Colorado students deliver drone to Rwandan national park
Ryan Grundy, who is associate director of the Global Livingston Institute, adds Rwandan President Paul Kagame welcomed the two recent graduates of a Denver School of Science and Technology campus, the park’s manager and others to his home and farm on Sunday.
22. Polè. Polè.
It is the first story that our charming Tanzanian guides Amadeus and Joelle tell us as we begin our five day ascent up Kilimanjaro. Legend has it that a trekker wanted to know how much further to the top of the mountain. After repeatedly inquiring, their guide finally replied “22“… every time they asked.
Livingston Fellows take nonprofits from success to significance
One of the first, 2005 Livingston Fellow Jamie Van Leeuwen, now senior adviser to Gov. John Hickenlooper, used his grant to visit Uganda and Rwanda, where after seeing firsthand the need for people “to do more listening and thinking before acting,” he created the Global Livingston Institute.
Spreading knowledge through music
Music has long been considered “the universal language of mankind.” Even before 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow noted it as such, music—the origins of which are widely unknown but date back much further than any of the five Fireside Poets—has forever connected people, place and time.
Ugandan Performance Metrics
Last year a group of extraordinary musicians from Colorado, New Orleans and Nashville came together for the First Annual Entusi Music Fest on Lake Bunyonyi in Southern Uganda. Performing with a cadre of talented and wild local musicians and rising stars on the East Africa music scene…
Ugandan Performance Metrics
Everyone could feel it. An energy that was palpable. A feeling that was indescribable. A realization that right now you are part of a moment that you could never possibly explain to anyone back home in a way that would allow them to understand exactly what just happened.