WorldStrides is excited to present to you an exclusive opportunity made available at no-charge to GEBG schools to support their global education programs while travel itself may be on hold for the next several months.
Our virtual “WorldStrides World Connections” provide the opportunity for schools or individual classes to interact with communities on the ground at Camps International Field Study Centers in Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia. In each instance, the live video interactions with the volunteers and local people on the ground are focused on real-world issues that are currently being tackled at the following locations:
- Global Location: Borneo, South East Asia (The villages of Tiangol and Narawang in the Kinabatangan region)
Real-World Issue – Option 1: Waste Management
Real-Time Solution: How severe is the problem with plastics and what can be done to improve the situation?
Real-World Issue – Option 2: Education & Training
Real-Time Solution: How can education be improved at different stages of life to pull people out of poverty?
- Global Location: Cambodia, South East Asia (The villages of Beng Pae and Beng Mealea)
Real-World Issue: Food & Water Security
Real-Time Solutions: How can we improve nutrition in rural locations when climate change is reducing crops and poverty limits buying food?
- Global Location: Costa Rica, Central America (The village of Terraba and the Osa Rainforest)
Real-World Issue: Wildlife Conservation
Real-Time Solutions: How can we encourage the preservation of natural lands for conserving invaluable wildlife habitats?
- Global Location: Ecuador, South America (The Kuri Kucho region of the Amazon Rainforest)
Real-World Issue: Environmental Protection
Real-Time Solutions: How do people live in the jungle while letting the jungle live?
- Global Location: Kenya, Africa (The village of Tsavo and Murungu)
Real-World Issue – Option 1: Sustainable Livelihoods.
Real-Time Solutions: How can women in rural communities generate income for themselves in a sustainable and long-term way?
Real-World Issue – Option 2: Animal Welfare
Real-Time Solutions: How can we improve animal welfare in rural communities to benefit both animals and the people who rely on them?
- Global Location: Peru, South America (The Moray and Maras Regions of the Amazon Rainforest)
Real-World Issue: Healthcare & Sanitation.
Real-Time Solutions: How does Peru’s divers landscape and ecosystem provide challenges for health and sanitation issues?
- Global Location: Tanzania, Africa (The villages of Mbokomu and Moshi in the Arusha region)
Real-World Issue: Education & Literacy.
Real-Time Solutions: How does education pull people out of poverty?
A Design Thinking Approach to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Each program is fully supported by an extensive range of materials, exercises and suggested activities, which are provided in advance to your faculty and students.
- Faculty Resources and Materials: Overview Presentation (“All You Need to Know on Your Chosen Destination and Real World Issue”), Sample Lesson Plan and Using Your Resources guidelines
- Student Group Materials and Activities: Where in the World?, Prioritizing the Sustainable Development Goals, What is the Impact of our Project?, Key Questions to Consider, Final Decision-Making!
- Personal Discovery Links and Recommended Reading: Personal research on key topics to prepare for the interactions with the Camps teams and encourage questions to learn more about the issue and recent successes and failures, as the local community has been tackling the issue concerned.
The focal point of the Real-World Issues – Real-Time Solutions program are the “World Connections” seminars with our overseas communities. These virtual experiences can range in nature from being a stand-alone one hour interaction for a class, to serving as the key daily component in a full week of structured student activities, if you wished to utilize the full range of materials that are available for each of the locations.
To learn more and to get started with your program, please complete the short form on this page and a member of the WorldStrides Educational Partnerships Team will be in contact with you.