Don't know about you, but personally I feel that there are not enough positive stories about urban education and the youth therein. Here's an exception:A group of Kalamazoo students will leave on an overseas trip today, but they won’t be spending time on the beach or at tourist attractions.
Eight students from Kalamazoo and six adults will spend 15 days learning about culture in Senegal and doing community service as part of the Urban Youth for Africa. The program, sponsored by the Kalamazoo Deacon’s Conference, is in its third year and its first as a partner of Clean Water for the World.
“There are ways to learn outside school,” Cranston Mitchell, 18, said. “You can learn anywhere.”
The students, who will be staying near the capitol city of Dakar, will be matched up with local students to do workshops, find common ground and engage in “mutual culture exchanges” in collaboration with the Africulturban Community Center, a radio station, youth center and performance space in Pikine.
And they will install a water purification system at the community center as well as one at a school in Pikine.
www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/06/8_kalamazoo_students_headed_to.html
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