Hi everyone! While we had some free time during our layover in Washington, DC, we wanted to make sure to share the website that the Periclean Scholars Class of 2009 put together. It's located here: http://org.elon.edu/pericleanscholars2009/ and includes a link to a short video postcard they filmed during a preparatory trip to Zambia last summer (that link can be found at the bottom of the page). There's also a ton of great information about Project Pericles itself, a program that engages college students, over the course of their entire college career, from academic and service perspectives in working to combat human suffering around the world. It's really an incredible program and...
Hi everyone! Welcome to our blog! Technology willing, we’ll be posting updates throughout our trip to work with Habitat for Humanity in Kawama, Zambia, alongside Elon University's Periclean Scholars Class of 2009. We could not be more thrilled about this experience or excited about the chance to share it with you here! To start off the blog, I want to share a reflection on service from Reverend Sam Wells, Dean of the Duke University Chapel, which I found particularly interesting. Wells identifies three broad ways for a person to try and fix any of the world’s many wrongs. They are: 1. Working for : This is the conventional, and least effective, model of social action: doing for someone what...