Global Summer Symposium

ON THIS VIRTUAL PROGRAM YOU WILL:

• Travel “virtually” to Ghana and South Africa to collaborate with African leaders
• Learn how two communities are confronting critical issues around children’s rights on a local scale
• Meet like-minded peers with a shared interest in children and education
• Explore UN Sustainable Development Goal #1 — No Poverty
• Dive into UN Sustainable Development Goal #4 — Quality Education
• Earn a certificate of achievement at the end of your two-week experience

During this Global Summer Symposium on Children & Education, you will explore children’s issues as they relate to complex monstrosities such as modern child slavery, as well as how poverty and access to education affect solutions to these problems.

Children are among the most vulnerable citizens around the world, and we need holistic solutions that support the well-being of our communities as well as ultimately, our children and our future.

Students on this program will travel “virtually” to South Africa and Ghana to make the case for educating ourselves on challenges facing children around the world, and how education is the most powerful tool there is to change the world.

Throughout this two-week online program, dive into how access to safe living conditions and education should be a basic human right for all children.

In South Africa, hear from the SAVE Foundation, a registered non-profit that works to enrich, educate and empower and protect children in impoverished communities.

Hear how they are working to end the vicious cycle of poverty that young people face in their community.

In Ghana, hear from an organization dedicated to supporting victims of child slavery.

Witness how they are working to create future paths for the most vulnerable members of the next generation.

During this program, students will explore United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #1 – No Poverty and United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #4 – Quality Education.