Her name is Milaine Atimel, and she is 18 months old. I met her at Sister Rosanna’s clinic when I had gone there to take some pictures and help out where I could. I sat in the clinic with Turbo (Rodrigue Eboko Mbele is the man that takes care of things for me in Cameroon, he is a colleague and friend.) for about 30 minutes before a Sister came to ask me if I wanted to see a girl that was taking the products that I had brought from Health Partners. Of course I went to see the little girl ...

Scholars have written about the problems of developing countries, outlining their characteristics as if it were one homogenous mass, despite the differences in income, values and culture from one nation to the other. As a common characteristic, life in developing countries and Africa in particular is described in the most demeaning terms, portraying living conditions as unbearable. Developing countries have variously been called backward, underdeveloped, third world. Sometimes the people of such countries are said to be unhappy, poor, and primitive. To support this claim, statistics of income per capita and other material goods are manipulated, and estimates of the level ...




 Good or bad, we will all walk away with something. Regardless of whether it’s a loss or a gain we will never be the same person again. April, 2007, my family and I went through one tough experience that took every ounce of our strength and every inch of our faith to survive. I have to say that this was the most emotionally draining time my family and I had gone through. At birth, my sister Karen had a tiny hole in her heart. The doctors said not to panic and that she would eventually outgrow it. My parents ...

The opportunity of an internship overseas holds many prospects for a student – adventure, cultural submersion, field experience, and a classroom where learning becomes practical and hands on. Part of my requirements as a student in the Master’s of Human Security and Peace-building program (MAHSP), was to engage in an internship, and this past August I departed on what would become an integral part of my career as a student and development worker. Sent to Zimbabwe to work in the area of women’s rights, I was quickly re-directed to Swaziland after only three weeks in the city of Harare. ...

"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails." ~ Nelson Mandela Nepal: Despite being one of the worlds’ most polluted, war-torn, and poverty-stricken cities, Kathmandu has its fair share of tourist attractions. Spiritual seekers flock to the Boudinath neighborhood, which today has more of a Tibetan Buddhist feel than Lhasa in Tibet. Trekkers heading for the Himalayas pass through town in droves, and the last vestiges of pure hippy culture can be found in the Thamel tourist district, where you can still buy temple hash in the streets, and the ghosts of Jimmy Hendrix and ...