Climate change represents an increasingly serious threat to the wellbeing of humans and the planet alike. Hurricanes, droughts, flash floods […]
Archive for ‘Go Abroad Fund’
Lilypads in Kenya
MY August trip to Nairobi, Kosele and Homa bay in Kenya partially funded by the GoAbroad Fund was an amazing […]
Summer in Berlin: An intellectual Stay in the Capital City of Germany
This summer, I attended the Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences. The prominent Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences and […]
HYPED in the land of a billion lights
This summer, closer to the end of July I went to Los Angeles, California together with the University of Edinburgh […]
Volunteering in Kenya with VSO ICS
I spent a blissful summer in Kenya thanks to the PGAF fund. I was based in a very rural area […]
Looking at how drinking water and wastewater is treated in Armenia
This summer I was working on a potable water treatment internship offered by the university. I wanted to see how […]
The European Universities Debating Championship in Novi Sad, Serbia
I was awarded the PGAF along with a number of other members of the Edinburgh Universities Debates Union. We used […]
My visit to Mainland China and Hong Kong
Last June, I attended the 16th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Quality-of-Life Society in Hong Kong to present […]
Visiting Ottawa for my first international conference
The first international conference I have attended was in Ottawa, Toronto. Thanks to the Principal’s Go Abroad Fund I had […]
Envirocare Tanzania
This summer I spent 2 months volunteering with a Tanzanian NGO called Envirocare. The project involved visiting 21 schools throughout […]
