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March 8, 2013
For International Women’s Day, MIUSA recognizes and celebrates all women leaders with disabilities around the world who are revolutionizing the status of women and girls worldwide. View some of these amazing women in this slideshow. Be part of the revolution! Your donation supports our upcoming women with disabilities projects, including the Women’s Institute on Leadership [...]
April 27, 2012
“It is high time to broaden the opportunities for international service and diversify the teams of volunteers representing our country to the world” – Harris Wofford, former U.S. Senator and advocate for national service and volunteerism This entry is the first of a three-part series introducing three Harris Wofford Global Service Fellows with disabilities, [...]
March 8, 2012
For International Women’s Day, we’d like to share the story of Luu Thi Anh Loan, who participated in MIUSA’s Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability exchange in 2006. She recently returned to the United States as a Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) fellow. In her IFP Portrait, Loan talks about growing up in Vietnam [...]
January 12, 2012
Emma Verrill, who is currently teaching English in France, shares her guest viewpoint in this second post of a three-part series on the MIUSA Blog. Click here if you missed her first post, “A la troisieme, c’est la bonne!” I consider myself lucky to be teaching high school in France. My students are attentive, respectful, [...]
December 21, 2011
Over the past 30 years, we have created spaces that bridge communities and encourage new conversations. In some cases, these turn into on-going collaborations with real results – ideas spark, new organizations begin, projects start, and friendships are formed. There’s not a lot of glory in the behind-the-scenes work to plan these gatherings – it [...]
December 8, 2011
When Megan returned to Spain this year with a MIUSA Exchange Program, she had no idea she’d fall in love with a country she shared a tumultuous history with.
October 31, 2011
The Third Time is the Best! Emma Verrill, who uses a wheelchair and previously taught and studied abroad with CIEE in Rennes, France, will be writing a three-part series for the blog about her current time abroad. You can read more of Emma on her blog: Ma Vie Est Belle. I’m currently sitting outside [...]
October 17, 2011
Tomorrow will mark the two-month anniversary of my return from a summer spent in Ghana. Sometimes I still get flashbacks so vivid it’s like I’m walking the dusty streets of Accra again. I spent six weeks in Ghana as part of a program through the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism. From Monday to Friday, [...]
July 1, 2011
Photo credit, above: Darcy Kiefel Photography Over the past three months Ms. Manique Gunaratne, a MIUSA alumna from Sri Lanka who is blind, has represented women with disabilities in the international development arena throughout South Asia. In March, Manique participated with other renowned disability rights activists, development aid donors and recipients in a three-day seminar [...]
March 2, 2011
Volunteering abroad and ‘working holidays’ have become increasingly popular ways to travel and explore foreign cultures and lands. Whether it’s working within the coffee fields of Costa Rica or teaching English to children in Nepal, volunteers with disabilities have made their presence known as contributory global citizens. It could be said that volunteers with disabilities [...]
