My time in Liberia is quickly drawing to a close and as I find my days increasingly filled with intense writing sessions punctuated by bursts of distracted procrastination, it has been hard to get in all the blog posts I envisioned. I had big plans to write two posts entitled "Let's Talk About Sex" and "Desperately Seeking: Positive and Committed Role Models", but alas.
I am finishing the report that will by my final deliverable for my summer research consultancy and it is turning into a half fulfilling conclusion to my two month experience and half frustrated abbreviated form of so much more that I want to say. Basicallyy the major themes that I was able to pull out of the data on what is needed to better support girls to stay in and thrive in school are: academic success, positive support networks, building confidence and speaking out, life skills development, health promoting schools, and sustainable transformation. These themes form the basis of the case studies and report I am developing for the project and also build the beginnings of thesis brainstorming.
But for now, it is enough. (Especially as North Carolina summer beach nights beckon). So instead of posting some sort of nicely summed up thoughts on what I have learned this summer or how this experience has inspired me down new paths of inquiry...I post this. Beyonce really does say it so much better.
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