School Feeding Cluster Strategy- Designing Applicable and Sustainable Teachers Guides

Upon wrapping up the Play & Resilience project by mid-July, I was thrilled to be involved in some miscellaneous tasks at the office – writing concept notes, bringing together some promotional material for IICBA’s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and doing some editing work. I put together a short video for the Play & Resilience dissemination workshop. Check it out here – My next task for … Continue reading School Feeding Cluster Strategy- Designing Applicable and Sustainable Teachers Guides

Play & Resilience, Plot Twists, and a Birthday Bash!

As an intern at UNESCO IICBA my primary task has quickly become developing the Play & Resilience toolkit. Play & Resilience is China-Africa project targeting healthy and holistic Early Childhood Development in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. On my first day itself my supervisor Binyam shared the initial draft developed by a consultant that I had to expand into a toolkit. IEDP Prosem was a … Continue reading Play & Resilience, Plot Twists, and a Birthday Bash!

Jamaica Journal- how the journey ends

This blog post is slightly overdue but I needed the time and the distance to be truly reflective. The last few weeks in Kingston were filled with an abundance of activity such as report generations, handover meetings- a general flurry of dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s if you will. The fact that it spanned over two weeks was because July and August are … Continue reading Jamaica Journal- how the journey ends

Sesame Street: Road Closure

I don’t know any other way to write about this than to be transparent. I am writing this from Philadelphia, not New Delhi. I expressed my discontent for enduring weeks without work or pleasantries to my supervisor at Sesame Workshop India.  I told her I felt neither needed nor wanted – she responded by telling me it was my fault because I was not motivated.  … Continue reading Sesame Street: Road Closure

New life in Bangkok, Thailand

Hi, everyone! I’m Emi and I’m spending this summer in Bangkok, Thailand. I’m interning with an international organization and working with a teacher education team which currently focuses on gender sensitive teacher professional development as well as other initiatives designed to support teachers in Asia-Pacific region. It’s my third time to visit Thailand but first time to live and work in Bangkok. I’m very excited … Continue reading New life in Bangkok, Thailand