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Break-dancing and Education
Meg and Allison checked in with us today to let us know that the group spent the day at Tiny Toones, a Phnom Penh based NGO that uses break-dancing to engage, educate, and inspire Cambodian youth from impoverished neighborhoods. SStS students had a chance to learn about the NGO from Short, the general manager of...
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Hope Girls
Over the past five days or so, we’ve been working at the Himalayan Hope Home; lugging bricks up four flights of stairs, shoveling sand to make concrete, and getting to know the amazing girls who live there. These girls are orphans, mostly from Solukhumbu, and range in age from five to fifteen years old. We’ve...
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Conquering the Language Barrier
Communication is key no matter the location or the situation. This becomes even more prudent when in a foreign country and a simple miscommunication can affect the entirety of the travels. Coming into this trip I was not extremely confident in my Spanish speaking but I have learned how even the simplest and most discombobulated...
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