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By: Kathy Stinson
February 2, 2010
I’m sitting on the fourth floor balcony of the Cape Hotel in Monrovia in shorts and t-shirt listening to a mixture of surf and hotel generators, and the occasional honking of a motorcycle horn. It’s just after nine o’clock at night. African music has been added to the surf/generator mix [...]

We just finished day 2 and we are winding down on the balcony.  Kathy has a lot of writing to review.
I will explain a couple of challenges and start a discussion about the solution. I guess I have already come up with a solution for the first challenge.
Challenge 1:
We went art-supply shopping after the workshop [...]

Today other things struck me.  The numbers of young men in the streets all day are just hanging out - not working, not studying, not involved.  This is a concern for a nation that wants to get back up on its feet, that’s for sure.  I bought fruit today and marveled at the market - [...]

It is amazing here - so hot and humid that my notebooks are already warping!  I am in Liberia for sure - the smells of fire in the air, the noise, the distorted radio music, people lining the roads, the throngs of people everywhere, small stray dogs and big geckoes, fabulous trees and plants everywhere. 
 
I had [...]

Our Director of Development, Sean Maddox, and I have just gotten home from a trip to Liberia, where we officially launched CODE’s newest program, Reading Liberia, and helped facilitate a series of demonstration workshops for teachers on how to teach reading and writing.
We were joined by other external partners (Critical Thinking International, the Children’s Book [...]