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Category Archives: Humanist Service Corp Blog

My Home Away From Home

August 24, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Cleo S. Blacke Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator Growing up, home was two rooms shared with my mother and four siblings in a compound house we shared with five other […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

Finding my Philosophy of Service

August 17, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Jude Lane Humanist Service Corps Volunteer For most of my life I knew I wanted to help others, and what that has meant to me changed drastically over time. I went […]

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Ethics & Philosophy, Humanist Service Corp Blog

Conversations in Ghana About Race in America

August 12, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Warren Alan Tidwell Humanist Service Corps Volunteer We have arrived in Ghana for our year of volunteer work with the Humanist Service Corps. Leading up to my departure I researched West […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

An Update on the Kukuo Health Screening Project

July 22, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In a piece a while back, I had talked at length about a health screening and medical records project being undertaken in Kukuo by […]

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On Departure

July 6, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

Can I come back home? Will you receive me if I do? Will all I collected make up for the time I missed with you? As the time for departure […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog

Mental Healthcare Access, Stigma, and Discrimination

June 21, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 2 Comments

By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I’m bipolar. There’s a lot of debate about whether to say “I am bipolar” or “I have bipolar disorder”, but the way I perceive the […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys, Politics & Culture

What Alternative is There? Hope and Resiliency in Kukuo Village

June 7, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 3 Comments

By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer The people in my life who know me have always told me that resiliency is among my strongest traits.  In my family, we refer […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

Announcing next year’s team and program developments!

May 26, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Conor Robinson Humanist Service Corps Program Coordinator When I first began planning for the launch of the Humanist Service Corps, I assumed that I would need to spend at […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog

A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground: Imagining a Humanist Approach to Prayer

May 16, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 2 Comments

By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground”- Rumi To some extent I envy religious people. A careful reading of a Braver […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Religion & Secularism

Avocados and Autism

April 29, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 3 Comments

By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer April is Autism Acceptance/Autism Awareness Month. As such, I felt it appropriate to write about my life as an autistic* woman who was diagnosed […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

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