Neil Davis Friluftsliv PBL
We drove into the mountains looking for snow to build a snow cave. Our little international band of students, headed by a South African (who really can ski) scanned the landscape excitedly. The five of [...]
UWC International statement
UWC International statement about US Executive Order The following is the announcement from the UWC International Office about the US Executive Order. A change.org petition, drafted by many alums from across the UWC movement, can [...]
Model United Nations 2017
Our Model United Nations has, since the early years of the College, been a significant event and an integral part of the UWC experience. On January 26th the event commenced with Arne Øi from the [...]
Mostak Rahman (’99 – ’01)
Losing my father whilst still a baby, living in poverty with a mentally ill teenage mother, life threw a curve at me at an early age. My grandmother could not afford two daily proper nutritious [...]
Book Book Tuk Tuk – Cambodia
The employees at Red Cross Haugland Rehabilitation Centre decided that this year their Christmas presents from their workplace - with a total sum of 30,000 kroner - would go to the project 'Book Book Tuk [...]
Jacob Yath Deng (’15 – ’17)
“The greatest thing any person could do is to help another person. So if you can aid the people around you - that’s enough; there is nothing greater than that.” Jacob lives by these values and [...]
The Winter Programme
One of our students has written this account of the College's Winter Programme. The experience I had of the Winter Programme was one of the best experiences in RCN. It is run for ‘travel support’ [...]
2016 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
5 students - Juan Pablo (Colombia), Pam (Colombia / Venezuela), Yael (Israel), Shweta (India) and Helen (Germany) - and one member of staff (Hilde from Norway) from UWC Red Cross Nordic attended the 2016 Nobel [...]
RCN Board Meeting in Oslo
The Board members of UWC RCN met in Oslo on Friday 2nd December for its quarterly meeting at the offices of our partners, the Norwegian Red Cross. On the evening before, Marianne Andresen kindly hosted [...]
Vibeke L’Orsa Mortensen (1995 – 2016)
We would like to profile Vibeke in the last week of this term in our ‘People of RCN’ section of the UWC Red Cross Nordic website as this provides us with the opportunity to thank [...]