Posts from DukeEngage Independent Project in Community Development/Outreach from 2017

I’ve never been in a house with no floors. That is, I had never been in such a house until …

Palliative care is often abridged to ‘end-of-life care’. It’s how the field was first introduced to me. I heard these …

One of the goals of WindAid was to give the volunteers the opportunity to explore the people and culture throughout …

My final day in Costa Rica was marked with many tearful goodbyes and promises of visits and staying in touch. …

My DukeEngage project in Fiji is over, so this will be my last blog post. There are three sections here, …

Traveling from the north Atlantic to the south Pacific, Fiji (GMT +12) was my fourth time zone within four days. …

There is always something unnerving about being in a place where one does not speak the language. There is always …

“Do you understand?” is a question that marked the first few weeks of my DukeEngage Experience more than any other. …

This summer I am volunteering at an organization, WindAid, that is building wind turbines to bring electricity to rural villages …

I wanted to start this blog post with the words “My first few days in Costa Rica have been____,” but …