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IBD Ecuador: Galapagos to Quito
May 26, 2011
By: Nick Romero Team: Andean Health & Development Location: Pedro Vicente Maldondo, Ecuador Hair: Unintentionally sexy Mood: Playing hearts and drinking beers Hello from Ecuador! Emily Ewell, John Holgate, Eileen Chang and I have been working…
The NEW and IMPROVED Ashesi University
May 26, 2011
Greetings from Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana! We’re here helping Ashesi with their strategic planning for the next 10 years, and on Tuesday we had the privilege of seeing the manifestation of their first 10 years of planning, growth and…
Team Latrine Strikes Gold in Tanzania
May 26, 2011
Rather than talk about the amazing time we are having in Tanzania, including trips to Zanzibar, Mount Kilimanjaro & the Serengeti, I thought I would blog about something a little closer to home… Humans need to use the bathroom, so much in…
Team REBIOMA Reporting from Antananarivo
May 26, 2011
What would you do if you were named Chief Biodiversity Conservation Officer of the world and were handed $10 billion dollars (annual global spend on global conservation) to protect the world’s most biodiverse and vulnerable areas? You would…
Are you a Kojo?
May 26, 2011
For the past week and a half, my team (Jenni Tonti, Oscar Salinas, Fabio Povoa) and I have been busy working with Ashesi University College.Our project involves several initiatives including determining how Ashesi should expand their curriculum to…
IBD Ecuador: Hammerheads and Healthcare
May 26, 2011
IBD Ecuador has been a study in contrasts for our team: we swam 50 feet below the ocean’s surface and hiked along 13,000 ft peaks, conquered Class V rapids along an Amazonian tributary in the Andes and also struggled to climb a single flight of…
Weekend In Gabon
May 25, 2011
Our first weekend during IBD was a pre-trip two-day layover in Paris. Having spent the following week in Libreville, a city that’s a few notches down in the culture department from Paris (more precisely, infinity notches), we were ready to get…
Ability to Adapt
May 25, 2011
My team’s experience in IBD thus far has been a roller coaster. Back in January, Alex Montero, Taka Uenishi, Yonghan Cho and myself were all excited to learn that we would be working in Hungary. Over the next 3 months or so, we were making great…
Aravind in India
May 25, 2011
The Aravind Eye Care System can only be described as inspirational. As originally founded by the visionary Dr. Venkataswamy in 1976, its mission is to eliminate needless blindness, at least in India if not the world. Before coming to India and…
IBD in Mysore, India
May 25, 2011
Shannon, Leisha, Hans, and I came to Mysore, India after spending the first two days in Bangalore to meet our client. Mysore is the second biggest city in the state of Karnataka and lies in about 3 hours car ride from Bangalore. We are spending two…