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Unfolding a five-year plan

There have been times when we worried that the individual level needs are too urgent, that our methodical efforts to identify promising community level

The straw is too long

Notes from March 6, 2012 Michael Cammarata ’12 (ourth project trip) is this year’s clinic coordinator and he has organized meds, worked with our

The axe is too dull

Still catching up.  The following is taken from field notes on March 5, 2012. There is so much water in the rainy season.  Roads

There’s a hole in my bucket

Catching up.  What follows is from notes made in the field on March 4, 2012. There is an old Calypso song that tells of

Overheard in Committee — The Ides of March Edition

We Admit It!  Committee deliberations are often as interesting to us as they are to those outside of our office.  People seem to have

Overheard in Committee — Remove the Shroud of Secrecy

Admit It!  If given the opportunity to be a fly on the wall of admission committee deliberations you would do so.  You’re not alone;

When Mountains Move

My first post as a W&M blogger came after our Utah field season during the summer of 2008.  Indeed, we lived the high life

Why a pumpkin squash?

3.2.2012.  The A team traveled through the community, meeting friends and notifying residents about the coming week of medical clinic.  We stop at each of

Pumpkin Squash and Reciprocation; 3/3/12

We are greeted warmly—always and sincerely.  This year, the people of Chaguite seem a little less surpised that we have, in fact, returned.  It