Montgomery College-Germantown to Host National Peacebuilding Seminar on Teaching About Global Conflict, Oct. 12-15
What happens when a 20-year-old college student studies abroad and experiences first-hand the post-effects of war? Sometimes nothing more than memories and a few lessons learned, but in Jennifer Haydel's case, a year in Berlin, Germany set off a lifelong passion that would, in many ways, shape her career. While in Berlin, she worked with Bosnian refugees at the German Red Cross, and remembers clearly the five children from her apartment complex who were severely injured when they uncovered an unexploded grenade from World War II. "Working with people who were suffering a current war, and