Let’s all welcome Natalie Mulford, our very own International News Columnist! This is her sixth year with TPS and second writing for clay. Although she’s American, Natalie has spent most of her sixteen years overseas with her parents, three younger sisters, and their giant South African Mastiff named Obi. For […]
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Meet Sarah Weindelmayer: Film Columnist
Meet Sarah Weindelmayer, clay’s new Film Columnist! Sarah has lived in Thailand for a total of five years. She was born in America, and she and her family of six moved to Thailand about seven years ago as Christian volunteers. Sarah is sixteen years old, and this is her sixth […]
Horrific Effects of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi and Mozambique
Warning: This is a hard topic, and some images may be triggering On March 11, Cyclone Freddy slammed into Southern Africa for the second time this year. Harsh winds and drenching rains pummeled Mozambique and then moved inland to Malawi, inducing widespread flooding and landslides. The effects were devastating. On […]
A New Home for South African Penguins
A project has been launched in South Africa to create a home for African shore penguins, (yay!) whose numbers have declined in recent years ????. African penguins are found in southwest Africa ????, inhabiting twenty-four islands from the central coast of Namibia to Algoa Bay on the east coast of […]
Protests in Peru after the President’s Impeachment
In early December the former president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, attempted an illegal self-coup but failed when his ministers and the military stopped backing him. While he was president, he tried to take power for himself, and this is why people have called it a ‘self-coup.’ This failed as he […]