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December: Celebrations Around the World

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We’re probably all familiar with various holiday-time traditions and rituals beyond Christmas trees and menorahs: Wearing red undergarments on Chinese New Year, Germany’s creepy Krampus Night, the widely celebrated Three Kings Day in Latin America, among others. How a culture celebrates offers a glimpse into its values, ideals and how people live life day to day. … Continued

November: The Gratitude Issue

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Our relationship with the small villages around Moshi, a town tucked in the foothills of Tanzania’s towering Mount Kilimanjaro, spans over a decade. In many village schools in rural Tanzania, student-teacher ratios regularly reach fifty-to-one; coupled with extremely limited educational resources like textbooks and writing utensils, the faculty at these schools do their best to … Continued