Brendan Pierpont | 3 posts
(Photo: Lucy Gent, 22, teaching environmental education to high school students in Cameroon) When Lucy Gent was only 10, she traveled with her family to Nigeria. She describes one experience that particularly stood out for her: I distinctly remember the night-time drive away from the airport and seeing frequent and evenly spaced piles of burning trash where [...]
July 11, 2009
“Julius Okutu Astiva runs a adult education center in Vihiga, Kenya. He teaches people who haven’t been afforded the opportunities of education growing up, often due to financial constraints. He teaches a large group of young and older women practical skills such as sewing and farming, as well as the formal essentials such as reading. [...]
June 12, 2009
Welcome. Something is tactile when it’s tangible, when you can put your hands on it and understand it by how it feels to the touch. This project tries to take all these imaginative and innovative ideas we’ve all been tossing around and peg them down to something concrete, or show how someone else has done just [...]
September 14, 2009
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