From the Coordinator's Desk

Thanks for visiting our blog! We are really excited about this project and hope that it is a helpful and informative way to see what Master's International students are doing both at Tulane and abroad.

MIs and RPCVs posing with the trees we planted in Belle Chasse

This semester we are working hard to provide our students with meaningful service projects that will both provide useful skills for their futures as Peace Corps volunteers and give back to this unique New Orleans community. In February we went to Belle Chasse, LA to help rebuild Louisiana wetlands by planting native trees. This work is so incredibly important for our coast land not only because it allows us to restore coastal ecosystems, but this work also helps to mitigate hurricane damage -- an issue closely tied to New Orleans.

This March, MIs and RPCVs will be running the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen 5k benefiting the NO/AIDS initiative. This service project is appropriate for us on several levels: First, it provides us with an opportunity to emphasize and engage in healthy lifestyle choices. As Public Health students, we actively discuss preventable diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease on a daily basis. In participating in this 5k, we are able to encourage MI students to do more than just talk about living healthy. Secondly, as many of our MIs and RPCVs are currently (or formally) serving in Africa, running to raise awareness of  HIV/AIDS is a cause very near and dear to their hearts.

In April, we plan to team up with the Louisiana Peace Corps Association and Second Harvest to assemble produce baskets for people around the city. Providing families with the right foods to enrich their diets with essential nutrients is a cause we can all get behind!

For more information about Tulane's Master's International program, please visit our website.