All About Team Peru: Summer Project Overview
Check out this video to learn more about Team Peru and the project opportunities for Summer 2012. Enjoy!
View ArticleA Breakthrough in Project NGO Network
Continuing from the work that January’s Team Peru students completed for the NGO Network, Katie, Caitlin, Nadine, and I have immersed ourselves in this ongoing, multilayered project. After a year of...
View ArticleHalfway there! What’s in store for the NGO Network in the second half of the...
Team Peru’s first site visit, on the way to Tiracancha. Photo credit Caitlin Casey We have spent a good chunk of the first half of the summer traveling around to different towns (as Monica noted in...
View ArticleA Different Perspective
Guest Post by Judy Mavroleon, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Conducting research and preparing case studies prior to actually participating in the Community Social Change workshop really...
View ArticleDo we need a perfect framework? Where does a poor one help?
Guest Post by Noah Brod, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 One of the takeaways from the past weekend for me has been the usefulness of even ad-hoc, informal frameworks. Our class ended up...
View ArticleLearning about Community Social Change through the work of the AASD
Guest Post by Kate DiMercurio, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Over the course of the semester, I worked with a group to write a case study of the Andean Alliance’s work with the Wiñay...
View ArticleWhat does “community” mean anyway?
Guest Post by Benedicte Gyllensten (Team Peru Summer 2012), Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 I spent two months as a part of Team Peru last summer, working on a photo project in the small...
View ArticleThe Role of a Change Agent (the AASD)
Guest Post by Sean Huber (Team Peru January 2013), Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Developing a framework for understanding how to repeat the process of community social change is...
View ArticleAn Opportunity to Question Assumptions
Guest Post by Anja Mondragon, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Community development: what does it mean to me? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple and really I’m not the community in...
View ArticleJ-Term Policy Class Conducts Research on Poverty & Connectivity
This January, a group of 25 students from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) traveled down to the Sacred Valley to put their semester-long theories into practice. What began as a...
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