Tag: conflict

  • Looking Different: Sharing Stories of Pain

    Looking Different: Sharing Stories of Pain

    Written by Sarah Chang // “Sarah, have you ever been treated differently because you look different?”   This question caught me off guard. Two of my coworkers and I were sitting around the kitchen table at work, sipping coffee during our break, when one of them asked this question. I responded with a “yes” and…

  • Beach Boys: How a Brit and a Group of Arawak Hunters Taught Me to See People as Human

    Beach Boys: How a Brit and a Group of Arawak Hunters Taught Me to See People as Human

    Written by Johanna Depenthal // An observer on a moonlit spring night in 1964 on the coast of the South American country now known as Guyana might have been surprised to spy a tall, young British man moving silently and determinedly down remote Shell Beach.  Also patrolling the beach, though with a very different aim,…

  • Children of the Sand: Restoring the Home Poverty Stole

    Children of the Sand: Restoring the Home Poverty Stole

    Written by Sandra Gastañudi Torres // (Article originally written in Spanish. Click here for the English translation) Spanish Alto Trujillo y Nuevo Jerusalén, son dos localidades contiguas, que se extienden en los  arenales del Cerro Cabra, en la ciudad de Trujillo; son altamente peligrosos y delictivos, abundan las pandillas, sicariato y bandas organizadas. Probablemente el germen del…