Richelle Lubin's Blog

Home Stretch

I can scarcely believe that I’ve been in Sri Lanka for nine months but ‘tis true…I have just a few weeks left here on placement. It’s hard to believe just how attached I’ve become to this place, and these people and their culture over such a short space of time. The hardest thing about the [...]

Ayubowan

Ayubowan is hello in Sinhala, so “Hello” to all of you from Badulla, Sri Lanka. I’ve been in Sri Lanka now for two months and I think it’s time for an update. Badulla is a gorgeous little town in the South of Sri Lanka with an incredible charm that is continuously growing on me. I [...]

First blog entry

I am a fourth year student in the Specialist program in International Development Studies at the University of Toronto. I developed my interest in development quite early in life being born in the small island developing state of Barbados but having spent many summers in the resource rich Guyana. I was acutely aware that there [...]