By Bonnie Jackson After an eventful Saturday evening with multicultural conversation that continued into the night, we woke up excited to venture into un campo local para un almuerzo delicioso y local (a delicious, local lunch) from Freddy, Dominican native and...
By Will Nisbet and Connie Pinkerton Today presented the opportunity to venture into the mountainous interior of the DR to visit the museum and childhood home of the Mirabal sisters. The sisters are an emblem of hope, change, and sacrifice for the country due to their...
By Christine Varoutsos, Spanish Teacher at Potomac School It’s our first full day in the Dominican Republic, and we woke up feeling refreshed and excited to finally visit the Mariposa Center for Girls that we had read and heard so much about. After a short walk...
By Sarah Coste, The Potomac School, McLean, VA At last… July 23rd is here! Eleven teachers representing eight different schools joining Nobis World for a week-long service learning adventure in Cabarete, Dominican Republic. While we had informally...
By Christen Clougherty, Ph.D. One of the goals of Nobis World programs is to engage in the deep work of reflecting on our personal perspectives of power, privilege and systems of oppression. A participant asked me recently why I, a white, middle class woman chooses to...
Over 70 years ago the Gullah residents of Harris Neck, Georgia were abruptly ordered to leave their coastal property so that the U.S. military could use their land for training. Residents were given a promise that they could return after WWI ended, but instead the...
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