I want to take a second to highlight the fact that I am working here in Zambia. I’m not on sabbatical or vacation, this isn’t an extended leave or loaned employee program, this is a part of my job. I’m lucky enough to work at a place that has only one mission—to improve the human condition—and is consistently searching for new ways to live it every day. The most recent example: Redwoods sending two of its employees to work with Habitat for Humanity in Zambia. There’s so much potential and need for this kind of action by for-profit corporations. Non profits and NGOs are strapped, especially in this financial crisis, and governments aren’t always effective and can’t do it all. On the other hand...
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...