by Jeremy Calo Alvarez | Mar 20, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Jeremy Calo Alvarez. It’s June 14, 2021. The ground still glistening from the rain that just poured. I carry my camera slung across my shoulder as I get into a mid 2000’s Toyota Avanza. I’m tagging along with my friend and his dad as...
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
Last fall, I moved to southern Italy—a big jump for someone who had never left the eastern side of the North American continent. I had graduated in May and was beginning the Fulbright Scholarship to do independent research with a university in Calabria. I moved to the...
