TBB in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa News:
Plett plays host to bright young US volunteer workers
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Thank You!
Thinking Beyond Borders would like to thank Fred Ausubel & Stephanie Bird for hosting a TBB Community Dinners this month!
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Greetings!
Our month in South Africa was a powerful experience. Students spent their mornings in the different
townships surrounding Plettenberg Bay working with home-based
care-givers from Plett Aid. The "carers" are incredible people - they
are primarily from the townships where they work and know the
communities and their patients very well. The students were able to
learn a lot from them as well as from the patients they visited...
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Student Voices: South Africa
 "For the last three weeks, I have been working in the township of Kranshoek, South Africa, with Anthea, a home-based caregiver. From my first visit to a patient's house, I knew that what I was experiencing was remarkable. Just fifteen years after the end of Apartheid, here was a community of three races who were all bound by the same pandemic, HIV. Even for the patients treated for strokes or diabetes, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is impossible for them to fully ignore. If one patient does not actually have the virus, they live next to someone who does, or the man they buy bread from has a son who goes to school with a boy who has been orphaned by it. There is always a connection. For these people, AIDS is not a statistic; it is a friend, or a brother, or an absent parent..." - Alexis Kidd
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 Do YOU want to hear directly from TBB students?
From April 20th-30th TBB students will be traveling through Washington DC, New York, CT, MA, KY, OH, GA,
IL, & PA sharing their stories. If you would like a TBB student to
present for your school, club, or organization, please contact Andrea Canuel. |
Translating Learning into Action On the afternoon of March 22nd, TBB's first program group landed in New York City to begin the final and most unique component of the itinerary. During these final six weeks, the students will meet with NGOs like the Clinton Foundation and Grameen Bank, development organizations like the United Nations and World Bank, and policy makers during our lobby day at the US Congress. They'll synthesize their learning from throughout the program by creating formal Presentations of Learning during a two-week retreat. Finally, they'll translate their learning into action by sharing their presentations with student and philanthropy groups around the US to raise awareness and funds for the organizations they worked with abroad. Thinking Beyond Borders programs don't just culminate with ideas, but with meaningful action. |
 Marathon Spotlight: Greg Beach
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 Book Review:
There Are No Children Here
by Alex Kotlowitz
Inner city Chicago faces the same problems urban communities throughout the US do: gang violence, drug trafficking, high unemployment, failing schools, and death and incarceration rates for young African American and Latino males that are astounding. There Are No Children Here illustrates these realities by chronicling the experiences of two young boys who confront these challenges each day. As the reader becomes intimately involved in their lives, it is increasingly clear that "poverty" goes far beyond levels of income to encompass a sense of freedom, agency, safety, and justice. Read More
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While the group is experiencing some jet-lag, and everyone is excited about catching up with friends and family, we are also excited about the next 5 weeks!
Best,
Sandy Pendoley
Co-Founder
Thinking Beyond Borders
www.thinkingbeyondborders.org
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