By Renee Edwards | August 9, 2012
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…
By Renee Edwards | July 19, 2012
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,…
By Renee Edwards | June 28, 2012
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…
By Renee Edwards | June 18, 2012
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…
By Renee Edwards | June 11, 2012
I posted this yesterday but upon looking again, I don’t see it. Here I go again!! (Yay to saving things in a Word document first!!) Hi all!! Sorry for a late first post. I’ve been working at Verdenergia for 3 weeks as of today, but I’ve had some difficulty connecting to the internet and also…
By Renee Edwards | July 27, 2011
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.…
By Renee Edwards | June 15, 2011
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…
By Renee Edwards | June 14, 2011
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.…