Global Xchange is an international volunteer exchange programme for young people aged 18 – 25yrs. A team of 18 volunteers work in an overseas community for three months and then in a UK community for three months. The programme is a partnership between Voluntary Services Overseas and the British Council in the UK and Youth Association for Population and Development in Egypt.
• Promote Global Citizenship through an exchange of experiences, understanding & ideas.
• Generate links and achieve lasting impacts within communities in the UK and overseas.
• Empower young people from many different backgrounds with new skills, confidence and inspiration to go on to make positive contributions to the world.
In March, a team of 18 volunteers - recruited equally from the UK and Egypt will travel to the town and region of Asyut in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt to live and work for three months. The team will then travel to Hounslow in West London in the second week of June. They will live in cross-cultural pairs in host families and work as volunteers with community organisations. They will work in their placements for four days a week. The fifth day will be committed to Global Citizenship Days - focusing on issues they are learning about in the community, in their placements, and about the wider theme of the project - which this year is Youth Empowerment and Social Inclusion. The volunteers will also be organising Community Action Days, where they will help to support or develop events in the community.
Volunteers were selected both in Egypt and the UK to form a diverse group with different educational cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds. They will be a team of five female and 4 male Egyptian/British pairs (counterparts), aged 18 – 25 who all share a positive approach to learning about themselves and other cultures through being active in two local communities in the UK and Egypt.
Global Xchange Team for March - August 2009 exchange is formed. You can apply next December 2009 for the exchange which will start on March 2010. Please keep visiting Global Xchange page for more information and updates.
To find out more about Global Xchange in other countries, please visit: www.globalxchange.org.uk
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