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The Experiment in Focus: La Dolce Vita

The Experiment has some sweet programs, but the gelato program in Italy may be the sweetest of them all. Students on La Dolce Vita: Gelato, Food and Culture  not only sample gelato from Italy’s best gelaterias, they also learn how to make their own gelato from expert chefs. Parents need not worry about their sons and daughters getting a full course [...]

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A Living Legacy

Sometimes, hope for the future grows out of a tragic event in the past. Such was the death of Alice Rowan Swanson, killed in 2008 while riding her bicycle in Washington, DC. It led to the 2009 establishment of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship. “The first thing I thought of was to establish an SIT [...]

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Clinton Invites Youth to Build Brazilian-US “Superhighway”

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Brazilian Youth Ambassadors Program by hosting 45 Brazilian high school students at the US State Department today. Secretary Clinton said the US greatly values its relationship with Brazil, and the youth ambassadors can play a key role in creating a cross-cultural “superhighway” [...]

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A “Mother” to Her Students

After thirty-eight years as a teacher, and only two years away from retirement, Almaz W/Senbet remains as dedicated as ever to her students. A music teacher at Misrak Ber No-1 primary school in Addis Ababa, W/Senbet has also taken it upon herself to provide food and care to students in need. Every day she brings [...]

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What’s New in 2012

It’s a new year and we’re excited to announce some of the upcoming programs we’ll be launching in 2012. With initiatives in youth leadership development, health education, and international capacity development, we’ve got a busy year ahead. Here are some of the latest additions to World Learning’s efforts around the world. World Learning will host [...]

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SCOPSO Helps Students Shine

Tekalegn Haile dreamed of playing soccer with the other students at school. However, the 10 year old didn’t feel accepted by his peers because his family could not afford school uniforms, workbooks, and other classroom supplies. “I rarely had the opportunity to play football [soccer] with the others,” Tekalegn said. “I could only touch the [...]

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Out of the Streets and into the Classroom

Christine Elizabeth Horansky is an advocate for global education and a 2002 alumna of SIT’s Study Abroad program in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She was recently named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. She earned her bachelors degree in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College and her masters degree in International Education Policy from the [...]

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Drum On!

Ksenija Komljenovic is part of the Stankovic Percussion Ensemble (SPE),  the only drumline in all of Serbia. When she spent  the 2010-2011 school year in the United States at Illinois State University (ISU) through the FORECAST Exchange program, she was excited to learn more about American drumlines, which had been such an inspiration to her [...]

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Youth Programs Director Simon Norton Defines Leadership

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2011 Year in Review

By Adam Weinberg, World Learning President and CEO More than half of the world’s population is under the age of 30. In 2011, World Learning worked with this rising generation in more than 140 countries, helping them understand the world and develop the skills and motivation to address the issues that will shape the future. [...]

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