2011 Global Seva Challenge: Remembering to Breathe
Monday, February 13th, was our ninth day on our 2011 Global Seva Challenge immersion trip in Haiti and the second of a two day “rest” in middle of our trip. The previous day had been spent inhaling the color, smells, and music of Carnival in Jacmel. Monday we planned to spend hiking up to Bassin Bleu–a series of waterfalls and pools in the mountains above the city–and lounging on the beach in Jacmel. In order to reach the falls, we transferred into pick-up trucks, which had been modified with benches built into the beds. The necessity of the pick-up trucks [...]
OTM Founder Hala Khouri on EYI, Serving Urban Youth, and the 20-Year Bloods and Crips Truce
Off the Mat, Into the World’s Empowered Youth Initiative is a weeklong, in-field training, working to reverse the disruptive cycles facing urban and suburban youth in Los Angeles. We bugged Hala Khouri, head of OTM’s Empowered Youth Initiative, about the program she helped craft, the amazing partners she’s collaborating with, and the special event participants will attend this year. (It’s filling up fast. Sign up here.) Off the Mat, Into the World: What is the Empowered Youth Initiative? Hala Khouri: This is a 7-day on-the ground training for people who are interested in working with under served communities. We’ve teamed [...]
Our Global Seva Challenge Trip to Haiti: Photos!
Last year, through our 2011 Global Seva Challenge, dozens of incredible men and women raised $376,000 for on-the-ground projects and organizations in Haiti. The money raised will support efforts in job creation, micro lending, sustainable development, and child services in the country. See here for a complete list of our partners. Last month, OTM founders, Seane Corn and Suzanne Sterling, took a group of our Global Seva participants (those who completed the challenge by raising $20,000!) on a two week immersion to meet the people and groups their hard work will support. Luckily, the talented Matt Peyton, from Bluevine Collective [...]
2011 Global Seva Challenge: Spellbound at Haiti’s Carnival
Carnival in Haiti is bustling with colors and sounds, and nowhere are colors more vivid than in the Southern seaside town of Jacmel. The city’s paper mache artisans design new costumes every year for the parade: devils, dinosaurs, animals, buildings, and politicians! Traditionally the costumes are created to poke fun at political figures, corporations, policemen, bankers, and other authority figures. During the day our 2011 Global Seva Challenge group walked around, looking at all of the different paper mache masks and costumes. What I loved was that the creation process was not hidden. There were no surprises. The artisans are [...]
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