South Africa

Focus: Development & Poverty Reduction
Location: Grahamstown and Cape Town
Languages: English, Xhosa and Afrikaans
Dates: June 30 - July 27, 2009
Housing: Single & shared in a student residence
General Applicants Program Fee: $5,600;
Northeastern Univ. Program Fee: Covered by Summer Tuition.
General Application: $35 Deposit Due at Enroll: $500
Notes:  Two meals daily, airfare, housing, airport transfers, entrances, emergency medical evacuation, and course fees.  Not included: personal basic medical insurance and personal expenses while in country.
Admissions: Online   

What does it take to forge social change in South Africa? How do you confront issues as overwhelming as apartheid and its aftermath, poverty, crime, unemployment, clean water, racism, environmental degradation and AIDS, to name just a few? Which tough choices do you make when investing for the future? 

Global business people, the staff of nongovernmental organizations, diplomats, aid officials, and employees of international organizations deal with these issues on a daily basis. These are also the very real situations that confront South Africans every day, including young South Africans. But where will you get the knowledge, skills and attitudes to take on these issues? By joining Global PACT, you'll discover the fundamentals of social-change start-up and management by beginning a new project in South Africa through a unique partnership with Global PACT and Rhodes University.