"The life of one child is worth more than all the wealth in the world." -- Che Guevara
For 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.
After the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, over a billion dollars in aid was promised to the struggling island. The world stepped up, empathized and donated. Yet much of the funds pledged to post-quake relief for has not been received for redevelopment and very little has been done to rebuild.
Something remarkable is happening in Venezuela. The lives of millions of Venezuelans are improving as historic wrongs are being righted. The world's fifth-largest oil producer, Venezuela has long been a country of contrasts: despite its great wealth, 80% of Venezuelans live in poverty.
The centerpiece of the annual August tour is South African Women’s Day, August 9. We celebrate the post-apartheid inclusion of women in government, in the workforce and as leaders in communities.
Guest EcoArtist, Mekisha Marshall (a Systems Engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), will expand your mind as you traverse among artists and wildlife in South Africa. Meet with engineers, explore the arts, learn from conservation leaders and all the while, exchanging ideas on human computing as it pertains to all fields. Specifically, Mekisha will lead you to discover how the brain is like a computer system and what this means for future human interactions, with other humans and computers.
In Brazil, former urban guerrilla and political prisoner Dilma Rousseff was elected the country’s first female president in October. Her election signals the changing role of women (and grassroots activism) in the largest and fastest-growing country in South America.
After the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, over a billion dollars in aid was promised to the struggling island. The world stepped up, empathized and donated. Yet much of the funds pledged to post-quake relief for has not been received for redevelopment and very little has been done to rebuild.
Something remarkable is happening in Venezuela. The lives of millions of Venezuelans are improving as historic wrongs are being righted. The world's fifth-largest oil producer, Venezuela has long been a country of contrasts: despite its great wealth, 80% of Venezuelans live in poverty.
The centerpiece of the annual August tour is South African Women’s Day, August 9. We celebrate the post-apartheid inclusion of women in government, in the workforce and as leaders in communities.
