International Resource Centre

TO FRIENDS, TEACHERS, EXPERTS AND PARENTS ABOUT ISSUES SUCH AS LOSS, IDENTITY AND DRUG-TAKING

Expat Teens Talk - Peers, Parents and Professionals offer support, advice and solutions in response to Expat Life challenges as shared by Expat Teens
by Dr. Lisa Pittman and Diana Smit

“Congratulations for developing a resource that gives internationally mobile teens hope and understanding about their world.”
Ian Moody, Head of Counselling, United World College of South EastAsia, Singapore
Being a teenager is tough. Being a teenager growing up in another country, another culture, maybe attending your tenth school and with no lifetime friends or nearby relatives to turn to can be tougher still.
 This is why Dr. Lisa Pittman (a psychologist from the USA) and Diana Smit (an expatriate mother and educational therapist from Canada), two expatriates based in Singapore, were inspired to write this book.

As early as 1846, the Vlisco company, based in Helmond, served the West African market with Dutch Wax textiles. From 29 January through 6 May, 2012, the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem will present Six Yards Guaranteed Dutch Design, an exhibition about how Vlisco’s Dutch textiles became a part of various West African cultures and found their way into international fashion, the visual arts, and photography. The exhibition Six Yards is a tribute to Vlisco textiles: over a hundred years old, born in Indonesia, designed in the Netherlands, loved in Africa, and desired in the West.