by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2014 | Insider, Service, Summer 2014
“Sound it out. Sound it out.” “Take your time. Don’t skip over words.” These are instructions that adult native-English speakers rarely worry about while reading. They usually don’t focus on sounding out words or saying each individual letter. They just read. They...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 1, 2014 | Field Notes, Service, Spring 2014
“But young lady, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it? You cannot possibly make a difference.” The young woman listened, paused and then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, saying, “It made a...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Field Notes, Recent Articles, Service, Winter 2014
In 2012, 22-year-old Moroni Jesus Ramos Olague lived on the streets of Mexico City. His head was filled with dreams of one day studying in the United States. He was a skilled young man—he had graduated from high school at age 17 and had completed a course on computers...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Field Notes, Recent Articles, Service, Winter 2014
Ghana. Ecuador. India. These are three of ten sites across five continents where university students from the United States are traveling to administer vaccines, conduct anemia research, and assist people who are afflicted with leprosy. In the process, they are...
by Stowaway Magazine | Sep 1, 2013 | Fall 2013, Field Notes, Service
Leah Bonner, Carl Eschler, and Camille Larsen: a special-needs teacher, an electrician’s mate, and a stay-at-home mom. These three seem to have little in common, but their pasts are tied to one place—Ecuador. Each of these individuals volunteered with the Orphanage...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2013 | Field Notes, Service, Summer 2013
Ruth was kidnapped when she was nine years old. She had been poor—an orphan child who had spent much of her life scavenging for food in the littered streets of Cusco, Peru. Yet she longed for that life after she was towed five hundred miles away to a brothel outside...
