Category Archives: Global Awareness in Action
Gender in Cambodia: A College Essay by Hailey
Hailey traveled with us on our high school summer program in Cambodia in 2012, focusing on gender and the arts in a country recovering from the devastating effects of genocide. She recently shared this college essay she wrote about her … Continue reading
We Imagined Mud Huts: Student Poetry from Rwanda
Timur, a junior at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York, traveled to Africa with us this past summer on our high school summer program in Rwanda. Focusing on public health access and development, he wrote several poems and … Continue reading
Cambodia Living Arts Festival in NYC, Putney Video
We’re very excited about Cambodia Living Arts’, the arts organization with whom our high school summer program in Cambodia works, upcoming festival in New York City. The festival is called Season of Cambodia: A Living Arts Festival, and it will … Continue reading
Featured Leader: Brian Orland
Brian Orland, one of the co-leaders of our high school summer development program in India, is currently studying climate change and river management in the rural Brahmaputra River Basin in India through the Fulbright Program. He is a
Putney Videos: Cambodian Women Defying Tradition
Dana, Sarah, and Hailey, students on our high school summer program in Cambodia, completed this documentary film on Cambodian women working to close the gender gap of opportunity in their society. Take a look!
Notes from Programming: Alex Heads to Brazil
Associate Director Alex Ossola traveled to South America this summer to lay the groundwork for our first ever high school summer development program in Brazil! While Putney has run Community Service programs in Brazil for a number of years, … Continue reading
Featured Alumni: Emily’s Rwanda Articles
Emily Hagen traveled with us this past summer as a member of a high school travel program to Rwanda. A budding journalist for both her high school newspaper and her local community paper in Woodmere, NY, Emily brought her … Continue reading
Trek Through Ladakh | Global Action India
One of our high school summer programs in India just completed a trek through the Ladakh region of northern India as part of their high school summer program abroad in India. Here are some of the amazing photos from the … Continue reading
A Bike Ride Through Battambang: Global Action Cambodia
Join students from our high school summer program in Cambodia as they put together a portrait of a woman they met recently while on a bike ride through rural Battambang. This particular travel program for high school students focuses on … Continue reading
Finding Strength: A College Essay by Tori Callahan
Tori Callahan traveled to Rwanda this past summer as a member of our Global Awareness in Action program in Africa for high school students focusing on Community Health Care. She spent her summer meeting with NGOs in Rwanda, learning about … Continue reading