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…
Category: Africa
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…
Sudan Bombing Its Own People
Story by Caroline Boschetto | boschetto.c@husky.neu.edu For half a decade, the Sudanese government has waged a violent war against its own citizens with bombings that target the southern provinces of South Kordofan and Blue Nile. These government bombings have caused widespread destruction, death, and displacement, according to Nuba Reports, a Sudan-based news source focused on the…
