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Ram Pokhrel (IF'08, Nepal) on April 30th, 2008The love towards local food of the people in Seattle seems increasing; this is what I felt from the discussion in our table while having dinner at Ballard High School yesterday. The program was somehow attracting many people and yet I came to know that some even could not get the ticket as it all [...]
Shammi David (IF'08, India) on April 29th, 2008The visit to VV has made me to see people like Shana, with future vision to build strong network through volunteers and make them to be the part of peoples developmental work. Her interest towards knowing our work gave lot of encouragement to share our work and which was very similiar to her views and [...]
Ram Pokhrel (IF'08, Nepal) on April 29th, 2008Shana used to work for non profit which was working for girls education. She could not continue the work as she thought she could support education of girl’s but could not give the real future i.e. what after education, as employment was a great problem in developing countries. She then started working with Village Volunteers, [...]
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Abel Adje (IF'08, Togo) on April 29th, 2008One of things which shocked me and which I didn’t understand is the reality of the homeless in the powerful and omnipotent US, the rich US, … It is astonishing to see a person with all modern conveniences and nearby another person begging a daily bread – homeless! It is amazing to see big buildings [...]
Shammi David (IF'08, India) on April 28th, 2008it reminded me that in Mysore and Bangalore we do have flower shows during Dasara, I enjoy seeing different flowers, vegetables, but when I saw the Tulip flower festival its bit different than ours, our is a small place where we could see different types of flowers in one small place but here we have [...]
Nzene Sylvester (IF'08, Cameroon) on April 28th, 2008Last weekend past by giving me an insight of what web 2 is all about. I spent all the time trying to blog. Visiting one blogging window to the other and some times asking the blogger to help. All of a sudden I saw myself creating a blog. Now I have a blog. I am [...]
Shammi David (IF'08, India) on April 26th, 2008Music, Music and Music, I love listening to music and listening is one of my way to undnerstand things and people better and bring out tensions down. Being in Seattle for so many days, I am trying to adjust to the weather, feeling out of place sometimes, this musical session was wonderful to me. I [...]
Ram Pokhrel (IF'08, Nepal) on April 25th, 2008Today while I was in a conversation with Genevieve (my homestay Tony and Betsy’s daughter) this morning, I came to know that people in United States pay $30 for their dog to care in a day center, $45 for hair cut and $40-50 for spa. This price may vary depending upon the place and service [...]
Shammi David (IF'08, India) on April 25th, 2008yesterdays iLEAP fellows program was so rich and I could see unity in Diversity. the effort of organsiers has made this program eventfull to bridge the network more stronger. By this we may find new avenues to bring changes in our way for work for the people. iLEAP, though i is small but shows International [...]
Ram Pokhrel (IF'08, Nepal) on April 25th, 2008Thanks to those who attended the event. It was great to be with you all in the Grass roots Social Change interaction last night at Antioch University. I would like to thank all the iLEAP staff for organizing the event. I enjoyed the event very much and hope you did too. I am eager to [...]
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