Kenya: Field Studies and Collaborative International Service-Learning!
INTL 437H (15 credits)
Winter Quarter 2013
- Spend six weeks in rural Kenya learning about the local
community, culture, history, politics and more
- Engage in meaningful service-learning projects
- Apply your learning to your own major through the
development of an individualized study or research project
Service-learning projects will develop through collaboration with local community partners and may involve developing and sustaining income generating projects, high-school level service-learning projects, and energy, health and water projects.
Study at two project sites:
- Ombogo Girls’ Academy, Homa Bay - the Academy is a secondary boarding school for girls located in Nyanza Province along Lake Victoria, one of the poorest districts in Kenya and with the highest rates of HIV infection. It is an area inhabited predominantly by the Luo tribe, one of Kenya’s largest tribes.
- Merrueshi - a Maasai village in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The Maasai are
a semi-nomadic tribe steeped in long held traditions. The village is addressing
the pressures of modernization through community development projects that
aim to minimize permanent migration of young men and women from the
community.