South Africa
Focus: Development & Poverty Reduction
Location: Grahamstown, Cape Town
Languages: English, Xhosa, Afrikaans
Dates: June 24 - July 21, 2008
Housing: Single & shared residences
Costs & Credits:
Check our application section for details.
What does it take to forge social change in South Africa? How do you confront issues as overwhelming as apartheid and its aftermath, poverty, crime, unemployment, clean water, racism, environmental degradation and AIDS, to name just a few? Which tough choices do you make when investing for the future? Highways or houses? Stadiums or sanitation? Grandchildren or grandmas?
Global business people, the staff of nongovernmental organizations, diplomats, aid officials, and employees of international organizations deal with these issues on a daily basis. These are also the very real situations that confront South Africans every day, including South Africans your age. But where will you get the knowledge, skills and attitudes to take on these issues?
How can you join with South Africans your own age to participate in the process of social change and bring your ideas and skills to the table? By joining Global PACT, you'll discover the fundamentals of social-change start-up and management by beginning a new project in South Africa through a unique partnership with Global PACT and Rhodes University.
A Typical Day
During a typical day, you will receive six hours of Global PACT classroom instruction -- three in the morning and three in the afternoon. You will listen to lectures, interact with instructors as a class, and work one-to-one with a small, multi-national group and Global PACT trainers. You and your team members will make frequent class presentations to the large group. On some days you will travel around the city conducting research for your project, and on the final day your group will conduct a live press conference to introduce your project to the South African press. After class, you will be free to hang out with your classmates, although some project work will require you to work with your team after classroom hours are over.
