by Jeremy Calo Alvarez | Jan 31, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Sam Tamayo – Project Smile History is filled with youth movements that have sparked change in the world. From the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, to the events at Tiananmen Square, to the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, to modern...
by Methode Emmanuel Ihirwe | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: ROMAN ODINTSOV. I read the second edition of The State They’re In by Matthew Lockwood, a book which examines African poverty’s causes and politics to propose better aid, trade, and debt policies. It also covers the 2005 Gleneagles G8 and WTO summit...
by Maria DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
I recently spent nine months traveling up mountains and along coasts to investigate why and how young people are choosing to farm for a living in Calabria, a southern region of Italy known for having lots of land but increasingly less people and even fewer jobs. I met...
by Methode Emmanuel Ihirwe | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Lawrence Baganiah. In the early years following Rwanda’s independence in 1962, the job market was more accessible for high school graduates. This was due to the small population of Rwanda, as noted by Trading Economics, and low literacy rates as...
by Maria DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
It was just another day when I decided to meet a friend at a restaurant. As we stood at the counter, placing our orders, the waiter handed us a small device that instantly caught my attention. It looked remarkably like an old-school pager, not something that matched...
by Maria DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
Like most young people involved in activism, I have too frequently heard the dreaded phrase that reduced my passion to naiveté: “Just wait until you enter the real world.” Back in my early days of advocacy, I told myself I would never allow my hope to fall victim to...
