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Progress in Chaguite?
On April 10, 2015
Chaguite, Nicaragua, March 8, 2015. Today is the opening community meeting for this year’s project trip. The meeting is scheduled for 2pm. Dr. Kenneth
An ode
On April 10, 2015
Cuje is a mystery: her treasures are few and oddly concentrated; resource-brokers played favorites, inequalities reinforced by good intentions are sustaining injustice, sustaining need; years
Authentic engagement and undergraduate research
On February 23, 2015
Working side-by-side with residents of Chaguite, Nicaragua and Esfuerzo, Dominican Republic, W&M students are trying to understand how communities can improve health and access
First, do no harm?
On October 2, 2014
SOMOS and MANOS began in part in response to enthusiastic developments in higher education that suggested a happy confluence among the following: the energy
Community Development?
On September 8, 2014
Why are we in the Dominican Republic? This question was featured prominently at SOMOS beginning-of-the-year retreat on Saturday. A version of the question (about
An open letter to SOMOS and MANOS seniors, May 2014
On May 8, 2014
I make my living with words and, most times, I’m able to say something close to what I’m thinking and feeling. I am rarely
Newbies step up
On April 2, 2014
The MANOS students had reason for concerns about language proficiency and depth for the annual project trip. Two of our most talented and experienced teammates would
Chaguite, Cuje, Clinic
On March 24, 2014
We have worried about the value of our annual clinic since we first opened the doors in 2007. We intended NOT to be a
It’s Not Linear; 2/28/14
On March 24, 2014
In November 0f 2009, I wrote that SHC was becoming MANOS and that the timing seemed more than incidental. (And, it happened even before