Are you ready to make a difference?
You've read about poverty and development in textbooks.
You've seen pictures of war and hunger on the news.
Confused by the complexity of the issues?
Wondering how you can make a difference?
To understand poverty, you first must own it. Transformational development starts with you.
GO with Go-Ed to East Africa, a study abroad program for US University students involving living in intentional community, a supervised field practicum, guided spiritual formation and a rigorous and relevant academic curriculum.
COURSES:
+Course #1 - INCL 340: African Traditional Religion
+Course #2 - ENG 206: Post Colonial African Literature
+Course #3 - INCL 345: Issues of Peacebuilding
+Course #4 - SOC 381: Social Context for Development
PRACTICUM – WHAT THEY’VE DONE:
+Rwanda: Photojournalism
+Ethiopia: Teaching English as a Second Language
+Uganda: Child Development
+Rwanda: Small Business Development
+Uganda: Peace and Conflict Resolution
“The classes in the Go ED. program were great. We learned about the history of East African culture and religion. Visited waterfalls and tombs. Read the writings of great African authors. We studied development in a developing country. We saw our classroom lectures play out in the community around us. We learned history from history makers. We learned culture from the people within it. We learned literature from a great writer who shared with us her inspiring poems. And we learned forgiveness and reconciliation from shop keepers, taxi drivers, teachers, and most of all, our friends.
The Go ED. program allows students to wrestle with issues of poverty. Our weekly group devotions were based on this subject and it was often the topic of late night talks in which we let out the emotions of our day and confided in one another, looking for companionship in the struggle to understand. For me it had to be personal. I didn’t understand poverty until it fell into my own life in the form of a close friend. Through this friendship, poverty was no longer an issue to study and understand but a person, a friend whose pains became my own.
It is easy to ignore something we don’t care about, or don’t feel, or understand. But we can’t ignore the pains and emotions of those who are in our inner circle. The people whom we love and trust the most. When we discussed poverty as an issue it has no face, it’s not human. One of the lessons I learned through this experience is to understand people as human, to understand humanity. To find things that connect people so that we become real to one another, so that we can see the humanity in one another. That people are not just an issue like poverty, but that they are human.”
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Charith Norvelle, Go-Ed class of 2007
+ “If you are willing the Go-ED program will change your life and you'll never regret going.”
– David, Spring 2007
+ “I absolutely loved my time in East Africa with the Go-ED program! It changed my life.”
– Bree, Spring 2007
+ “I expected to make a difference, make an impact and work to solve poverty. But quite the opposite happened. Go Ed. made a difference in me and impacted me.”
– Kevin, Spring 2007
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