My husband is in Sierra Leone, and I am here. Since 2001, I’ve worked there for several months of the year to support primary school literacy education. For the rest of the time, I teach at Calvin.
The...
The social work department and campus ministries are pairing up with a school in Liberia to help equip social workers to deal with the aftereffects of the Ebola epidemic. The fundraising campaign was launched...
This week, a friend of mine from East Africa was asked whether or not he was worried about catching Ebola. This friend attends the University of Chicago. The state of Illinois has exactly zero cases of...
Ebola was first recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976. Though the outbreaks are generally small, the severity, as well as death rates of as high as 90 percent, makes the virus a big...
Since the beginning of March this year, an outbreak of the Ebola virus disease has been spreading through countries in West Africa. On Thursday evening, Calvin students joined the African Student Association...
Last Thursday, over 100 students, faculty and staff gathered throughout the day to pray for the troubling events occurring throughout the world, the Calvin students and alumni in the troubled areas and...
The worst Ebola outbreak in history hit West Africa this year with 3,000 cases reported so far in the countries of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. With Calvin students preparing to study abroad...
