Trey Songz- Missing you

Dedicated to my lovely sisters in the heartland.

I miss home already

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I MISS YOGA

Sarah Vaughan- “You’d be so nice to come home to”

I tripped into falling for someone…

I firmly believe that people love in varying degrees and under varying definitions. I define when I love you different than how another person might define it. And I think some people reach varying degrees or ceilings of love too. I don’t want to explain that sentence. What I’m trying to get at is: I believe that love only works when each person loves to the same degree and under the same definition. But can you gauge that someone is on the same level as you before you fall? Wouldn’t that be nice…

Founded in 1996, just after the World Conference on Women in Beijing, Tewa was established as an alternative model for development within the Nepali context. While promoting both sustainable development and women’s empowerment, Tewa’s work explicitly aims to do away with established hierarchies of gender, class, caste, ethnicity, age and even geography. It demonstrates an inclusive, non-hierarchical structure that is transparent and accountable, as well as trusting and respectful. In addition, Tewa is committed to human resource development in all aspects of its work.

Tewa’s work consists of two main programs: grant-making and volunteer fund raisers. In its grant-making process, Tewa pays particular attention to rural women’s groups in order to support their political voice and visibility. To raise funds and simultaneously create a model for sustainable development, Tewa trains volunteers to engage in local fund raising for the direct support of their grant-making program.

Most recently Tewa has invested in a Land and Building Development project (TLBD). This will allow for further sustainability by generating income for the organization

I’ve been working for the past 10 months on the OneWorld Global Crafts Bazaar and Development Fair and all of the preceding events.

I’ve coordinated for 27 student groups and 10 local nonprofit organizations and international NGOs to lead tables at the bazaar to sell goods made my fairly compensated artisans from around the world. These tables will also highlight the issues facing the artisans, organizations that work with these populations, and ways for students to get involved in civic engagement to enact social change (internships, volunteer service trips, jobs, etc.). All of our profits will be donated to a microfinance organization- most likely one that focuses on a more holistic approach to development (not something like Kiva or Microplace)- and most likely Women for Human Rights in Nepal.

OH! Great news! The Institute for Global Leadership, the flagship program of Tufts University (and the reason why our International Relations Program is one of the best in the country), has committed to match our profits! And to also bring us a speaker to talk about how the empowerment of women is a key to poverty alleviation around the world (this is the theme of our event this year). We already are holding a talk with Tryfan Evans, the director of the Omidyar Tufts Microfinance Fund (a $100 million fund given by the head of E-Bay to Tufts and invested by Tufts in microfinance- the largest type of fund of its kind in the WORLD). I look forward to hearing about Tryfan Evans’s perspective, because he comes from the private sector but also has a link to Tufts. But I am excited to get another speaker that really focuses on women’s issues.

I have taken the model and idea that I was given by Moises (the lead coordinator) and have shaped it to promote my own ideals and hopes. We had first envisioned student groups leading tables in hopes for student groups to interact and begin working together. They are still going to do that at the bazaar. But I took that goal and realized that OneWorld holds so much more potential. I realized that this was an opportunity for meaningful civic engagement. I’ve put student groups in contact with major NGOs and nonprofits around the world in hopes that this will spark a relationship between Tufts students and those organizations and collaboration. Student groups that have never done any kind of development work before are now getting involved and mentoring from large organizations that are relevant in mission and also have programs for development. I’m already seeing the fruits of my work. Students in the Baha’i Faith Organization are now selling bags through Nomi Nework and are having meetings with the Emancipation Network. Students in the Eastern Orthodox Group on campus are working with IOCC. Students part of the International Club are working with UN reps in the Greater Boston area. I can’t explain how excited I am. I believe in more social action. In essence, we are giving these large organization more resources by giving them manpower and future leaders, and we’re giving student opportunities and connections.

When I first became involved in OneWorld, I felt a very strong conflict between my present beliefs and aspirations and the purpose and design of our event. I have formed my life, my studies, my extracurriculars, my jobs to lead me on a path to become a powerful advocate for social equity in the US. I set my goals to work within the fields of fair lending, fair housing, and environmental health & justice. All of those things are related to international issues, but frankly, I only cared about these issues within the American context.

Now, with all of the pride I feel for OneWorld and inspiration, I am questioning my life goal and path… The whole world has opened up to me. I have made connections throughout the world.. and will continue to make connections throughout the world if I continue working with Moises and other people I have met this semester. I feel inspired to be a social entrepreneur. I like working within the private sector to enact social change, and I like working within the nonprofit and research sectors as well. I just can’t seem to choose. I know it’s ridiculous to think that I have to choose now, but I do need to decide whether I want my next step to be driven towards international social entrepreneurship or US fair lending and fair housing issues…

I’ll keep thinking….

Sa-Ra Creative Partners- “Melodee N’Mynor”

atoms smashing. particles accelerate.

heart is drifting…

i wonder whether you’ll stand the test of time

sun rising.

holy water trickling.
ceremonies under our feet,
thousands.
centuries of supplications to the gods-
down in caverns twisting
through and within
the mountains,
we could feel their soft invocations.
the air we breathed felt free
with feet firm on dark peaks.

the sun rising.

the holy water is their source. of religion, of strength, of power, of courage, of connectedness, of life. its rivers flow through every hill and valley of that small island and every arm and vein of its people.

“Everything is water; this is water, all of this – it’s water.”

the air felt free up there. on top of that mountain.

I will return to Bali someday soon.