Hi Everyone !
So, my name is Maria and I am an exchange student at UT for one year. I lived all my life in France but my parents are German and Romanian.
I am truly looking forward to this class and to follow one of the projects that are proposed to us (I can't decide which one I will pick!). I have never done such a project before, though local development interests me a lot and that I have always wanted to do something like that ! I have been a human rights activist for the last few years and one of the important things I learned was that poverty and social disadvantages in general are not a fact per se, they are not something that has to exist in order for the society and the economy to work. They are not a necessity and they enter into the framework of human rights violations.
I am very pleased to being given the chance to work on a concrete situation and I hope that I will learn a lot and that I will acquire some knowledge that I could implement on other projects when I get back home.
See you all on monday!
Maria
