Not “Just Another Towelhead”: A Globalist Q&A with slam poet Hamda Yusuf
Meet Hamda Yusuf: She’s 19, she’s a local slam poetry champion, and she wants to be the US ambassador to Somalia.
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29 Mar
Don’t call them victims, these youth are slum changemakers
The polio-fighting, clean water advocating, girls’ rights empowered youth of “The Revolutionary Optimists” shatters everything we thought we knew about creating change.
06 Feb
Rethinking study abroad, diverse youth travel to China and Middle East
Study abroad is a defining experience for many high school and college students. But often the students who have access to those programs are white and upper/middle class. One Seattle program hopes to change that.
03 Dec
Vancouver native delivers soy milk for Myanmar’s malnourished
It almost sounds too good to be true. In remote areas of Myanmar, a portable soy milk machine that runs without electricity, is cheap and delivers life-saving proteins and vitamins to malnourished orphans. One family from Vancouver has made it their life’s work to keep the milk flowing.
02 Nov
From Seattle to Spain, youth united by a stagnant economy
The photo made me stop short, my coffee cup hovering a few inches above the newspaper. A young man in jeans and a Barcelona soccer jersey bent over a Dumpster rummaging for food. Spain is suffering 50 percent unemployment among young people, the article explained, and hunger is on the rise. The last time I [...]
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