The Celebration of All Beginnings
September 1, 2018 4:47 am Comments Off on The Celebration of All Beginnings
Author Archives for Lourdes Zapata Miranda
5 Reasons To Be A Volunteer
August 1, 2018 12:49 am Comments Off on 5 Reasons To Be A VolunteerWednesday December 2, 2015, 1:30 pm, I took a flight to Brazil, a country that would witness my personal growth...
Con amor, CUBA
July 31, 2018 11:51 pm Comments Off on Con amor, CUBAA country that had been starring my bucket list for a long time and that I finally had the opportunity...
Feeling Lonely In The U.S.?
June 28, 2018 3:05 pm Comments Off on Feeling Lonely In The U.S.?Researches have shown it and during my two combined years of living in the U.S. I have witnessed it, loneliness...
Crisis in Nicaragua
June 27, 2018 9:40 pm Comments Off on Crisis in NicaraguaWhat do you know about what is happening four countries apart? Nicaragua is under a deadly social and political unrest,...
Youth Unemployment in Developing Countries
March 31, 2018 5:13 pm Comments Off on Youth Unemployment in Developing CountriesWith 76 percent of its population under the age of 39, the Nicaraguan workforce is a young and dynamic...
Not a Condition But a Source of Inspiration
February 28, 2018 2:09 pm Comments Off on Not a Condition But a Source of InspirationHome for me is the impoverished, unsteady and chaotic city of Managua, capital of Nicaragua, a country of ceaseless economic...
Why is Global Citizenship Education so important?
February 26, 2018 5:54 pm 1 CommentThe world we live in is more complex, it has become more interconnected and interdependent. Local and individual actions have...
Competencies for Life
February 26, 2018 5:50 pm Comments Off on Competencies for LifeWhat it means to be an integral professional? Certainly, with the constant change in labor market, besides having the technical...
Equity. Opportunity. For All
January 31, 2018 10:24 pm Comments Off on Equity. Opportunity. For AllA feeling of belonging arose during my first weeks at Heartland Alliance four months ago. An uplifting organizational culture, a distinctive well-funded mission,...
A Warm Chicago
December 22, 2017 11:20 pm Comments Off on A Warm ChicagoOne month had passed since the day I started looking for housing in Chicago, the city where I would be...