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Eckerd College, 2012

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Biology, Nursing/Health Care, Psychology/Psychiatry

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Swimming/Diving, Volleyball, Other

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Academic/Honors Club, Community Service, Leadership, Study Abroad, Other

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Northern Ireland Part 2

Belfast, Northern Ireland 3/30/10 11:00pm

Today Pat, a worker at another WAVE center, took us to a town about an hour north of Belfast to visit the center he works for. While there we met with the director of the arts program, Rita. Rita organizes and runs art classes for people who have been affected by the Troubles. Through these art classes, victims can express themselves as a sort of therapy. Rita had some works on display and some were very obviously made by people with

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Posted on June 17, 2010 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Northern Ireland Part 1

Hi all!

This past April, I went with my school on another service trip to Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland consists of the northern most part of the island and is technically a part of the United Kingdom. We worked with WAVE, an organization that provides counseling and therapeutic services to people who have been affected by the violence between the Protestants and the Catholics that has occurred in both Ireland and N

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Posted on May 11, 2010 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Ethiopia and Rwanda-Part 4

Kigali, Rwanda 1/21/10 5:00pm

We have arrived in Kigali. We are staying at an NGO compound for the next few days. We will be working with a group, Project Aiklah, which is in the process of building a school for promising young women, many who were orphaned by the gen

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Posted on February 20, 2010 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments

Ethiopia and Rwanda-Part 3

Mekele, Ethiopia 1/8/10 8:27pm

After arriving in Mekele we visited the Mekele School for the Blind. The compound was pretty big and had classrooms, dorms and a garden. The school needs help rebuilding a water tower, cleaning up the soccer field and teaching the childr

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Posted on February 20, 2010 at 4:33pm — 1 Comment