For the last of my entries, I got inspired by a post of my fellow IEDPer, Morgan, who shared her daily schedule while in her internship in Germany. Here is a quick glance in my life as an intern here in Cape Town. Thursday, August 29, 2019. 8AM: My alarm rings at 8am, but I often wake up before the alarm. I am generally enjoying … Continue reading 24 hours as an IEDP intern in Cape Town
On this blog post I thought of talking a little bit about the different activities I have been doing here in Cape Town. The greatest adventure of them all happens definitely at work, where I analyze over 3000+ responses of beneficiaries for the project we are evaluating and design with the feedback of my colleagues an evaluation matrix that will guide the quantitative and qualitative … Continue reading Hiking up Table Mountain on a day I shouldn’t have and more adventures in Cape Town
Hello from rainy, cold and incredibly beautiful Cape Town! It is hard to believe that I have officially been in South Africa for a month. I feel I have done, learned and seen so many things in the past 30 days that I don’t know how a single blog post will cover everything! Let me start with a quick update on what I have been … Continue reading Cape Town, iKapa, Kaapstad
***all photos with other people are posted with consent and the purpose was also explained to them*** Hi, folks! Here’s my long overdue blog post about my Chhattisgarh field visit experience. Just a quick refresher, the objectives of my field visit were: to pilot three instruments I have developed to observe the implementation of Room to Read’s Literacy Program and Girls’ Education Program to interview … Continue reading Beyond Data 1 – Lessons Learned from the Literacy Program Field Visit
Time flies fast! I am in the last week of my internship now – I have spent 8 weeks in Uganda and 2 weeks in Ethiopia, and I officially don’t know where the time went. It’s been a great 10 weeks – since my last update, I got to see the source of the Nile, attended the BEST music festival of all time (Nyege Nyege), … Continue reading An ode to data – Part 2
Grace*, a 15-year-old, is happy with the kind of joy that comes from finishing a big exam. She attends a `community school’ in Amuru district in North Uganda – a school that the local community set up for their children because the nearest Government primary school is over 40 km away. The community school is still not exactly next door – Grace wakes up at … Continue reading An ode to data – Part 1
The International Educational Development Program 