Field Notes (Blog)
Posts from July 2010
Noted on July 26, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
By Ann Oluloro: University of Oregon student and IE3 Scholarship Recipient interning with Child Family Health International (CFHI) in La Paz, Bolivia
Last week I completed my rotation in the general pediatric department with Dr. Bocangel. I enjoy general medicine because of the variety of cases that general practitioners can see on any given day. In the general pediatric unit, here at Hospital del Niño the cases presented are as varied as are the patients.
Each…
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Noted on July 19, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
By Roxana Norouzi: IE3 and University of Washington Alum with a Master's degree in Social Work. Interned with Grassroots Community Development in Sumer 2009.
Last summer, as I completed my first year of the Master’s in Social Work Program at the University of Washington, I conducted a portion of my practicum placement in a rural area of India through IE3. At this time, I could not anticipate how this experience would change my view of the world,…
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Noted on July 12, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
by Simone Walter: University of Oregon student interning at the Institute for Democracy (IDASA) in South Africa.
Two weeks since I left my home country.
I came in search of answers, for questions I have yet to formulate. I came only in search of understanding a country. A country under the spotlight of the international stage, a country still healing from decades of Apartheid violence and discrimination, a country born from the ashes of docility and racism.
"Twenty years ago I would have been beaten by police had they seen us conserving on the streets,"…
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Noted on July 5, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
Interviewee: Maddy Gribbon University of Oregon and IE3 Alum, interned with Women's Aid Organization (WAO) in Malaysia
Maddy, who hails from Portland, is a senior at the University of Oregon planning to graduate this coming June with a degree in Family and Human Services and the R.D. Clark College. She spent 8 months in 2009 in SE Asia. During this time she studied in Singapore, interned in Malaysia, and traveled to several places including Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia. She is currently applying for the Continue Reading this Article »
