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featuring Dieudonne Allo and Jacquelyn Moore Two Goldin Fellows from South Africa and the USA (Dieudonne Allo and Jacquelyn Moore) are joining forces to convene young people with an interest in STEM and Robotics from Chicago (USA) and Port Alfred (South Africa) to collaborate as a unified team to compete in the FIRST® Innovation Challenge presented by Qualcomm.… Continue reading United by STEM: One Team, Two Continents

This may not be my final contribution to the Goldin Instiute’s newsletter, but to be sure it is the most difficult to write. After six years, I am leaving Goldin Institute to work with the Skoll Foundation in northern California. In my new role as a Principal of the foundation, I will help oversee grantmaking to… Continue reading Transitions for our Director of Community Learning and Collaboration

By Jimmie Briggs, Director of Learnign In the last two weeks alone, more than 8,000 Cameroonian refugees have streamed across the border into neighboring Nigeria, fleeing an increasingly high intensity conflict between the national government and English-speaking militias seeking to form a breakaway state called “Ambazonia.” For Global GATHER alumnus Alexander Gwanvalla, the deteriorating situation… Continue reading GATHER Alum Supports Community Amidst Conflict in Cameroon

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In the efforts to address poverty, the voices of those impacted by economic insecurity are too often conspicuously absent. The Goldin Institute’s work builds on the experiences and perspectives of those living in poverty and designs solutions based on their knowledge, strategies and aspirations. The current debate about the efficacy of microfinance is marked by… Continue reading Improving Microcredit from the Perspective of Borrowers

In the efforts to address poverty, the voices of those impacted by economic insecurity are too often conspicuously absent. The Goldin Institute’s work builds on the experiences and perspectives of those living in poverty and designs solutions based on their knowledge, strategies and aspirations. Through the Goldin Institute’s pioneering work on Community-Based Oral Testimony in… Continue reading Improving Microcredit in Bangladesh

A recent study published in Pediatrics points to the long-lasting payoffs to treating depression and anxiety in former child soldiers and other youth impacted by the civil war in Sierra Leone.  Lead author and director of the Research Program of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Health, Theresa Betancourt, commented… Continue reading Study Shows Benefits of Child-Soldier Reintegration

New Generation of Leaders in Colombia Offers Hope This story about the emerging leaders in Colombia, reminded us of how the best opportunities for ending the conflict—and healing wounds left behind—lies with young people who have lived through the violence and best understand the solutions.  As the story reports on one group in particular making… Continue reading Youth Movement Key to Ending Conflict in Colombia

Pope Francis Supports the Peace Process in Mindanao Although scheduling constraints prevented a direct visit to the Southern Philippines, Pope Francis made it clear that he endorses the ongoing peace process between the government and the Philippines’ largest organized armed group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).   This came as very good news to… Continue reading Pope Francis and the Philippines