Encouraging everyone to abandon their friends, family, and community, and head for greener pastures might be a solid course of action for an individual person or household, but it is suicidal as a regional economic development strategy.
It is also a recipe for social and political disintegration. Even after tens of thousands of the best and the brightest have left, these cities will not be disappearing. The rest of the population, now poorer and more uneducated, and the place, with its worsening problems, will remain. As Alan Mallach says :. As a nation, we must decide what we want the future of these cities to be. Our present course relegates many cities to a sort of limbo, where, despite their best efforts, they drift gradually downward, losing jobs, becoming gradually poorer, and offering progressively less hope for those who live there.
Is that the only vision that we have for hundreds of small cities and towns that dot the American heartland? That would be, in my opinion, tragic. These cities are not disposable places, roadkill on the highway of capitalist creative destruction. They are real places, with rich histories, full of real people. They have real assets. As a public policy response, even the most sophisticated versions of this argument are naive, simplistic, and incomplete.
We need better jobs for the vast majority of the population that is not ultra-ambitious, is risk-averse, and will never get an advanced education or training. We need to rethink our current priors regarding trade, technology, and automation. We need to question the process of creative destruction, when the reinvention that it promises does not materialize.
We need to refocus national, state, and local economic development policy to adopt a place-based orientation - one that recognizes that people need stability, order, and community. Expecting everyone to be a rugged individualist and an economic free agent who is willing to uproot their family and move to a new place whenever their corporate overlords tell them that they must, simply runs counter to human nature.
Life is a delicate balance between order and chaos. There is such a thing as too much order. But there is also such a thing as too much chaos. We ignore that reality at our peril. Over the past 20 years, the Libertarian consensus in the upper echelons of both political parties has won out, and has made peace with the idea that the economic future of the country will mean the destruction of local economies, more spatial inequality, and the continued hollowing-out of most legacy communities, as wealth and opportunity continue to filter from these places to just a handful of superstar cities, and from urban neighborhoods in the core to the outer suburbs on the periphery.
The people in government and business that run this country want you to accept that all of this is just the way it is. And neither should they. Now I am fulfilling the dream from ten years ago about having a business that delivers social impact at its core. People call me Nat. I grew up and studied in the southern province of Thailand, named Nakhon Si Thammarat. It was a life-changing experience that made me realize that I loved meeting new people. Upon graduation, I applied for a fellowship program with Teach For Thailand Foundation since becoming a teacher for underprivileged children for two years before I continued my career in education and community development.
Education is the key to advancement in human history and we all need to contribute and put more effort into this field. Education and social gaps remain a big challenge for Thailand. Raising awareness and changing mindset towards the deaf or PWDs People with Disabilities is also not enough—it needs action.
As we are approaching the 4th season of EDeaf project, our main mission is to provide a learning space that is safe, productive and positive space for these individuals: hearing and non-hearing students, volunteers, teachers, parents, private sectors, government authorities, international organizations, etc.
I believe in the power of collaboration among our YSEALI members and that we can contribute and support one another for the greater good of the region. Partnership is one of the keys to success. The more people get in on the change, the faster that change will proceed. This drives me to support the movement and to be a part of it. Technify is a platform that connects top tech talents at U. With the overarching goal of helping bridge the digital divide, we aim to equip students with practical learning opportunities while helping our partners access tech talents across geographical boundaries and time zones.
Thus far, we have successfully launched 10 projects with partners from Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines involving about 70 U. As we refine our partnership model, we hope to reach more student tech communities and other organizations from different countries.
The digital divide. As Covid catalyzed digitalization among multinational companies, NGOs and social enterprises SE —mostly medium-sized organizations—are often victims of the widening digital divide in SEA, despite the fact that they are the ones serving the most vulnerable members of our society.
As verified by Mckinsey , the paucity of local tech talents and technical barriers to digitalization are the two main challenges faced by change-makers in SEA. It began with an idea to help college students get involved with social impact work in the frontline in light of the pandemic.
As college students passionate about tech for good, we noticed how difficult it was for students to connect with NGOs from developing communities who are often faced with the impacts of the pandemic. Thus, we envision Technify to be a mutual growth platform—as students gain invaluable hands-on experience via tech projects, our social impact partners explore digitization through collaboration.
We aim to broaden the access to tech talents and resources for NGOs and social enterprises in Southeast Asia and other developing countries. As we refine our partnership model between students and our impact partners, we hope to do our part in bridging the digital divide faced by NGOs and social enterprises across developing regions in the world. More importantly, the funding and mentorship we received from YSEALI allowed us to expand our reach and on-board more college talents who are eager to learn, volunteer and contribute across different time zones.
We have successfully on-boarded more than 60 students and launched 8 projects with partners from Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, all within just two months of our platform launch. The importance of mutual commitment in remote collaboration.
As each Technify project spans at least 3 different time zones, we have come to learn and appreciate the significant role of mutual commitment towards the collective project goals in the success of each project. Virtual collaboration is challenging. However, we managed to not only get things up and running but also on-board more than 60 U. Communication is key, and mutual commitment is the door to sustaining a project through the ups and downs of virtual collaboration.
We provide three levels of literacy instruction: basic literacy, advanced literacy, and applied literacy. Sokola Tengger is a culturally relevant educational program aimed at improving the literacy and advocacy abilities of Tengger Indigenous children and youth living in the BTS National Park.
Basic literacy in Sokola Tengger consists of learning to read, write, and count in the context of Ranupani, such as learning to read and write using local dialect and counting the potato crop on their field.
Applied literacy is the use of knowledge to solve difficulties in everyday life at Ranupani, such as learning about fertilizer application from guest teachers, cultural classes, and English for tourism. Sokola Tengger in Ranupani has recently completed the Applied Literacy stage. Contextual literacy encompasses not just what is learned, but also when and where it is learned.
Teenagers are welcome to come in their spare time after completing their chores to assist parents in the fields. Learning can take place anywhere, such as in their potato fields, on the lake where they play, or at their home.
In , East Java was the Java region with the highest illiteracy percentage in Indonesia. And one of them is in Ranupani, where, despite knowing the school, many of them have dropped out. Sokola Institute places a strong emphasis on education, particularly for indigenous peoples, who are marginalized not only by custom but also by education. The community is dealing with a major issue.
The difficulties in Ranupani are numerous, ranging from land being an Enclave community bordered by National Parks , environment, and tourism. Improved access to education that is contextual and pro-community to the indigenous Tenggers.
Expansion of the Sokola Methods to other areas in Indonesia. We teachers in the field merely carry out the positive things that YSEALI has offered as a bridge to realizing our dream so that we can continue to follow the Ranupani community. We really appreciate your emphasis on education challenges, particularly in Southeast Asia. The Ranupani community is also very supportive of this activity, particularly in the teaching and learning process, which makes it much easier for the Sokola team to continue working even in the midst of a pandemic.
We learned from them that lifelong learning does not have to be achieved through formal schooling, which they lack access to. School for life, on the other hand, is a direct application of education in their daily lives.
That education entails not only reading the text but also understanding the context in which it is presented. Of course, the Sokola Tengger program, which is still in operation today, cannot be considered as part of our success story.
Understand the community itself if you want to perform community education and mentoring initiatives. What is beneficial to you may not be beneficial to others. Why did you decide to start this project? What are your goals for this project? What have you accomplished and implemented so far? April: we completed two versions of social-emotional training modules one for trainers and one for participants , launched the renewed version of our website and selected four volunteers to help us in executing our project.
May: we started the selection process for trainer and mentor positions. We also started to advertise our scholarship program through social media.
June: we hired 8 psychologists for trainer and mentor positions. We also selected 10 pairs of scholarship awardees from various provinces in Indonesia. July - September: we held three online training and four mentoring sessions. By the end of September, all participating teams finalized and submitted their intervention proposal to Dayadik. All proposals were reviewed by the Dayadik team, and we immediately transferred the grants as approved.
October: the participants implement their intervention design in their respective schools. About the project: During this program, we are happy because of the enthusiasm of our participants. About the internal team: Our project still stays on track with our initial plan and timelines, but not without challenges.
The project will consolidate the scattered SGBV data across the country and visualize them in graphics, while incorporating storytelling techniques to communicate the data meaningfully. The ultimate goals of the project is to accelerate gender development and civic engagement for a solid push for policy change in Thailand. We started this project because we recognized the problem and it resonated with our core values and skills.
He ought to be used to them, after all these centuries and yet They weren't always the same. Sometimes, it was a girl, striking his head with a rock. Sometimes, it was her, golden keftka and white hair flowing in the wind, piercing his heart with a dagger. In some dreams, he lashed out, his shadows cutting you in half before you had even finished exhumating him. In some others, your body hit the ground for entirely different reasons, as he pulled you under him and buried himself in the sweet, sweet heat between your legs, feral and desperate to feel something other than cold and darkness and pain.
Those were the worst nightmares, not the ones of him dying but the ones of him hurting you, of them murdering either you, or this tentative, fragile, beautiful thing between the both of you before it even had the chance to be born. But in waking life, he hadn't done any of those things. In waking life, he had been too weak, too confused to do anything but cling to you as you had dragged him for what had somehow felt like an eternity and mere minutes to the little, hidden cabin that was your home.
Or at least had become your home after you had found him. In waking life, all he had to do was turn on his bed to see you, to reassure himself you were safe and sound, sleeping next to him.
The way your lashes fluttered, casting trembling, long shadows across your cheeks as your eyes moved behind your eyelids. At the way your chest moved with every breath, air filling your precious lungs.
At the soft thump of your heart, pumping blood, precious life force into every cell of your warm body. The way your skin seemed to glow under the moonlight, barely restrained power fighting to break free He had always known you were grisha, your inmensurable power calling out to his ever since you had first put your shaking hands on him, an electrifying undercurrent of something strumming under your flesh, reeking of merzost.
What exact kind of grisha though remained a mystery to him. You had astounding knowledge of human bodies, yet you were not a heartrender.
He had seen you turn old animal bones into blades sharper and stronger than grisha steel, yet you were not a durast. Had seen you conjure up clouds of white dust capable of choking a man, yet you were not a squaller.
You had healed his own wounds time and time again and yet he was sure you were not a healer. He had almost ask you, once, when he was still feeling raw and new and bemused, but the look in your eyes rendered him unable to voice the rest of his words.
He had recognised that look, had been the one wearing it many, many times, before and after the fold, when other grisha asked him about his powers and he didn't dare showing him because his power was scary and unnatural and evil.
But then, what were you doing that night in the black forest, the twisted, dangerous woods that had grown in the singularity of what had once been the center of the fold?
What had you buried in the inky mud, before pulling him out of it? What dark perversion of the little science animated him even now, heart unbeating, flesh as cold as permafrost?
What kind of sacrifice had the making demanded to release him from his eternal torment and regurgitate him into a body that had burned long ago? A tiny, guttural sound, the most ridiculous and adorable of snores left your mouth then, interrupting the gloomy train of his thoughts, making him crack an involuntary smile.
No, he was being unfair. What right did he had to ask those questions, when you never asked why the shadows in the room seemed to deepen when his mood got dark?
Never so far as raised an eyebrow at the way he hid from any grisha in second army uniform? Never confronted him for the way he never bowed when he walked by one of Sankta Alina's altar If I could slip inside your dreams, I would, so you didn't leave me, not even in your sleep
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