Master of Arts in International Care and Community Development
John Vicory talks about
the ICCD program:
Why Northwest?
When I moved to Seattle I just started looking around for graduate programs and looked at the ICCD program and realized that it was basically everything that I was looking for in a graduate degree.
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Why ICCD?
I was looking for a program, centered around social justice and one that would go more in depth than just a missions experience.
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Experience at Northwest
I really liked the structure of the program, I mean I was able to–I got married and started a family during the course of the program and was able to work full time too, so that was nice.
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Practicum
For my practicum I went back to Africa, where I got started with the whole social justice, humanitarian work. I went back to a couple of the orphan care centers that I had been in communication with and just talked with them about what they wanted to do, and how they wanted to grow.
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Thesis
I really focused my thesis on orphan care and really did a lot of research on the difference between what we think is institutional and family based care and the practicalities of each of those.
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After Graduation
My thesis project was writing a business plan and so in the future I would like to turn that business plan into a non-profit called Not Alone International.
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Advice
It will definitely open your eyes to a lot of the theory and structure behind humanitarian work. But it’s really eye opening and really provides a really solid base for humanitarian work or social justice work.
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