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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship Award: A Living Tribute to Alice Rowan Swanson, SIT Study Abroad ’06 Alumna

World Learning/SIT is pleased to announce the creation of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship Fund. This $100,000 fellowship fund established by the family of SIT Study Abroad Nicaragua ’06 alumna Alice Rowan Swanson, is a living tribute to Alice’s life, her passion for bridging cultures and helping others and the role that SIT Study Abroad [...]

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World Learning Launches an HIV Prevention Project in Ethiopia

July 23, 2009 (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): World Learning Ethiopia announced the launch of a three-year project entitled “HIV Prevention in Large Scale Construction Sites in Ethiopia,” made possible by a $4.75 million grant from the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS (PEPFAR) through United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The project aims to reach more [...]

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SIT Study Abroad Alum’s Film Documents a Vanishing Community

By Jonas Jacobs, SIT Study Abroad Bolivia: Lens on Latin America Alum    My documentary film, NO WAY TO SAY GOODBYE, is about the disappearing Jewish community in Bolivia.  In 1939, at the dawn of the Holocaust, Bolivia was one of only three countries in the world (Colombia and China were the other two) to [...]

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