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As part of a class I took on Humanitarian Assistance we headed into the woods for a three-day simulation that re-created a situation with 100,000 refugees on the Chad-Sudan border. 40 degree overnight temperatures, mock cholera and measles outbreaks, my team leader being kidnapped by rebel forces, a mass grave and braving the MREs (meals [...]

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One day I was writing Michael’s initials on his soccer ball.  For some reason I wrote the initals going down instead of left to write and it looked like this.
In the course of playing soccer the ball spun round and round until it finally came to rest with the initials facing a different direction and [...]

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 My last post was about my friends Marc and Michele who are also fellows.  I just got some new information about where the rest of the 22 fellows were posted.  Click on the image below to see an interactive map of where the 2008 CRS fellows are going to be posted. 

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One of my classmates has leukemia and has been in search of a bone marrow donor.  Check out this video she made to encourage people to join the bone marrow registry.  It only takes 15 minutes, it could save someones life and you should do it! 
Check out her blog where she writes about her upcoming [...]

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I’ve written a bunch about my new job in Honduras, but one thing I haven’t mentioned yet is that two of my good friends from Fletcher will also be working for CRS next year.  CRS hires 15-30 fellows each year and places them in one of their country offices around the world.  There were four Fletcher [...]

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In the top right corner you may have noticed an orange button that says RSS.  “RSS” stands for “Real Simple Syndication.”  A few people have asked about it so I’ll try to give a brief description here on what it is and why you might want to use it.  
 
Websites publish lists of updates, called [...]

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So I got frustrated with the way the website looked last night and revamped it.  With any luck this new version will have a cleaner look and be more flexible in the way we can work with it.  Explore the site, check out the link list above and the feeds to the right.  One quick tip [...]

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