Trip to Uganda for Teachers!
Teaching Global Issues: July 11 - 24, 2009
You've been providing "hands-on" experiences to your students for years. Now it's time to have one yourself! Hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on. Your teaching will never be the same.
Do you teach about Global Issues? Have you dreamed of visiting Africa but wanted a more authentic experience than looking at it through the window of an air-conditioned bus? Do you want to connect, one-on-one, with people who are actively working to lift themselves out of poverty and ask them what their lives are like? Would you like to go on safari and then be able to talk to the locals about what the the park and wildlife conservation mean to them? Do you want to see what "Global Issues" look like in the lives of Ugandans?
- Spend two weeks with other teachers who are passionate about global issues
- Visit the BeadforLife village to see the life-changing benefits of home ownership
- Explore environmental issues and their impacts on people's lives
- Visit an AIDS clinic and find out what living with HIV means in Africa
- Visit schools and spend time with Ugandan teachers
- View wildlife on a 4-day safari in Murchison Falls Natio
nal Park - Take time to develop curriculum that you can use and share when you return
This will not be a "sugarcoated" experience. These issues are complex, and that's what this trip is all about. What if saving endangered wildlife means farmers can't feed their children? What if free AIDS medications don't help because they make people who can't afford food hungrier than they already are? Be ready to dive into the issues.
This trip will be co-led by Mark Jordahl, owner of Conservation Concepts, and Wendy Ewbank, 2004 World Affairs Council World Educator Award recipient and current faculty at Seattle Girls' School. For more about Wendy and Mark, click
here.
Because of our commitment to the environment, the trip cost includes a carbon offset for your air travel.
Follow the links to the left to get more information about this trip. To request
enrollment forms or if you have more questions
, click
here. We hope you'll join us!!
This is not a luxury trip, so be prepared to dive into the real Uganda! We will have modest but comfortable accommodations, eat local food and have opportunities to see the diverse lifestyles of the Ugandan people. Evenings will be a time to debrief about our experience, share stories, and reflect. Come prepared for a group experience—including living, eating and traveling with the other trip members. Flexibility is a must as we interact with the Ugandan culture and embrace a slower pace, new languages and the unexpected joys of traveling in another country.
Conservation Concepts, LLC10924 NE Old Creosote Hill Rd., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Phone: 011 256 775 295 126 Fax: 206-629-9523
mark@conservationconcepts.net