archives: First Person Narratives

Why a memory of a woman in Togo compels Linda Golden to wake up early in Louisville, Kentucky each Saturday.   More »

"Poverty is real and it isn’t okay."  More »

Alyssa Martino reflects on the therapeutic effects of teaching English to refugees living in the United States.  More »

A nurse volunteering in Haiti shares her unedited thoughts about her experiences on the ground.   More »

Child sexual abuse is a worldwide problem.   More »

There are lessons we have to learn over and over again before we get them right.   More »

Day 1: So far, so good. Day 2: Well, we'll get to that tomorrow....  More »

Joyce Hanson joins the Human Countdown to send up a wake-up call to the world about climate change.   More »

A Matador contributor takes a toxic tour of the Amazon.  More »

Photographers Michelle Ferng and Danny Thiemann take you inside Brazil's prisons.   More »

Dominic DeGrazier visits Casa de Paz Orphanage in Ensenada, Mexico.   More »

Canadian journalist Sophie Dube-Chavanel sends in a first person dispatch from the Burmese-Thai border.   More »

"Many people ask me, 'Why India?'.... Quite simply, because these twenty-five million children exist."  More »

Stephanie Downs sends a first person dispatch from her animal rights voluntourism experience in Greece.   More »

Stephanie Downs looks ahead as she prepares for a voluntourism trip to Greece.   More »

Matador member Ryan Van Lenning happened to be on the front line of the Chevron protest & shares this first person dispatch.   More »

A letter from a resident of the Ecuadorean Amazon who has experienced Chevron's environmental hazards firsthand.   More »

Matador contributor Dominic DeGrazier expects to find a dirty, sad orphange. Instead, he finds a home-like atmosphere, full of color and life.   More »

Going inside Colombia's Escuela Taller.   More »

I've spent half of my life in the country & half in the city. Guess which place is more sustainable?  More »

Matador member Scott Brills prepares to drive 10,000 miles for charity.   More »