Join Global Exchange on this in-depth tour that will focus on:
We will visit with women's groups, youth groups, government officials, and activists fighting the AIDS pandemic. Most importantly, we will learn how poverty and the unequal nature of apartheid, fueled by the colonial era and globalization, have contributed to the problems Southern Africa faces today. The idea is to come away from this experience with a keen sense of the issues affecting South Africa today, the options for development and the people at grassroots level who are creating change.
Program Highlights:
- Travel to Johannesburg and Cape Town, visiting townships and the peri-urban areas which surround them
- Learn the people's perspectives on race relations, current politics, and social change in the New South Africa
- Learn about sustainable development and meet with activists calling to end the World Bank debt
- Understand the history of forced removals and the challenges of land reform, restitution and tenure with the Surplus People Project and the Landless People's Movement
- Engage with the HIV/AIDS pandemic through the eyes of community care givers and activists in Treatment Action Campaign
- Meet activists from the Itsoseng Women's Project working to improve services in the informal settlement of Orange Farm
- Visit paralegal workers at the Advice Office in Elsie's River
- Visit important sites of resistance during apartheid and places of continued inspiration for South Africa's new democracy such as Robben Island, Hector Peterson Memorial, Constitution Hill and the District Six Museum.
- Take in the natural beauty of the country at Cape Point and Table Mountain and animals in the wild at the Pilanesburg Game Park
Cost: $2950
Price Includes:
- Double room accommodations (single supplement is $400)
- All internal transportation (including airfare within South Africa)
- 2 meals per day
- Trip leaders
- Guides
- All program activities
- All entrance fees
- Preparatory reading materials
- Personal meetings to suit your particular interest (as available)
- Global Exchange membership
- International airfare is not included. When booking your flight to South Africa: book your flight so that it arrives in Johannesburg and departs from Cape Town!!
How to Register:
We must receive your application and a non-refundable deposit of $200 two months before departure. A late fee of $50 will be applied to late applications. Payments by MasterCard or Visa are welcome.In some cases, a limited number of partial scholarships are available for low-income applicants.
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