Category: Student Blogs
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- Student Blogs
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
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Student Interns
Kazuyoshi Hirohata Kazuyoshi is a second-year Masters student of International Development Policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy. Prior to attending Georgetown, …
August 19, 2014
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Summer 2013 – Kenya
During the Summer 2013 term, several undergraduate and graduate students from the economics department at Georgetown and the McCourt School of Public Policy traveled to Nairobi,…
July 28, 2014
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3…2…1…Action!
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…
July 22, 2013
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Safari!
This weekend some of us were able to sneak away for a three day, two night safari adventure in the Masai Mara. Don, Emily, and Whitney all made the five hour drive to the…
July 21, 2013
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Surveying begins!
We have officially launched! For the last two days our 60 enumerators, 6 team leaders, and 2 DDD staff members have been out in the field surveying women and inviting them…
July 15, 2013
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Meet the team!
Time to meet the team! This summer six Georgetown students have joined Woubie, the full-time Project Manager (also a Georgetown grad!), in Nairobi to work on the Twaweza…
July 5, 2013