World Learning reflects on a year of progress and milestones with its 2010 Year in Review photo album. The album highlights 25 of the most memorable moments of 2010, including the announcement of a historic partnership with Smithsonian Institution and meeting with First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House. Check out the album below: [...]
Written by President Adam Weinberg One of the things I love about being president of World Learning is the opportunity to hear your stories every day. I hear them on the phone and I hear them when I’m out on the road meeting with participants and parents. These stories are remarkably consistent. They’re about talented [...]
As a student on the SIT Study Abroad Ghana: Social Transformation and Cultural Expression program, Peter Glidden was placed with a homestay family in Beposo village. Though Peter’s time in Beposo was short, he made some amazing friendships, and the leaders of the community asked Peter to be Beposo’s Chief of Development. Before accepting, Peter consulted with SIT’s program coordinator Kwame [...]
Experiment France group leader Breeze Willis and his group were determined “to get to know France as the French know it… and have fun doing it.” The group’s adventurous spirit led them to hidden alleys, lesser-known neighborhoods, and corner cafes that foreigners rarely visit. In a small community outside of Paris, the Experimenters explored the medieval architecture and rich [...]
World Learning joins the global community in marking Human Rights Day on December 10, the day in 1948 that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The basic values enshrined in this groundbreaking document—including human dignity, liberty, equality and brotherhood—serve as important touchstones for all of World Learning’s programs. A [...]
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and finance major, Michael Roscitt studied abroad on SIT’s Uganda: Development Studies program based in Kampala. Mike describes how this experience helped him obtain a position with the global nonprofit organization, Innovations for Poverty Action. Why did you decide to spend a semester with SIT Study [...]
Written by SIT Study Abroad Senegal alum Clint Smith I studied abroad with the SIT Study Abroad Senegal: National Identity and the Arts program during the spring of 2009. My time in the small West African country profoundly impacted my life and gave me a different perspective on how I see both myself, and the world [...]
December 1st is World AIDS Day. World Learning recognized the damaging impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic early. In the mid-1980s, we helped establish the first US-funded program to strengthen nongovernmental organizations working to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Today, we work with dozens of organizations and donor agencies worldwide on initiatives that both [...]
In advance of World AIDS Day December 1, a dozen World Learning employees and family members recently turned out for the 24th annual AIDS Walk Washington. They joined nearly 10,000 other participants who raised close to $760,000 to date for the HIV/AIDS programs of Whitman-Walker Clinic. The clinic is a non-profit, community-based provider of health [...]
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