The Fairtrade Experience of Bennett Kushnick, Children In Crossfire Intern In Our Development Education Department. “On Thursday, March 9, 2017, I attended the Fairtrade fortnight event at Ulster University’s Magee campus library. There were a range of Fairtrade treats or treats made using Fairtrade ingredients. The treats included Fairtrade chocolate, Fairtrade brownies, Fairtrade bananas and…
Meet Alyssa who has interned with our Development Education team for these past 8 weeks. Alyssa shares her journey with us, and how working here has helped challenge her “extremely critical assumptions about charities” and “develop so much respect for Development Education and the power it has to connect our work in Africa to the…
SARAH KILLEN As part of our Interactive Media Arts Degree we each had to take part in a client brief for a charity organisation. The ‘Children in Crossfire’ brief immediately appealed to me as it is involved many of my key interests such as developmental learning, character design and interactive storytelling, it turned out to…
Before this internship, I had never really thought about the word compassion. I thought of it as synonymous with the words kind, caring and nice. The words we would just throw around while describing something happy or lovely. Not like that’s a bad thing, but not particularly meaningful either. Over these past few weeks, I…