Tag Archives: Mennonite Central Committee

Peace Corps program & training specialist for Africa

December 30, 2010 – 1:20 pm

Krista Rigalo, MA ’00 Arlington, Virginia Krista Rigalo arrived at EMU in the fall of 1998 with considerable international experience. She already held a master’s degree in agricultural education and had focused on agriculture in the Philippines as a Peace Corps volunteer there in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the mid-1990s, as a ...More

Founding director of JustaPaz, organization for peace in Portuguese-speaking world

December 30, 2010 – 12:40 pm

Alfiado Zunguza, MA ’99 Maputo, Mozambique Like many of his fellow students in CTP in the late 1990s, Alfiado Zunguza came from a country ripped apart by war – Mozambique. As a child, he lived for months without electricity or potable water. Motherless from age 6, he moved among relatives’ homes in search of education ...More

Building Schools

March 29, 2010 – 5:30 pm

Spreading Hope to 120,000 Afghan Children The two-hour car trip from her home in a suburb of Washington D.C. to graduate classes at EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding in Harrisonburg, Va., is a minor inconvenience for Suraya Sadeed, an Afghan-American woman who has spent days on horseback and foot to oversee the delivery of ...More

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