leadership in global community.
Madeline Mendoza (IF'10, Nicaragua) on March 21st, 2013Recently, I was in Antigua, Guatemala gathered with all of the iLEAP Central America fellows. We shared stories, joys, triumphs, struggles, but mostly HOPE. Yes, hope is one of the countless intangible things I’ve got from my experience with the iLEAP program, but how do you explain it? Where do you find the right words to describe [...]
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Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on February 21st, 2013The coastal community I was doing household survey on is in danger of being demolished to give way to a beach resort. The fishing households in this community earn, on the average $1,243.30 every year or $3.40 for a 7-hour fishing day. This is just one example of thousands of coastal communities that are being [...]
Kerani Mitchell on February 5th, 2013Looking forward to the iLEAP Social Innovation Forum, Japan 2013 iLEAP’s annual 10-day Social Innovation Forum Japan (SIFJ) kicks off this week almost two years after the 3/11/11 tsunami devastatingly altered the communities and hearts of those living in northern Japan. Recalling that day, as an American with few personal ties to Japan, most of [...]
joany on January 19th, 2013Being here at iLEAP in Seattle, has been so exciting, full of emotions, learnings, sharings. Facing many challenges and learned from them. One of the most lovely things here is that my family become bigger, now I’m part of the global family (Honduras, India, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Japan and USA) this is amazing, isn’t it. Before I come [...]
Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on November 22nd, 2012A wave of protests swept the coasts along the Visayan Sea, one of the Philippines’ rich fishing ground, on World Fisheries Day, the 21st of November. Small fisherfolks in these coastal communities are protesting the 4-month fishing ban in said fishing ground being implemented without their informed consent and without consideration of the ban’s impact [...]
Lidieth Alvarez (IF'11, Nicaragua) on November 18th, 2012We will be teaching a group of people from the community to reuse waste as recycled to achieve awareness of the person’s mind who live in our community. still not littering, beaches and rivers, with such garbage. we will be offering training for all who wants to attend and learn. have 15 young Fenix Formation [...]
omega on October 31st, 2012My name is Sarah Omega and I am from Kenya. I work with One By One as a project manager for the “Lets end fistula” program in western part of Kenya. I am privileged to be one of the fellows for the iLEAP international fellowship 2012. It has been a long journey since September the 10th [...]
Sunita Rao on October 12th, 2012One of the activities we did as part of our fellowship with iLEAP, was to create a poster using a picture of ourselves to express who we are, what we do, what is important to us, what our challenges are, what keeps us going and what the world that we want looks like. This was part of [...]
Sunita Rao on October 11th, 2012During one of our International Fellowship group sessions recently, some of us did a kind of Show and Tell. This was rather impromptu and we had to make do with what we had. I used a copper ring that I wear and spoke about it. The ring is snake shaped – a cobra in fact. I [...]
alaine on October 11th, 2012My name is Alaine and I work as a finance director in a non profit organisation called RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE. R.G.I is based in Seattle but works in Rwanda and has a school for girls called Gashora girls academy for science and technology. Our mission at RGI is to support girls who do not have [...]
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