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Preparing students for global citizenship!

Ethically Engaged Youth's (EEY) mission is to inspire high school students to engage as active global citizens through full-immersion, service programs.

Yet, when you learn of EEY's philosophical underpinnings, its educational programming, and its economic structure, you will appreciate that its purpose is profoundly more than providing youth an opportunity to do community service in other cultures, as noble as that might be.

Making a difference each year!

Ethically engaged youth believes that citizenship begins by responding to those who ask for assistance.

Imagine the learning that occurs for an EEY student when rebuilding a home in NOLA's 9th Ward, working side-by-side with the owner of that home - years after Katrina! Imagine, too, having an audience with the founder of an elementary school in Zambia: the chance to learn how education can lift children orphaned by AIDS to take ownership of their own nation's development toward economic independence. Issues of housing, education, health, and fresh water are inextricably intertwined with development, stability, and independence.

EEY programs explore these issues through the lenses of politics, economics, culture, ethics, and geography. What variables are particular to the area, region, or nation? What variables are universal? These are the types of inquiries that shape an EEY experience.

helping our organization

If you believe that our youth - our world - would benefit from studying major issues (e.g. children orphaned by AIDS; inadequate educational opportunities; intractable poverty; insufficient housing) as they manifest in various settings around the world, please consider being an EEY sponsor. We know you would like to participate in addressing such issues: as an EEY sponsor you can and at the same time contribute to the development of future global leaders.

 

EEY Summer 2010

  • Kenya
    Construction of AIDS Orphanage, Community Building
  • Nepal
    Refurbishing School Building; Fresh Water Project
  • New Orleans
    Rebuilding communities in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
  • Bolivia
    Focuses on supporting mobile clinics, participating in local training, and building filters for a portable water initiative.

EEY trip partners

"The biggest impact that my trip had on my character is that now I am committed to working to solve some of the issues I saw while I was in India. Without living there and being completely immersed in their culture, their poverty, and their friendliness, I would never have been truly invested in working to help them. In the future I want to make sure to spend at least a few weeks each year working as a doctor in areas where they do not have access to health care, and even more importantly I want to be involved in organizations, such as Millennium Promise, that are working to solve the core problems of endemic poverty. As cliche as it sounds, my trip to India changed my life, and I hope more students can have the opportunity to change theirs."

  Christiana White;
India: '07
Jefferson Scholar
University of Virginia