Since being stationed in the town of Mindo for my service portion of SST, I’ve noticed a big cultural difference between U.S. Mennonites and Ecuadorian “Mindo-nites” – pun intended 🙂 approaches to life. There’s a palpable sense of serenity and…
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Saying Goodbye to ARI
May 19 2023
Kyle gives a final thank you to the ARI community
by Kyle Hufford – Associate Professor of Communication
I cannot believe our two plus weeks is over. It has been a hectic, crazy, challenging and rewarding two weeks. We really feel like we became a part of the Asian Rural Institute community. Like I said last night during our presentation, I cannot be more proud and happy with the work these students accomplished. They mostly did not fully anticipate and understand how much work we would do. Both the filmmaking and the farm work. However, they kept their positive attitudes and kept at it. It truly inspired me to see them embrace the project and take ownership over this project.
For our presentation we put together a short video to show the community what we have been working on and to give them an idea of what the final project might look like. Our TA Jeremiah Sherrill put most of it together along with help from our two producers Alyssa McDonald and Court Templeton.
Next stop Tokyo via the bullet train.
What Mindo Taught Me to See
A Day in the Life: Working on a Flower Farm
For my service, I work in Cayambe with an organization called FACE. Under FACE there are other organizations; Casa Hogar, Sumak, Centro Medico Emmanuel, and Forever Flowers. They work together to help break the cycle of abuse and neglect in…