Global Awareness Program
Worldhealer’s first local project is located in Santa Barbara, California. Facilitated by Worldhealer, Inc., the Worldhealer Global Awareness Program was started as a club at the University of California, Santa Barbara in January 2010 by student volunteers. The first task of the club was to collect student ideas to help with the development the local project. Three student leaders, responsible for getting the club off the ground, recruited other UCSB students and reached out to schools in the county of Santa Barbara to offer their student-to-student mentorship program.
The program’s mission is to enhance the scope of global studies in local schools and to foster an understanding of our responsibilities as participants in an increasingly globalized world. Worldhealer organizes guest speakers and international visitors for the UCSB club to inspire members of the far-reaching importance of their work, as they are both volunteers and participants. The university students then introduce global topics to high school and junior high students. Together, they create workshops for younger age groups, forging the student-to-student mentorship program. Collectively, all the students involved with the Global Awareness Program will put on community presentations at the end of each school term. Worldhealer guides them each step of the way, but ultimately allows the students to take ownership of the program. Worldhealer is an advocate for hands-on learning and believes that by sharing our knowledge we strengthen our understanding and continue the learning process.
Worldhealer’s long-term goal is to create exchange programs for personal and professional development between our local community and communities abroad. This exchange will add international education and travel opportunities, as well as the use of technology to facilitate instant contact between communities. This allows participants from the local program to communicate directly with participants around the globe, removing barriers of distance, culture, and language. Direct communication and cultural exchange will illustrate how problems in other countries affect our local communities and how our communities are microcosms of the wider world.
If you are interested in a Global Awareness Program in your school, please contact us today!
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