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Author Archives: Humanist Service Corps

Your Drapes Must Be Hemmed and Your Drains Must be White

November 24, 2015by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer As a daughter of an Independent Baptist household that subscribed to Quiverfull ideology, I am well-schooled in the womanly arts, as we call them. […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

Audio Hawk – Finding Ghana and Myself

November 17, 2015by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer If the homes I have known sung hymns to me that unraveled with time, engendering me with reasons to be, how might I further use […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

In Ghana I’m White

October 28, 2015by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I was always the only brown kid in my class. Growing up in a town of fewer than four thousand that counted demographics by person […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

Cooking in Bimbilla, Ghana

October 13, 2015by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer As a daughter of patriarchy, I have logged more than my share of hours in the kitchen. I helped out with 400-person banquets to […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

“Oh, You Do Know My Language”: Finding the Poetry in Another Tongue

September 29, 2015by Humanist Service Corps 2 Comments

By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I met a little boy that resembled my features Nappy afro, gap in his smile…. He looked at me and said, “Kendrick you do know […]

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Let the Journey Begin: Driving into the Unfamiliar

September 15, 2015by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Transportation is one of my favorite parts of traveling. Mundane forms of transportation for locals in other countries seem new and unusual to me and […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

Nima, Ghana

September 1, 2015by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Matan Gold Humanist Service Corps Volunteer An open courtyard. A tin roof rusted red. A useless fan hangs from a wooden scaffold, its cords frayed vine-like. A woman sweeps the yard, […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

Meet the Humanist Service Corps Team

August 18, 2015by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

As the team settles in and starts getting to work in Kukuo, it’s time to get to know them a little bit better. Naduah Wheeler Naduah Wheeler is a graduate […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

Killing Witchcraft with Kindness

August 7, 2015by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Conor Robinson Humanist Service Corps Program Coordinator From July 2013 – June 2014, I oversaw Pathfinders Project, a yearlong international service trip sponsored by Foundation Beyond Belief as the […]

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Ethics & Philosophy, Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture, Religion & Secularism

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