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| − | ==5 Successes, 5 Failures, 5 Programs==
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| − | * [http://globalgiving.com Global Giving] Touted by Easterly as part of a new "market" for program delivery, I'd like to think this might be a successful model for micro-philanthropy. [[User:Alfino|Alfino]] 17:28, 5 March 2007 (PST)
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| − | * [http://www.villagebanking.org/ FINCA]] international -micro finance group. From Blair Adornato
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| − | * [[http://www.kiva.org/ KIVA]] an Internet based loan source, somewhat like global giving on the wiki page. (Blair has user experience with this one.) From Blair Adornato
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| − | * [[http://Greenmicrofinance.org Green Microfinance]] they work to promote environmentally sound projects while simultaneously using the micro finance model. From Blair Adornato
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| − | * The story of Leonard Wantchekon, from Benin, strikes me as both a personal success story and as a success story that invites us to think about the connection between education and development. This brief excerpt [[Media:Easterlyexerpt.PDF]] makes me curious about the school at Zagnanado that Wantchekon came from. It also makes me think about the potential value of having inbound international students from developing countries.
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| − | ===5 Failures===
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| − | *In our discussion at our first meeting, mention was made of the failure of an anti-malaria bed-netting program. I find myself coming back to that kind of failure in thinking about problems to avoid in our own future programs. [[User:Alfino|Alfino]] 07:15, 20 March 2007 (PDT)
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| − | *I think we also had a collective concern at our first meeting that we avoid program involvements that do not involve authentic community development. At some point, we should clarify this concern.[[User:Alfino|Alfino]] 07:20, 20 March 2007 (PDT)
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| − | ===5 Programs===
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| − | *[http://seattleu.edu/IDIP/ Seattle University's International Development Internship]. Please explore this sister-institution program. It gives a good example of tight curriculum integration and profound experiential learning in a diversity of well-organized credit-based placement locations.
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| − | ==April 20th Readings==
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| − | *Chinua Achebe, "[[Media:Achebe.PDF | The African writer and the English Language]]," from Morning Yet on Creation Day
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| − | *Thiong'o, The Language of African Literature, from Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986.
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| − | *Kwasi Wiredu, "[[Media:WireduHowNotToCompare0001.PDF | How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought]]," (from Albert Mosley, African Philosophy, Prentice Hall, 1995.)
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| − | *Jay Ciaffa, "[[Media:CiaffaPeaceConferencePaper.doc | Postcolonial African Philosophy: Reflections on Tradition and Modernization]]," Gonzaga Peace Conference, March 30-31, Spokane, Washington.
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