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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By barceloca | Views [281] | Scholarship Entry
-When did you eat last time? -I don’t remember… -Yesterday? -No.. - The day before yesterday?-no.. Sometimes they eat once a week, sometimes, if they are lucky, twice. With millions of Euros NGO spend in Haiti, Haitians still don’t have food. I went ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By helen4eva82 | Views [301] | Scholarship Entry
At first glance, it sets one salivating. The contents of the plate; an assortment of three colours; pale and dark green lumped vegetables mixed with a soft- yellow -hued- sauce- look-alike that has the fairly thick consistency of melting butter. The ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By abruckne | Views [1668] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Friends Road The wok twirls atop a makeshift stove, clashing against its metal rim. Flames lick the sides as bean sprouts leap and spinach wilts. Nearby, recycled plastic containers filled with sauces and spices await the chef’s ladle. A spoonful of ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By markc | Views [292] | Scholarship Entry
I clock two soldiers through half opened sleepy eyes; I hadn’t heard them enter my 3.5mx3.5m residence during the night. Expressionless stares match grey standard issue tunics, but I’m busted! They notice movement and take action. Curtains are flung open ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By mlambert | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
At the edge of the world, I am torn between two feelings: emptiness and hope. Is this how it was at the beginning, before we journeyed, before our footprints marked every corner of the globe? Daunting, vermillion peaks rise from cerulean depths to salute ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By jyothinarayana | Views [222] | Scholarship Entry
Since childhood I remember how I enjoyed sleeping late into the morning but one cool morning, out of routine, I woke up early and accompanied my father for a morning walk. we started on our brand new white color Mahindra rodeo, to reach K.B.R national ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By lauraoxley | Views [325] | Scholarship Entry
Lights dim. For a moment we are in total darkness. Heavenly scents rise from the wide pan we huddle around – lemon and orange citrus flavours fused with coffee beans mingle with the sharper tang of the alcoholic orujo. Then someone strikes a match, ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By tao | Views [248] | Scholarship Entry
Tumultuous volcanic liquid bubbles close to eruption point, churning masses of swarthy peppercorns and scarlet chillies around in brisk, violent circles. Rows of raw meat and vegetables lie calmly, waiting for the imminent chaos, while scalding steam ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By aishasojourn | Views [216] | Scholarship Entry
Its early April in Guinea and there’s only one thing on everyone’s mind: mango season! In Guinea, mangoes are a national obsession. As the season approaches, the branches look like Christmas trees, laden and weighed down with mango ornaments. Guineans ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By mayza | Views [647] | Scholarship Entry
In the season when days get terribly hot and the air is so heavy that one can barely breathe, there is nothing better than a dewy glass of fresh mango juice mixed with melting ice cubes. Sip by sip your skin is forgetting about the dry blackish dust dancing ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By toddstern | Views [160] | Scholarship Entry
It’s 10 a.m., and the jug of Puro is being passed around as if it’s fresh-brewed coffee. Ernesto warned me to be careful of his Uncle’s moonshine, but how could I say no to my hosts for the weekend? We’ve traveled two hours on winding mountain roads ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By missouri_the_world | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry
A silver cloud escapes my lips as I turn and watch the girl behind the dingy glass doors. The exaggerated movements of her narrow lips. The wild abandonment of her gesturing hands. She is surrounded by an orchestra of indistinct chatter buzzing disjointed ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By g_flys | Views [493] | Scholarship Entry
The ferry ploughs and skips across the Bosphorus,
glittering like a broken mirror in the sun; the fracture between two
continents. I stand on the deck with my face in the wind, eyes half closed ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By bushboy | Views [130] | Scholarship Entry
I stood lost. Osaka Station sprawled around me like a stirred nest of ants. I felt suddenly anxious, even claustrophobic and fled up several flights of stairs, unheeding of direction, until I burst, like a swimmer breaking the surface, into the heart ... Read more >
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | By jungle-dan | Views [129] | Scholarship Entry
Red embers float high above the fire this evening, there’s not a hint of wind and the air is warm but tracing the glow upward on this seemingly clear night, something is amiss. The sky should be littered with stars, not the darkness above. A crack of ... Read more >
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