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...seeds not only of a more effective rebuilding effort in Haiti, but of a new development strategy that's less about top-down, welfare-style aid and more about economy-stimulating engagement of the grassroots. "The old, more paternalistic way of doing charity was easier," says Brazilian aid worker Eliana Nicolini, a UNDP cash-for-work coordinator in Haiti who first helped bring the plan to Port-au-Prince a couple years ago. "This is different - I really believe it has longer-lasting development effects because it's the local community, not the foreign community, that's executing...
...Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. He is president of the Harvard College Latino Men’s Collective. Miguel Garcia ’12 lives in Greenough Hall. He is an intern for the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Eliana C. Murillo ’10 is a sociology concentrator in Winthrop House. She is president of Latinas Unidas de Harvard...
...know, the taco man. How do you adjust to not having one of those around?” Eliana C. Murillo ’10 asks with a slight accent, discussing the differences between Harvard and home. She sits beneath the austere façade of Winthrop House as students, clad in pastel Bermuda shorts, mingle and sip pink lemonade, enjoying one of the first days of spring...
...balmy day in July, Eliana Tranchesi stopped by the Balenciaga showroom in Paris to scrutinize the new season's handbags. With her honeyed mane, steely mien and enduring proclivity for body-skimming Dolce & Gabbana, Tranchesi is a familiar figure among the habitues of Europe's chicest ateliers. The Brazilian bombshell is the president and owner of Daslu, Latin America's most exclusive department store...
...psychology major at UCSD, serves as tutor, floating from desk to desk to make sure no one falls behind. And if plotting axis points begins to get dry, the class can turn into a 3-D graphics seminar, with the students using the UCSD supercomputers to create complex designs. Eliana Rucobo, 14, a precocious child of Mexican immigrants, says, "When I first came here, I had doubts about myself. Now I have gained confidence to go after what I want"--which is to become an architect...