Category: Student Blogs
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- Student Blogs
Twiga Ochieng (aka Luke Butcher)
Nyaje, marafiki zangu? From the language to the people to the places, it’s hard for me to believe how quickly my daily life has changed since returning from Kenya. I’ll briefly…
November 7, 2018
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Tanzania Student Blogs: Summer 2017
The Funguka! Interns Blog by John Marshall, Akaravuit Pancharoen, and Poonam Ravindranath From the moment we landed in Dar es Salaam, we were awestruck by Tanzania’s…
August 11, 2017
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Uganda Student Blogs: Summer 2017
It is early July and we have been in Uganda for a little over a month now. Five weeks ago, we stepped off of our planes at Entebbe International Airport into a country we knew…
July 31, 2017
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Tanzania Student Blogs: Summer 2017
gui2de interns went to Tanzania to work on the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) program. Here’s what they had to say… On the RISE:…
July 31, 2017
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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