2014-02-06
The following post comes form Jules Kaufman, father of Charlotte Kaufman (Ecuador ’14). In early January we visited Charlotte, who is living in a Quichua community 15 minutes on foot from Mesahualli, Ecuador. We had arranged to meet her in a small town on the Napo River to start our visit with a short stay...
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2014-01-25
My wife and I had the good fortune to visit our daughter, Jojo, in Florianopolis during the New Year’s holiday. We realize not every parent was able to visit their child and hope sharing our experiences will go a little way to setting your minds at ease about the work and impact of the Global...
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Micky Singh just got back from a ten day trip to Ecuador, where her son Neil is living as a 2014 Fellow. We recently visited our son, Neil, in Ecuador. He lives in a large farming community in Quingeo about an hour and a half from Cuenca. Seeing our son immersed in the local culture...
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2013-12-30
We returned last week from spending a week in Florianopolis, Brazil with our daughter Caroline (“Kat”) Blackburn, who is a 2014 fellow in the Brazil cohort. After spending nearly a week with her in Brazil, we are delighted to report that the Global Citizen Year experience has delivered above and beyond our expectations! In Brazil,...
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2013-03-18
The following is a blog by Pam Ricker, mother of Global Citizen Year Fellow Jordan Ricker, written after a trip to Senegal to visit her son. When my son Scott and I arrived in Dakar just before 6:00am, it was really 1:00am to us and we had only slept about two and a half...
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2012-07-09
Our new class of Fellows has arrived! Please join us in welcoming them and check out their introductory blog posts – and many more to come as they embark on their Global Citizen Year this August.
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2012-02-02
This post was written by Nancy Bales Anderson, mother of GCY Fellow Erica Anderson, following her trip to visit Erica in Senegal. How can you properly prepare yourself for a visit to a developing country? Iver and I thought we were prepared. Visiting the Travel Clinic, we had five immunizations, Typhoid doses, and had Malaria...
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