My visit to the ICRC delegation in the Philippines
In November 2010, I wrote an article on youth and the Mexican drug-related conflict as seen through Twitter to apply to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition. It turns out I was selected, along with a few other young writers from all over the world, to visit an ICRC mission to report on the situation of…
After going on about the dishes I thought were the very best food I had on the trip, I think it’s time to talk about vegetables. All the purple vegetables above are eggplants, some smaller in size than zucchini. I never found out why they are harvested earlier than the ones consumed in the west;…
I’m no food critic (what makes someone not a foodie, or food-obsessed, but a food critic?), and my visit to the Philippines was not designed around food – in fact, I don’t think the eating I did during the days I spent there was really that representative of the Pinoy diet itself. However, it was…
(In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest of the posts.) I described in my…
(this is the second part of this post) (In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest…
(In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest of the posts.) One of my favorite experiences…
(In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest of the posts.) The way we perceive beneficiaries…
(In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest of the posts.) Being immersed in an environment…
(In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest of the posts.) The world I move in…
(In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest of the posts.) I am very bad at…
(In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest of the posts.) (One of the main partners…
(In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest of the posts.) A few months after I…
(In January 2011, and thanks to the ICRC Young Reporter Competition, I had the fortune of visiting the ICRC mission in the Philippines to report on the situation of youth. This post is part of a series I wrote on this visit. Click here to see the rest of the posts.) In 2007, I was an…
(August 2011 update: this post is participating in Blog Carnival: Mexico – Citizenry, Violence and Blogs , which is organized by one of my favorite sources, Global Voices. To find the links of other posts that are participating in this carnival, a good source is the #vocesmx search on Twitter.) In October 2010, I wrote this article to participate the ICRC…