortiz, Global Co-op I have always taken water for granted. Only when I return home to Mexico do I ever think twice about water’s cleanliness and safety, but I have never imagined what life would be like with water restrictions, or even no water at all. For my second co-op, I decided to…
Education: Privilege or a Human Right?
By Elena Crouch Global Co-op Students of Modzi. Photo courtesy of Modzi.org I would say with certainty that I am privileged. “Privilege” is a hot-button term that was thrown around incessantly during the most recent US elections and continues even now in the post-election world. Politics, opinions, aside—I am incredibly lucky to have been born…
Education: Privilege or a Human Right?
Story by Elena Crouch Growing up, I didn’t truly appreciate the opportunity, or the value, of receiving an education. My parents didn’t have to choose which of their two daughters would be able to attend secondary school. It didn’t matter how much money my family had, it didn’t matter that my sister and I were both female:…
Job Title: Nursing Assistant or Friend?
Story by Caitlin Do I had no idea what to expect when I landed in Cape Town. The only pictures I had in my head were the ones I had found online, specifically of the hospital in which I’d be interning with, as well as the home that I’d be living in. I couldn’t have…
You Don’t Know Anything, Try to Learn Something: Reflecting on My Time in Burundi
Story by Peter Vaselkiv On my flight to Bujumbura, I had so many things going around in my head I was almost numb from trying to figure out what to expect. Looking back on my time in Burundi, it occurs to me now that trying to frame something before having feet on the ground is…
It Takes A Village: I am. You are.
Story by Francesca Batault Growing up in South Africa has undoubtedly been one of the most enriching and empowering experiences of my life; there is little that South Africa does not offer. School mornings began with the warm embrace of the African sun, class excursions took us to the heart of Soweto and the depths…
Change Starts With One
Story by Anna Butler, Founder of modzi, NU ‘14 | anna@modzi.org Photo by Marisa Kallenberger | kallenberger.m@husky.neu.edu Having been a student at Northeastern’s Boston campus for a total of three semesters, the majority of my studies were spent familiarizing myself with the global challenges I sought to alleviate. I strove to create as many experiential opportunities as possible, and…
Fear into Fortitude: Interfaith Peacebuilding Lessons from Liberia
Story by Sydne Mass | mass.sy@husky.neu.edu One morning in 2003, Leymah Gbowee awoke from a dream that would change the course of her country’s history and her life. Liberia had been in the midst of its second civil war for four years. The death toll would rise to 250 thousand people, with one million internally displaced…
Answering the Questions Behind Boko Haram
Story by Devin Windelspecht | windelspecht.d@husky.neu.edu On February 1st, 2016, events in Nigeria once again seized global headlines. Fighters from Boko Haram, West Africa’s most notorious and deadly militant group, stormed the small town of Dalori in the northeast of the country, killing 86 people, including children. Horror stories emerged of militants firebombing houses with people…
