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Summer 2007 Host Site Descriptions

Botswana, Africa

Students contacted various social service agencies in the city and surrounding area to identify projects of special interest. Two team members worked at the Mokolodi Game Reserve, mostly within the cheetah enclosure. Others assisted with the Tlamelo Feeding Project and the township elementary school at Old Naledi. Housing was provided by the University of Botswana at the graduate flats.

Brazil

Students worked with project P.R.A.Y. in a small community in the Amazon. The team performed various tasks at the orphanage including childcare, facility maintenance. Some of the students helped in a medical clinic assisting with minor needs.

Puebla, Mexico

Students worked with the University of Puebla to identify projects of interest. Their dominant project throughout the summer was working in the Barrio de Santiago Community Center teaching English to children in the care facility. Additionally, the students took on projects unique to their own interests including work in a medical study and writing with the community newspaper.

Zoquitlan, Mexico

Students worked in the mountain village of Zoquitlan teaching English and involving themselves in the local community centre. Each student lived with a different host family in various areas of the community, arranged by the University of Puebla.

 
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Careem Gladney
Through Leadership Studies Careem was connected with his summer internship with Cargill Inc. The Leadership Studies program gave Careem the chance to work directly with many diverse individuals, which he feels reflects the world of the future. Click here to read more about this person.

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