While everyone on the Bolivia team came here with the same goals, we (Lily and Sydney) were sent with a specific task: to collect data regarding the health and sanitation of the rural community we visited in the Amazon. Shoulder to shoulder worked alongside the epidemiology department at Wayne State University (located in Detroit,Mi) to...
Last night was the long-awaited homestay. I had been looking forward to it for a while and was really excited the day of. I was a little disappointed to learn that I was not with one of my friends and instead with Jim. However, it was a very lovely experience for the both of us....
Working Shoulder to Shoulder with The Small World Nepal
Today we put in the work for the kids. We started off the day with some pancakes from Dawa and then had a nice hike to a school nearby where we engaged with a 6th grade class by exchanging songs and knowledge. This is a poem about the experience. In Solukhumbu’s morning chill, We climbed...