How a Favela Kid Became Brazil's Top Badminton Player

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Kirk Bowman, associate chair and Jon Wilcox Term Professor of Soccer, Global Politics, and Society from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts was quoted in “How a Favela Kid Became Brazil's Top Badminton Player” for The Christian Science Monitor.

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“You go into the favelas and it’s chaos,” says Kirk Bowman, a political scientist at Georgia Tech and co-founder of Rise Up & Care, an American NGO that gives funding to established projects like Miratus in poor communities around the world. “But you walk into [Miratus] and it is order and purpose and happ[iness]. It’s a totally different world, and it’s no wonder that these kids, their grades improve, relationships in the family improve. They have role models and are achieving goals at a really young age.”

 

For the full article, read here.

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Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs

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2016 Rio Olympics, Kirk Bowman, Reimagine Rio
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  • Created By: Hayden Russell
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  • Created On: Aug 15, 2016 - 8:50am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:28pm