Hello everyone,
It may be difficult to get a chance for everyone in the class to talk to one another and get a sense of where you're coming form. For this reason, I suggest that everyone use this post to provide some basic information on yourselves to introduce yourself to the rest of the class.
Here's a starter!
Name: Carlos Toriello
Past Experience and Future Plans:
- Nourish International: Guatemala 2007 Project Leader, Fall 2007 Co-chair, Mexico 2008 and 2009 Adviser, Brazil 2008 Participant, National Office Project Analyst
- Fulbright Scholarship (hopefully!): develop a comparative study of the Micro-Consignment model being replicated in Ecuador from Guatemala by CES.
Expectation(s) for the course: a constantly challenging and sincere dialogue between student leaders were we learn as much as possible from one anothers perspectives and experiences. A desire from students to share their (and listen to others) honest opinions. Clarification and greater understanding of what actors and thought leaders in the field are doing and how I can be a part of it.
There you go. Please share yours as well and be sure to review others.
See you Thursday!
3 comments:
Name: Diana Iglesias
Past Experience and Future Plans:
Nourish International: I have been a member since Fall of 2007, and was a participant on the 2008 Honduras Food Sovereignty Project.
Artists Striving to End Poverty: I volunteered as a student leader during high school and the summers of 2007/2008, providing an arts-in-action experience to Homestead, FL youth faced with problems of gang violence, domestic abuse/violence, drug abuse, and poverty. Summer experiences brought in teachers from institutions such as the Juilliard School to teach drama, dance, music, and visual art.
Why I am in the course: Well, I have idolized Carlos since I met him.
Kidding. Mostly. But seriously, I feel like I have a pathetic level of knowledge about the writers that have shaped different theories surrounding development and "solutions" to the reduction of poverty. So, here I am.
Expectation(s) for the course: I am really pumped to meet other Tar Heels who typically surround themselves with the same interests but who I feel I would not otherwise meet. Also, Graham Memorial is going to be fantastic. I vote class by the fireplace.
Name: Jenny Grubb
Past Experiences and future plans:
Agape Medical Center in Moscow, Russia: I volunteered this past summer in Russia working with orphanages throughout many parts of Russia, as well as helping to distribute medical supplies and other services to people living in poverty.
I have also done a lot of stuff locally, I have been volunteering with Interfaith Council for Social Service and the local homeless shelters for the past 3 years. Most of my efforts have been at hunger relief and building relationships with individuals.
In the future I hope to use my nutrition degree to work internationally to help with the global hunger crisis as well as continue working in orphanages to promote health and wellness.
Why I am in this course: I was just so excited to get together with more students who share a passion for people and the betterment of society, like I do. Like Diana said, I am also interested in learning about the solutions to global poverty and where we as college students fit into that spectrum.
Expectation(s) for the course:
I am really really excited to hear from everyone and I look forward to everyone contributing. I believe that everyone's experiences and opinions will be really valuable for me both now and in the future.
Name: Kimmie Garner
Past Experience and Future Plans:
To be honest, I have not done poverty work on an international basis; I have mostly worked in the local community.
Currently, I am a MANO tutor (Women Advancing Towards New Opportunities) and work with my student from Mexico twice a week on her English acquisition.
I am also the co-chair of the APPLES Service-Learning Initiative Committee. This program is for incoming first-year students and takes place right before school begins to introduce first-years to the issues within the Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham communities. We are currently working with the Boys and Girls Club Resource Committee to begin the initial stages of fundraising for a Boys and Girls Club here in Chapel Hill.
My first experience with international volunteering will take place over Spring Break when I travel to the Dominican Republic with the Campus Y group Las Ninas Madelaes. Las Ninas is a girls shelter in the Dominican and we will be going to help renovate their current home, begin a garden, and take part in different workshops with the girls that focus on self-esteem and health and environmental awareness.
In the future, I hope to work with and empower women and children both in the U.S. and abroad. I would like to use the grassroots model I have used thus far in college to do this and provide them with greater means of empowerment, whether that be access to education or contraceptives. I know that is so vague, but that's the best I can do right now!
Why I am in the course: I have worked with and seen poverty on a local level, but I haven't really been exposed to poverty on an international level, besides what I have read for classes and in my spare time. I would like to be exposed to these models for poverty alleviation on the international level and learn the basic beliefs behind poverty work.
Expectations for the course: I am just so excited to be in a group full of their own opinions and experiences about poverty and the international world. I think this different mix of perspectives will be so essential in my exposure to his field.
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