Youth Venture

juin 22, 2009 - 8:01pm — clewis

CBCL Peru 2009

Buzzwords like sustainability, globalization and social change have long since become standard fare in conversations about changing the world. This summer, a group of passionate, curious students from three very different communities will team up to explore how exactly youth can create changed communities, both in theory and in practice.

For five weeks, three Phillips Academy Andover students, three students from Lawrence, Mass. and three high school students from San Bartolo, a small economically disadvantaged beach town in Peru, will participate in the 2009 Crossing Borders, Changing Lives (CBCL) Peru program.

Over the course of the program the group will learn about the San Bartolo community and its greatest needs and greatest assets, create a sustainable community improvement project in response to those needs and assets to put into action this summer, meet with representatives of government, social enterprise, nonprofits and the private sector in order to learn about the different perspectives on social change in Peru and learn about the Incan approach to community development while visiting Maccu Picchu.

To keep track of our travels and adventures, we will be posting daily updates on their online blog, http://crossingborderschanginglives.blogspot.com/. More information for the program can also be found at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/280481/60853137?m=c4bb4f3c.