I could not have planned my internship timing better myself. In general in my life at this time with everything I’ve learned in school but also the practical dates I arrived and am departing. Just another small glimpse at the sovereignty and goodness of God. My last week just happened to correspond with CKP Boot [...]
Greetings! Here’s a word from a member of my research team who worked on the project in Kenya this summer. Enjoy! From Stephanie Allen… Members of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Poverty Initiative, Thank you so much for your generous donation to our community development project in Kenya this summer! Working on the Qualitative and Qualitative Agroecological [...]
I am starting to hear more about the lives of my students outside of class. For most of my time here, it seems that those parts of their lives have stayed well hidden. While I have had a vague perception of what their homes and neighborhoods are like, for the last week or so, little [...]
DC Central Kitchen was approached by people who produced a documentary called Truck Farms (http://www.truckfarm.org/) to see if they wanted to join the movement and have a truck farm of their own. DCCK partnered with USDA to have a mobile garden to use as an educational tool for students around town. They take the truck [...]
It hit me this morning on my metro ride into the district that I have exactly one month left of this internship experience. It’s more than a job, more than something to do to fill my summer, more than something to add to my resume. It really is an experience, full of ups and downs, [...]
For the past year or more I have been interested in finding a way to merge my passion for design, and my hopes of making a difference in the world. What I did not know, however, was the growing trend of ‘social business’ and how relevant it is to what I want to do with [...]
The greatest part about working for the Community Gardens Initiative is that every day is completely different than the day before. Forget about sitting in a cubicle, making copies or running coffee to my boss. Instead at least two or three times a week, I get the privilege of waking up before any of my [...]
With field work concluded, I have the chance to sit back and consider with gratitude all we were able to accomplish in such a short time in Kenya. In the final weeks of research, our marvelous research team finished up all the final interviews of the elder farmers of Bethlehem Home. We continued to learn [...]
For the past two weeks, we have been able to go on field trips that were outdoors and far from the neighborhoods of most of my students. And it has been an eye opening experience. Last Friday, we went to Centennial Park in Maryland for our all-LPTM field trip. Despite being in the middle of [...]
It’s one thing to talk about how much I thought I would learn this summer and it’s another totally different thing to realize how much I am actually learning. I am amazed at the kindness that the people I work with posses. How generous and positive they are. Each of them is dedicated to their [...]
