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-18 posts tagged "ISSLP"
Joe Andrews | Thursday, March 7, 2019
While fans in attendance at last week’s Bengal Bouts finals believed they were witnessing the end of a four-month boxing season, the men in the ring, gasping and bleeding for a common cause, saw something quite different — another beginning to the larger, seemingly endless fight to protect Christian minorities in Bangladesh. According to Bengal
Nicole Simon | Thursday, November 15, 2018
With the championship round to take place Thursday night, the women of Baraka Bouts are preparing for the end of the 2018 season. Notre Dame Women’s Boxing Club, more commonly known as Baraka Bouts, is a group that serves as an athletic team, social club and charity organization. In many ways, it is “uniquely Notre
Joe Nolan | Monday, October 29, 2018
This is a proposal for stationing people experiencing homelessness in South Bend outside our campus dining halls as a method for a more holistic educational experience at Notre Dame. The homeless people would stand at the doors of North and South Dining Halls, holding signs like they do at street corners, begging for money like
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
I have no idea what I want to do with my life. Sometimes, I’m able to think up a possible post-graduate plan and career, but most times I just get lost in my thoughts and end up scrapping every plan. And living in Bangladesh for two months didn’t lay out the rest of my life
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
I think the International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) has probably been one of the best experiences I have ever had. Initially, I participated in the ISSLP because I had never left the country before, and I thought it was a great way to do service — after all, I really enjoyed my Summer Service
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, September 27, 2018
I remember the first time I saw the wall in a dream. It was about five weeks after I had relocated for the summer through the Center for Social Concern’s International Summer Service Learning Program and I was finally feeling confident enough in my daily life that it was becoming my dreamscape. The adjustment had
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Have you ever held the weight of a dead body? I never thought I would until a month into my service with the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India through an ISSLP. A short while after I had entered Kalighat, the home for the destitute and dying, I was informed a male resident had died
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 2, 2017
This past summer something called me to live in Komga, South Africa working with Open Arms Home for Children. Call it what you will: God, the Universe, a good application to the Center for Social Concerns’ International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP), my imagination, etc. But something beyond myself brought me 5,065 miles from my home in St. Louis, Missouri, to
Selena Ponio | Friday, September 29, 2017
The goal of the International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) is for students to become aware of complex social issues that will help them discern their responsibility as global citizens in our world, director of international engagement at the Center for Social Concerns Rachel Tomas Morgan said. ISSLP is a community-based learning abroad program Tomas
Letter to the Editor | Friday, September 22, 2017
“When we go into the street, every man thinks of himself: He sees, but does not look; he hears, but does not listen. … People pass each other, but they do not encounter each other.” Perhaps this accusation is harsh. But perhaps it is also true. It comes from a morning meditation of Pope Francis