Cuba Program Delegations 2008- 2009
	Architecture & Urban Planning
		December 27, 2008 -January 5, 2009	$2450
		December 27, 2009 -January 5, 2010	$2550
	Law,Labor and Health Rights in Cuba. Experience May Day in Havana!
		April 25 - May 4, 2009	$2550
	Educators Delegation
		June 15 - 24, 2008	$2450
		December 27, 2008 - January 5, 2009	$2450
		April 3 - 13, 2009	$2550
		June 20 - 30, 2009	$2550
		December 27, 2009 - January 5, 2010	$2550
	Health Care & Alternative Healing in Cuba
		June 22, 2008 - July 1, 2008	$2450
		March 1 - 10, 2009	$2550
		June 20 - 30, 2009	$2550
		October 3 - 12, 2009	$2550
	Agricultural Trends, Sustainability & Development
		February 3, 2009 - February 12, 2009	$2450
		October 19, 2008 - October 28, 2008	$2450
	International Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Conference (co-sponsored by Food First)
		May12 - 21, 2008	$2080
	North American Association For Environmental Education "Cuban Environment and Sustainability"
		November 29 - December 8, 2008	$2350
	Art, Architecture and Cuban Culture
		March 13-21, Santiago Extension 21-25, 2008	$1900.00 from Cancun, extension $800.00

Global Exchange works to facilitate licensed travel to Cuba according to current US policy restricting travel to the island. Participants need to be able to qualify under a general license. We will assist you in this process.

We hope to receive applications and a non-refundable deposit of $200 two months before departure. Payments by Mastercard or Visa are welcome.

This trip will be as diverse as possible in terms of race, age and life experiences. We strongly urge people of color to apply. In some cases, a limited number of partial scholarships are available for low-income applicants.

Contact Leslie Balog (leslie@globalexchange.org), or call toll-free 1-800-497-1994 ext. 242.

Global Exchange supports the freedom to travel to Cuba, along with the freedom of information. We believe one of the most important tools in ending the embargo and travel ban against Cuba is by making complete and accurate information available to the U.S. public. We are currently recruiting consultants to support our research and information gathering efforts in Cuba. You can be a part of supporting our efforts to make this much-needed information available to professionals, researchers, students and the general U.S. public.

HEALTH & ALTERNATIVE HEALING: June 22 - July 1, 2008

Cuba's acclaimed public health system has been internationally recognized for its ability to offer full medical services free-of-charge to the population. At the same time, tens of thousands Cuban physicians, nurses and therapists are treating low- income patients around the world, many of whom have never before been seen by a doctor.

After devastating hurricanes hit Central America, Cuban medical volunteers were airlifted into the most inaccessible, inhospitable areas where they saved tens of thousands of lives and stemmed deadly epidemics.

Just days after a massive earthquake struck Pakistan causing unprecedented destruction and killing tens of thousands of people, Cuban medical professionals were erecting tent hospitals high in the Himalayas where they spent the bitterly cold winter sleeping in tents and caring for mountain residents.

Now, Cuba is participating in "Operation Miracle", a project restoring sight to tens of thousands of low income Latin Americans and Caribbean patients, free-of-charge.

Join a Global Exchange research delegation to Cuba with Global Exchange and meet Cuban doctors, nurses, technicians and administrations. Find out for yourself how this small, impoverished island-nation manages to provide its people with one of the region's best health care and alternative healing systems while sending medical professionals around the globe to provide health-care to those who could not otherwise afford it.

THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION: June 15 - 24, 2008

Cuba's unprecedented achievements in Education began in l961 with the world's biggest volunteer action: its literacy campaign. Braving counterrevolutionary bandits, in less than a year, Cuban youngsters and teachers taught 707, 212 Cubans, or more than 20 percent, to read and write. Armed with two lesson books and a lantern for teaching at night, children as young as 12 years-old, left their families in the cities to make treacherous journeys high into the Sierra Maestra and Escambray Mountains and other nearly inaccessible areas to teach everyone who wanted to learn, to read and write.

Since that time, the island's universal education system has expanded and improved, making Cuba's one of the world's most highly educated populations.

Visit Cuba with Global Exchange and find out about the island's innovative "University for All" television programs that offer courses in foreign languages, geography, meteorology, history, dance, art appreciation, physics, mathematics and much more. Learn how university education has come to every municipality, how all workers have a right to continue their studies, how unemployed youth are given the opportunity to train as social workers.

And, find out about how Cuba's innovative literacy method, "Yes, I can", is being successfully used to mount literacy campaigns in both the developed and developing worlds.

WITNESS A REAL GREEN REVOLUTION: May 12 - 21, 2008 (co-sponsored by Food First)

Global Exchange invites you to join us on a 10-day research delegation to Cuba to learn about how the island Cuba has become a leader in organic and urban agriculture.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the island nation of Cuba found itself cut off from the chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides on which its farms had long depended. To feed its people, the Cuban government undertook an unprecedented conversion to organic and local food production. Today, much of the country's fertilizer comes from some 175 vermicompost centers that produce more than 90,000 tons of compost annually. Thousands of urban gardens across the country help feed the island's population, and an estimated one-third of Havana's arable land is under cultivation. As other countries pursue conversions to more local and organic agricultural systems,many are looking toward Cuba as a model.

During the 10-day delegation you will get the chance to talk with Cubans you would otherwise never meet—agronomists, government officials, community leaders, and ordinary Havana residents who are growing their own food. This is a unique opportunity to see for yourself an internationally recognized example of how to grow closer connections to our food.