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Marie-Noelle Nwokolo ’16
Former international business & management major Marie-Noelle Nwokolo ’16 embraces her passion for improving Africa’s economic standing as a researcher at The Brenthurst Foundation. A fervent advocate for promoting Africa’s prosperity, she strives to help businesses, societies and country managers create solutions to address the continent’s challenges.
Can you speak to how Dickinson’s useful liberal-arts education helped you along your career path?
Can I speak about my journey without acknowledging the usefulness of a liberal-arts education?! That’s the question. I didn’t realize it then, but I can surely attest to how versatile, open-minded, and multifaceted my liberal arts education has made me. It has been especially advantageous on my career path when it comes to understanding and tackling the daunting challenges I face at work, and in general discussions. Understanding that different disciplines teach or emphasize different lens(es) is
Needs vs. Assets: However You Engage a Community, Start with Listening
Claire Stewart
Six years ago, the organization I work for created a video to introduce its approach to Christ-centered poverty alleviation. In the opening line, the narrator sets up a contrast.
“When we approach God with our dreams and desires, we often focus on what we don’t have,” he says, “but when God’s people approach Him in scripture, He often responds with an unexpected question: What do you have in your hands?”
This contrast is a perfect illustration of two different approaches to engaging with a community. And God’s unexpected question can, in my opinion, serve as a model for the posture we should take as we apply them both.
Kid volunteers: Raising children who give back
Your kids are making their wish lists and coveting stuff, and the true spirit of the holidays is being usurped by the toy catalogue. Are you inadvertently raising little consumers who constantly compare what they have and don’t have? Here’s how to teach them empathy and the value of giving back.
For the last couple of years,
Toronto mom Salma Syed and her kids, Maarya, 12, Ibraheem, eight, and Sameeha, six, have been part of Spreading Salam, a group created to help kids volunteer and give back. The kid volunteers socialize a bit with their buddies in the group, make sandwiches and pack them up. Then the parents and some of the older children head to downtown Toronto to deliver the food and bottles of water to homeless people. The kid volunteers involved with Spreading Salam also make and help distribute food baskets to Syrian refugees who’ve made Canada their home. “We want to make sure that we’re instilling the values i
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