Aliza In The Field
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Hello everyone!
My name is Aliza, and this summer I will be traveling through Morocco, Spain and France as an In The Field representative for GlobalGiving.
I am currently a graduate student in Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program, where I study international relations and security. I did my undergrad at Northwestern University, where I studied journalism and Middle East studies, and then worked in journalism for a few years in Cairo, New York and New Jersey before returning to school.
A little about me: I love travel, good grammar, spicy food and British TV shows, and am a firm believer that there is no such thing as “bad” coffee. I studied abroad in Madrid and spent a little over a year living in Egypt, so I am incredibly excited to be headed back to both North Africa and Spain!
Aliza is in Morocco, Spain and France as a part of GlobalGiving’s In The Field program. Follow along at alizainthefield.tumblr.com or on Twitter @alizaapp.
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Our first site visit in France was at Rêves (means “dreams”), the French version of Make A Wish Foundation, at their offices just outside Lyon. We met with two staff members, Aurélie and Virginie, who showed us photos from many of the dreams that have been realized. Like in the US, the most common request is Disney (though of course here it’s Euro Disney in France). Some of the other interesting requests are to meet celebrities (Eva Longoria, Robert Pattinson), or are related to animals, like feeding a baby tiger or swimming with seals or dolphins. Rêves grants wishes to children and teens up to the age of 18, but they work with other groups and are able to refer the cases they can’t take.
Their project on our site is to help a teenage girl with a terminal illness meet a famous horse trainer, and it has already been fully funded. We are always glad to see a successful project, and we can’t wait to see what they’re going to post next!
Read more about this GlobalGiving project here (but no more donating, since it has been fully funded!): http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/meet-frederick-pignon-equine-handler/
Aliza is in Morocco, Spain and France as a part of GlobalGiving’s In The Field program. Follow along at alizainthefield.tumblr.com or on Twitter @alizaapp.
