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Tag Archives: service

Life in the Witch Camps of Ghana

August 30, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 7 Comments

By Alhassan Baako Humanist Service Corps Volunteer When you visit the Kukuo witch camp in the Northern Region of Ghana you will see numerous elderly and vulnerable women dwelling in the camp. […]

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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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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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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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Cultural Sensitivity vs. Personal Responsibility

April 13, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I was nervous about teaching in Macau. Obviously I was nervous about moving halfway across the world by myself, but more than that, I was […]

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

Secular is Insufficient – How HSC Differs from the Peace Corps

January 22, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 8 Comments

By Conor Robinson Humanist Service Corps Program Coordinator Recently, Hemant Mehta interviewed me about the Humanist Service Corps for his Friendly Atheist blog. Check out the piece if you haven’t […]

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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

Getting Youth to Take Action: Interview w/ Frank Fredericks, Founder of World Faith

January 2, 2015by Wendy Webber 1 Comment

Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith whose mission is to build a globally movement of religiously-diverse youth to counter religious violence and end global poverty. World Faith is […]

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Finding the Sacred in Service to Others

October 3, 2014by Esther Boyd 6 Comments

Being an interfaith chaplain, I attend many events that are focused on multireligious education and dialogue, and lead several such events with my own students. A very popular activity for these […]

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