I enjoyed this post on the Working World blog which which discusses how: in an effort to give unemployed graduates something to do, the British government is paying 500 people under 24 to travel abroad and take part in projects “such as building schools” I can no longer get the BBC link to work, but [...]
It’s nearly 3am. Our updated PEPY Tours website is about to go live and 4 of us are in the office trying to make that happen. We are feeling the pressure of the fact that supposedly all power will be cut in Siem Reap tomorrow or the next day for two days, so we wanted [...]
I decided to move my blog from its old location on the PEPY NING site here so that I could: – better distance my opinions from that of the whole PEPY organization – allow people to comment more easily even if they are not part of the PEPY network – write about things which might [...]
Wow! Check it out! We gave out 106 bikes year year for the fourth installment of our Bike-to-School Program. This year, we have nearly 100% increase in students graduating from grade six since we started PEPY and nearly 1000% increase in the number of kids completing grade seven. A huge factor in that is that [...]
I wrote a comment today on our Geotourism Challenge site which I wanted to share: http://geotourism.changemakers.com/en-us/node/21932 It seems that a lot of people have been voting for PEPY on the site (THANK YOU!) and some have also gone so far as to write nice comments for us on our page. I was writing back to [...]
A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the International Women’s Forum event in Hong Kong. I not only got to speak about PEPY and the lessons we’ve learned, but also to meet many amazing women making changes all over the world. A friend of mine, who is the founder of [...]
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