Documentary filmmaker Jay Shapiro first traveled to Africa in 1999 with the Experiment in International Living. He is currently creating a film about the Ugandan little league baseball team. I didn’t know where I wanted to go. I just knew I wanted to do something different. I was 15. I didn’t know much about the world [...]
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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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Disabilities Project Earns Alum Royal Honor
A World Learning alumnus is among 10 young Arab leaders to win Jordan’s King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation and Achievement. Ahmad Aldahoud received $50,000 to continue his Loyalty Project, which expands social and economic opportunities for people with disabilities. Based in the northwestern Jordanian city of Al-Ramtha, the project mobilizes businesses and community [...]
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. [...]
World AIDS Day, December 1st
Today marks World AIDS Day and World Learning students, staff, and alumni are researching the topic, leading awareness campaigns, and designing HIV/AIDS education programs around the globe. Lillie Fleshler, like many SIT Study Abroad students, made HIV/AIDS the topic of her independent study project in Vietnam earlier this year. After discovering that stigma was a [...]
From the Field: Promoting childhood literacy in Bolivia
Laura Sprinkle is an alumna of SIT Study Abroad’s Bolivia program, and a current Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow. I returned to Bolivia in July of this year to work with Kids’ Books Bolivia, an organization founded by SIT Study Abroad Bolivia director Heidi-Baer Postigo. Kids’ Books Bolivia is a program by which SIT Study Abroad [...]
Celebrating International Education Week: Study in the United States inspires new career
November 14-18 marks international education week in the United States. To celebrate, we are featuring stories, testimonies and program updates from throughout the World Learning family on our blog all week. Our second post features a story about Eshraq Alkhabbaz, a student of international education at SIT Graduate Institute. SIT Graduate Institute student Eshraq Alkhabbaz [...]
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