Undergraduate Blog / Author: Renee Edwards

Disengaging from a default, deferred reality

Today is my last day at Verdenergia. At 1am, I will be on a flight to NY and then back at Babson on August 17th for RA training. I am in a constant state of joy, appreciation, excitement, and acceptance. The past 12 weeks have been more healing, more filled with love and thoughtfulness and…

Work Projects and Communication

Hello beautifuls!! It’s been a little while since our last correspondence. The past few weeks on the finca have been very exciting and a bit challenging, teaching me a lot of hands-on as well as interpersonal skills. I spent some time working in the gardens, digging up, re-designing, and replanting our garden beds with Douwe,…

Creating a Zero-Waste Environment

One of the first things I learned about permaculture upon arriving at Verdenergia is that permaculture requires an intimate relationship between people and their local communities. Permaculture also acknowledges that there is no such thing as waste. I have been accustomed to thinking of garbage as waste. I think many of us have. We pile…

Living Life on Purpose, Amazing People, Building Cob

Hi everyone!! Hope this day is bringing you much love and joy and excitement for who you are and who we all are. This past week has been amazing. I have been feeling an amazing sense of joy and peace, sleeping later at night and getting up earlier in the mornings, naturally. This space is…

Duties at BREC and preparing for 2nd Workshop on Developing Entreprneurs

I have been a bit behind on my posting, but I have been writing, so please, prepare for an influx of postings from me!! Throughout my internship with the Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center, (BREC), I have had a changing set of job responsibilities, based on filling the gap of what was needed for projects to progress.…

BREC 2nd Workshop for Developing Entrepreneurs

This July, BREC will be hosting its second Workshop for Developing Entrepreneurs, centered around the following theme: Improving Access to Finance. For my first two weeks of the internship, my assignments have been centered around preparing for this event. I have been working with the project directors in Rwanda, alumni Chris Smith ’09/M ’10 and…

Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center

Today concluded my second official week working with BREC this summer. I will divide this blog into two for reading purposes. This blog will discuss a few tasks I had to complete for BREC before my official internship start date. The next post will discuss what I have been doing for the past two weeks.…