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The be-who-thy-be new age bullshit

I watched a well-intended speech today for fifteen year old level A students. The gist was that life happens according to your own internal clock, not according to the timetable imposed on us by society. It's okay not to be married at 30 or graduating after 25 or getting your first job at 27. Did ...

6 June, 2018

Kamiel Choi

age, education, pressure, speech, success

Activism, Essays, The good life

What is context?

I asked Miru what 배 'bae' and 눈 'nun' means. She says 'pear' and 'snow'. But in Korean, bae also means boat and nun also means eye. I tell her that it depends on the context. Context is the concept I want to explain to her today. "Papa what is that, context?" -"Context is a ...

23 February, 2018

Kamiel Choi

concept, context, education, language, Miru

Miru, The good life

Learning by improv theatre

17 April, 2017

Kamiel Choi

critical, education, father, learning, Miru, Theatre

Miru, The good life

On Education

Dear Miru, Today, I want to tell you about Education. Even if we would want them to, our children don't accept the concept of schooling as the transfer of a canon of established facts. They are so much used to Wikipedia and Google that it would be practically impossible to convince them that carrying knowledge ...

15 January, 2016

Kamiel Choi

education

Miru

Alphabet

n she has spotted another A. Together, we admire the slanted serifs, or robust legs of the glyphs she has found in a shop window, a street name or on the license plate of a car. Today, her world is now full of As, where yesterday there were not even bovine heads. Miru is absorbed ...

12 January, 2016

Kamiel Choi

education, empathy, learning, reading

Miru

The writing is on the wall

An almost three-year old girl draws on everything. Miru takes her color pencils and makes her mark on the vocabulary cards that her mother has prepared for her early childhood education. Her third birthday is less than a month away and we think it's great when she learns a lot now, while her need to ...

11 December, 2015

Kamiel Choi

drawing, education, toddler

Miru

Presentation in Khabarovsk

Presentation in Khabarovsk
January 22th. KhabarovskFor an interested audience of young shipbuilding students at a technical college, we hold our presentation of Charity Travel. We are glad to see that our story inspires, and can become a modest part of a student's motivation to learn foreign languages.

On a beautiful freezing January day ...

1 February, 2011

Kamiel Choi

education, English, Khabarovsk, Russia teaching

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Ñanta

Fundación Ñanta, Sucre, BoliviaSeptember 19-20. Sucre, BoliviaThere are about 6,000 working children in Sucre, and half of them are independent, working as shoe-shiners, car-washers or selling items on the street. They often work under terrible conditions and drop out of school. Foundations such as Ñanta guide them towards a hopeful future through cultural activities, healthcare, ...

25 September, 2010

Kamiel Choi

Bolivia, children, education

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Asociación Sucrense de Ecologia

Asociación Sucrense de Ecologia
Sucre. September 17, 2010.
Environmental education and awareness creation is important in a country like Bolivia, that is sitting on a wealth of natural resources and needs its citizens to be thoughtful about exploitation and environmental issues in general - for the sake of future generations.

Name:Asociación ...

19 September, 2010

Kamiel Choi

Bolivia, ecology, education

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Microfinance in Western Vitu Levu (MFW)

Microfinance in Western Vitu Levu (MFW)Lautoka, Fiji. August 17-19, 2010. The main problem for small entrepreneurs in Fiji is affordable access to finances. The government runs a number of microfinance schemes but seems to be backing out and expecting them to be self-sustainable, which is a tough challenge. In successful cases, small businesses mean that ...

23 August, 2010

Kamiel Choi

education, Fiji, microfinance, Pacific

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KNGO

KNGO CambodiaBatambang, Cambodia. June 17th - 20th, 2010

20 June, 2010

Kamiel Choi

Asia, Battambang, Cambodia, education, project, vocational training

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Saigon Children’s Charity

Saigon's Children CharityHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam. June 15th, 2010SCC supports children of empoverished families with a scholarschip program and cooperates with a number of local schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

We support three children and do some interesting labor at a school in the city: we clean up schoolbooks with erasers ...

17 June, 2010

Kamiel Choi

Asia, children, education, HCMC, Saigon, scholarship, Vietnam

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Butterflychildren

Muang Sing, Laos. May 20th - 23rd, 2010The butterfly children's center in Muang Sing, northern Laos, provides scholarships to children and functions as a drop-in center for underprivileged children.

We buy stationary for the center, do workshops with the children, and make a monetary donation.

NameButterfly Children Development Center and School, Muang ...

23 May, 2010

Kamiel Choi

Asia, butterflychildren, children, education, Laos, Muang Sing

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Vision for the lost souls ministries

Vision for the lost souls, NairobiNairobi, Kenya. December 7th, 2009The Vision for the Lost Souls orphanage in Nairobi is well managed and has received considerable media attention. The director is also supporting a school in Ciongombé.

We hold a sensitizing session for 187 kids and show them a movie with our pocket projector.

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7 December, 2009

Kamiel Choi

Africa, children, education, human rights, Kenya, Nairobi, orphanage

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