Some women from my living-learning community floor and I are going to this four day program in Perryville, Arkansas this Thursday to Sunday the 9th to the 12th of April.
Here is the summary: Participants internalize complex issues surrounding hunger and poverty by experiencing the circumstances that many Heifer International's project partners face each day. Participants will leave with the awareness of their role as a global citizen and with ideas on how to create change.
The interactive educational simulation includes powerful and surprising situations that open the world beyond the participants own borders. Through experiencing conditions that arise daily for millions of people they become aware of the effects of poverty and hunger. They feel the discomfort and frustrations when faced with difficult life choices- how will I feed my family?
Throughout the program, they will work to provide for their "family" by tending gardens and livestock, working in the village community, buying supplies from the international market, and cooking cultural meals with appropriate technology. Each night the family will come together and sleep in representative housing, such as Mozambique, the Tibetan region of China, or the Mississippi Delta region of the US.
I AM REALLY EXCITED!! and my hall director in the building where we all live is going too!!
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