Nancy Longatan

Nancy Longatan is a specialist in adult education, especially for cross-cultural communication and surviving culture shock. She has worked in Nepal, where she managed an integrated rural development project, including irrigation supply, drinking water and sanitation, natural resources management and adult literacy education. Later, she worked in a training center in Japan, providing training in rural leadership and community organizing to participants from all over Asia and Africa. At present, she lives and works in rural Philippines, supporting church workers and other rural development activists. She has articles published in print publications in Barbados, Nepal, Japan, the UK, the Philippines and the USA, as well as on the web. She also teaches an online class in cross-cultural communication and culture shock.