November 18, 2011 – November 27, 2011
This November, spend your vacation harvesting social justice! Participate in a transformative international travel experience. Global Exchange is sponsoring several highly motivated individuals to travel to Nicaragua this harvest season and work with a Fair Trade coffee cooperative (CECOCAFEN).
November 19, 2011 – November 29, 2011
We invite you to travel to Venezuela with Global Exchange to dig past the headlines and explore the changes occurring in Venezuela, Latin America and the hemisphere as a whole. On a Global Exchange tour to Venezuela you will meet with human rights activists, rural agricultural workers, labor unions, community activists, journalists, and government officials and opposition figures, and see for yourself the unprecedented social change that is occurring at this historic time in Venezuela and the region.
Step outside the boundaries of what you expect Venezuela to be like.
November 19, 2011 – November 27, 2011
"Cuba is involved in the most comprehensive conversion from chemical to organic agriculture that any nation has yet attempted."-- Peter Rosset, former Executive Director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy
This year we are fortunate to be able to offer our participants two possibilities: our annual introductory Sustainable Agriculture and Urban Gardens research tour or participation in the Third International Agroecology Conference in Havana province. Read on...
December 1, 2011 – December 10, 2011
A tour cosponsored by the Cuban American Alliance Education Fund (CAAEF) in recognition of International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3rd)
There are an estimated 650 million persons living with disabilities in the world today. If one includes the members of their families, there are approximately 2 billion persons who are directly affected by disability, representing almost a third of the world's population.
December 2, 2011 – December 12, 2011
As U.S. taxpayers, we play a big role in perpetuating the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. The United States gives over $3 billion annually to Israel in military aid, which is primarily used to continue its 40 year old Occupation of Palestinian Territories. The Bush Administration's alliance with the administration of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has resulted in unprecedented violence.
December 11, 2011 – December 21, 2011
Join Global Exchange in December for the year’s hottest jazz festival: Havana Jazz. Hear some of the legends of Latin Jazz, like multiple Grammy winner Chucho Valdez and veteran trumpeter and scat singer extraordinaire Bobby Carcasses and mix it up with talented young Cubans, musicians, and jazz aficionados from around the world. Programmed concerts are held in popular venues throughout Havana, but the real action takes place in little-known, after-hours clubs where “descargas” and jam sessions end as the sun comes up over the blue Caribbean sea.
December 20, 2011 – December 27, 2011
This is a Food Sovereignty Tour brought to you by Food First/the Institute for Food and Development Policy in partnership with Global Exchange Reality Tours.
December 27, 2011 – January 5, 2012
For over twenty years, Global Exchange has organized research tours to study Cuba's internationally lauded health care system, which has provided high quality, free universal health care to its 11,000,000 citizens for fifty plus years. Global Exchange invites you to participate in this exciting and meaningful holiday research delegation, and to experience a New Years Celebration in Havana!
January 12, 2012 – January 23, 2012
This is a Food Sovereignty Tour brought to you by Food First the Institute for Food and Development Policy in partnership with Global Exchange Reality Tours.This tour will take you on a road trip across the island of Cuba, from Havana in the West to Santiago de Cuba in the East, to learn firsthand about the country’s struggle to take control of its food system in the face of global market exclusion. We will meet with farmers, professors and government representatives to hear about Cuba from Cubans.
March 2, 2012 – March 11, 2012
"The life of one child is worth more than all the wealth in the world." -- Che Guevara
For over twenty years, Global Exchange has organized these tours to study Cuba's internationally lauded health care system, which has been providing high quality, free universal health care to its 11,000,000 citizens for fifty years.
