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Huskies with Heart: Students spend summer making Global imPACT
Megan Jicha
Issue date: 9/10/07 Section: Campus Life
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Noticing a need, then filling it. A simple concept, yet one that few people follow through with. It's a concept that led three students to help start an art-based project for young boys in a shelter in Grahamstown, South Africa.
These three students, Madison MacLean, Shane Lloyd and Erin Smyth, found the need of instilling "a sense of pride and ownership in the boys [at the shelter], so that they will have incentive to stay in the shelter instead of living on the streets," said MacLean, a middler international affairs and political science major.
To address the issue, they, along with three students from Rhodes University, a university in South Africa, created The Isipho Project for the Eloxulweni Shelter in Grahamstown.
"The Isipho Project focuses on providing the children at the Eloxulweni Shelter an opportunity to creatively improve the condition of their shelter," said Lloyd, a senior behavioral neuroscience major.
The project consists of having the boys in the shelter use donated supplies from local businesses to create art. The boys then sell their work at local cafés with all proceeds going directly back to the shelter.
Through this process, the Isipho Project will thus instill "self-awareness, growth and initiative," Lloyd said. "We hope to provide every child with a sense of purpose in the world."
MacLean, Lloyd and Smyth were immersed in the culture and society of Grahamstown, South Africa during a Dialogue of Civilizations trip.
The Dialogue of Civilization program "provides participants with on-the-ground experience and exposure to politics and public policy, business and commerce, religion and society, civil society and non-profits, the arts and popular culture, public health and human rights, women and gender," and challenges participants to "integrate on site cultural and professional learning with their own personal objectives," according to the program's website.
Students on the trip took part in a program called Global Partnerships for Activism and Cross-Cultural Training (Global PACT), which teaches individuals about international networking, MacLean said.
These three students, Madison MacLean, Shane Lloyd and Erin Smyth, found the need of instilling "a sense of pride and ownership in the boys [at the shelter], so that they will have incentive to stay in the shelter instead of living on the streets," said MacLean, a middler international affairs and political science major.
To address the issue, they, along with three students from Rhodes University, a university in South Africa, created The Isipho Project for the Eloxulweni Shelter in Grahamstown.
"The Isipho Project focuses on providing the children at the Eloxulweni Shelter an opportunity to creatively improve the condition of their shelter," said Lloyd, a senior behavioral neuroscience major.
The project consists of having the boys in the shelter use donated supplies from local businesses to create art. The boys then sell their work at local cafés with all proceeds going directly back to the shelter.
Through this process, the Isipho Project will thus instill "self-awareness, growth and initiative," Lloyd said. "We hope to provide every child with a sense of purpose in the world."
MacLean, Lloyd and Smyth were immersed in the culture and society of Grahamstown, South Africa during a Dialogue of Civilizations trip.
The Dialogue of Civilization program "provides participants with on-the-ground experience and exposure to politics and public policy, business and commerce, religion and society, civil society and non-profits, the arts and popular culture, public health and human rights, women and gender," and challenges participants to "integrate on site cultural and professional learning with their own personal objectives," according to the program's website.
Students on the trip took part in a program called Global Partnerships for Activism and Cross-Cultural Training (Global PACT), which teaches individuals about international networking, MacLean said.
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