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Indeed, automobiles have become Turkey's single most important industry, overtaking the traditional No. 1, textiles. Along with Renault, three other foreign giants - Fiat, Honda and Toyota - all have significant production facilities in the country. About 80% of output is exported, mainly to Europe, which until recently meant booming business...
And so began the Ceramics Micro-Enterprise Project, which proposes to help the people of La Prusia produce traditional clay products in an effort to support the local economy. The charity calls on Harvard students to help in all aspects of the program: from community development to field work, testing...
While the project will initially help the community of La Prusia learn how to make ceramics, an art which was once a part of traditional Nicaraguan culture, the program hopes to eventually extend beyond the potter’s wheel, teaching these families how to market their business in order...
And beneath these immediate, logistical problems lie others. One of the project’s ultimate goals is to have the ceramics program incorporate itself into La Prusia’s society—a society which no longer possesses the tools to produce their traditional crafts.
On the ground in Bala Beluk, the trainers see a more pressing reason to have embedded mentors: preventing the newly trained police from backsliding into old practices, and protecting them from corrupt officials who are threatened by clean cops. They compare Bala Beluk to 1970s New York City, with its...