2013-01-04
Hello, my name is Bijan Sanchez, and I would just like to recount some of the reasoning’s behind the choices I have recently made that have eventually brought me here to the Andean, indigenous community of Morochos on my Global Citizen Year. The choice, the choice was always there; such a simple yes or no is granted for me...
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2013-01-04
Here’s a video of a day in my life, to go along with the photos in my previous post
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2013-01-04
So for the past two months I’ve been living with a completely indigenous family in the community of Mancheno, about an hour away from Riobamba, Chimborazo and working in an INFA center as well as a school where I teach English. I love my family; especially my grandmother who does a great job of making me feel like a...
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2013-01-04
A classroom full of ten year-old’s is daunting. They wiggle at their desks, leave their seats to wash slates, and argue over bits of chalk. In broken French, and then more fluidly Pulaar, I ask a few students to draw a face on the blackboard. Every student jumps from his decaying wooden desk, arms outstretched...
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2013-01-04
It’s actually been a while since that time on the Ecuadorian coast: October 14, 2012, the day I made it to Guayaquil, the largest and most modernized city in Ecuador. My supervisors and I at Fundación UTOPIA attended a three day agro-ecological forum in Guayaquil that highlighted the Food Sovereignty Movement in Ecuador. It was inspiring: I soaked in...
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2013-01-04
Here’s a glimpse of what my life is like here in Alausí, Chimborazo. More blog posts coming soon!
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I decided to make a video in order to better depict my site and apprenticeship. I currently live in Sandiara at my site, Centre de Formation et de Reinsertion Agricole de Sandiara (Agricultural Training and Reinsertion Center of Sandiara).CFRAS is an example of effective foreign aid, which is helping people better their lives to allow them to sustain themselves. In...
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