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Giving the World Room to Read
written by Alexandra Ruperti – While he was trekking in Nepal, a teacher and his 450 students changed the life of Microsoft Executive John Woods. The teacher’s simple plea to “someday come back with books” so he could better teach his impoverished students resonated with Woods and which became his own personal challenge. Almost every [more...]
Religious “Togetherness”
written by Alexandra Ruperti – From 1998 to 2008 the Poso district, on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia suffered from crippling civil unrest. What began as a brawl between two young men, one Protestant and one Muslim, during a tense political campaign turned into a full out religiously polarized crusade – pitting Christians against [more...]
“Theatre of the Oppressed”
written by Alexandra Ruperti – Augusto Boal (1931-2009) was a man who fully embodied the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s and carried the drive for social betterment with him till the end of his life. He is best known for the development of “Theatre of the Oppressed” – an overarching theatrical form used for radical [more...]