Category: Student Blogs

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Student Blogs

Kenya Student Blogs: Summer 2017

The Zusha! Intern Diaries Jessica Li (MIDP 2018) Our day starts by hailing down a tuk tuk in Machakos, Kenya as we near the end of a whirlwind nine-city tour of the country…

July 23, 2017

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Summer 2017 – East Africa

“We began to appreciate how little changes and incentives, if carefully thought out, can have a big impact on people’s lives.” During the Summer 2017 term,…

July 14, 2017

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Summer Internship 2018

February 13, 2018 The Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (gui2de) is looking to send up to 10 Georgetown student interns to East Africa…

February 21, 2017

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Kaitlyn Turner – Uganda

The summer between McCourt School of Public Policy graduate school years, I interned for gui2de on their road safety project Zusha! In Uganda. By the end of my first year at…

December 1, 2016

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Jimmy Graham – Rwanda

From hikes up to lava lakes in the Congo to data collection at insurance companies, my internship this summer in Rwanda has provided me with a wide range of experiences. And…

December 1, 2016

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Paula Mian – Tanzania

Before boarding the plane to Dar Es Salaam, in beautiful Tanzania, I truly had no idea how much my life was about to change. After having finished my first year in grad school, I…

November 30, 2016

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Beatrice Leydier – Uganda

Kampala,  I’ve sacrificed three pairs of shoes to your dusty roads and muddy streets, but this is merely the visible side of the mark you imprinted on me. The permanent…

November 30, 2016

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Summer 2016 – East Africa

During the Summer 2016 term, several undergraduate and graduate students from the economics department at Georgetown and the McCourt School of Public Policy traveled to…

November 30, 2016

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2016 Blog Post

Today we showed the first round of Makutano Junction episodes in Mukuru.  Despite some expected first days kinks, overall it was a tremendous logistical success.  We had videos…

August 29, 2016

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Summer 2015 – East Africa

This summer, a group of students worked with gui2de on a series of research and development projects in East Africa. As this was my first trip to the continent, I was incredibly…

October 2, 2015