Rok Kern review: “These experiences allowed me to become the person I am today”
How has working with CIF impacted you personally, professionally (if your career path might have been impacted) in your schooling (i.e done projects on Cambodia) and potential future (types of travel, how you travel, whether or not you are more ethically conscious...
Guest post: The Faces We’re Coming To Know – GOEL COMMUNITY
We, at Rok Kern, wanted to share this blog post because this is the sort of advocacy that we like to see from people who have done our trips! We hope you enjoy this blog as much as we did. Thank you to Lucinda for letting us share this excerpt! If you would like to learn more, we linked her blog at the bottom...
Testimonial: Acknowledging that just because we feel like we are making a difference doesn’t mean we are.
The Rok Kern team has been hosting a number of training and development workshops for Tatachilla Lutheran College over the last 3 years. Their year 11 team spent an afternoon with us as part of their wider school Service Learning experience in-country and the school has also participated in our one-day “How do I respond to poverty?” workshops and leadership forums in Australia. In this short...
Guest Post – Who is poor, who decides?
Anna’s House By Rachel Pieh Jones. “Anna’s house is made of aluminum and two of the three rooms have a roof. Goats and sheep wander freely through the courtyard where Anna’s mother cooks over a single gas burner, squatting on an overturned powdered milk can. An outsider could come to Anna’s home and declare her ‘poor.’ Why? She doesn’t have an air...