2019-05-30
Who doesn’t want to live by the UWC mission? After graduating from UWCRCN (1 year ago now) I felt encouraged and ready to change the hard realities of our daily lives. I was sure that in RCN, I got the necessary tools to make an impact in my home country and wherever I went. I...
Read More2019-04-20
For everyone thinking about taking a gap year in a foreign country: If you are taking a gap year make sure your baggage is full of expectations. So then you can break them along with all prejudices built by single stories. Only then you will start being surprised rather than only expecting. A gap year...
Read More2019-03-31
These are the following brief descriptions of women that had made me see the world in a different way. Women with their love and passion had brought back to me the energies to fight towards a more feminist world. This list goes far from these 10 women because there are many others. Also, their descriptions...
Read More2018-10-28
On October 3rd, Dakar elected their new major, Soham El Wardini, the first post-colonial female major in Senegal. This news opened our curiosity and interest in a new topic for our program, E-jáng radio. Senegalese women in Leadership positions. Alex and I agree that we needed to open our media space to give a voice...
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2018-10-06
(View from my house 05/10/2018 evening) A strong feeling of homesickness comes to my 19th birthday here in Senegal. Nostalgia fills me when I remember all my friends and family members in my 16th and last birthday in Ecuador. Nostalgia comes to my heart when I remember my last two birthdays; by the fjord, in...
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2018-10-03
Photo Credits: Kaitlyn (from left to right -Mamadou, Salomé, Alex, Fallou, Elaine, Ousmane) As an apprenticeship, Alex (an English fellow) and I started working on E-Jáng radio. E-Jáng radio is a fellow’s initiative that started last year. This radio show/program is a free platform for high-school and university English students around Thiés. In this show,...
Read More2018-08-14
So I decided to take a gap year, and my parents were not very happy with my decision in the begging. It took a while for them to understand and for me to learn how to stand up for what I believe. I believe in the power of learning from people and places. And...
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