Bringing the Power of Play to Refugee Children
As part of the WISE Learners’ Voice Program, our team volunteered with Metadrasi and Organization Earth, both of which are organizations in Athens. They are working tirelessly to meet the needs of refugees living in camps and housing accommodation. As volunteers, we were often tasked with engaging the children who constitute approximately half the […]
Lessons From Africa: Local Impact, Global Promise
For nearly five years, I lived in Mumbai, India, during a period that overlapped with the financial crisis in Europe. For a little while, at least, observers looked to India to glean lessons from its jugaad innovation approach (a term denoting “work-around”), which came to signify creative improvisation and frugal management. Increasingly, global innovation and education communities […]