Global outreach
C OMMUNITY MEMBERS GET A WORLD VIEW
Seminar students
conduct research
in Uganda
When the word went out that SG would be offer-
ing a global studies course in which participants would
travel to Uganda, the student buzz was
high. Turns out for good reason. The
course, open to seniors, had students in
high gear all year long, and culminated in
a 10-day trip to the African nation in March.
Matt Bakios, Kathryn Connor, Sofia Covarrubias,
Alia Eads, Sophie Goodwin, Tori Hensel, Alex Mer-
chant, Sasha Munn, Will O’Connor and Alex Regan,
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took part in the seminar, along with faculty members
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Kevin Held, Patrick Durning and Carrie Kelly.
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Topics the students researched included AIDS,
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THR women’s rights, refugee issues, and microfinance.
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up to Murchison Falls, back through Nakasongola
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and ended in Kampala. During the trip, they visited
Above: Save the Children brought Will O’Connor ’08 and other members of the Save the Children, UNICEF, the UN Refugee Agency,
Global Studies seminar to an African village in Nakasangola while they were on a
Refugee Law Project, Finca and Centenary microloan
trip to Uganda in March. “I brought a soccer ball to play with the boys and men
banks, the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
of the village, and we played for a while, with me entertaining the crowd with my
lack of soccer skills,” O’Connor said. Save the Children is working with school
tion, Nature Uganda, the Center for Women in Gov-
dropouts in the village to teach them vocational skills.
ernment, the Center for Domestic Violence
Prevention, an HIV/AIDS clinic, Makarere Univer-
Below: Children in Uganda surround Sofia Covarrubias ’08 during a Global sity, four high schools and one primary school.
Studies seminar trip in March.
“As I go through the pictures I took, as I read
the notes I took while interviewing people, as I
continue to read about the socio-economic situation
in East Africa and Uganda, I remember vividly
everything I saw, I heard and I tasted on this trip,”
wrote Covarrubias after the journey.
“I left Uganda wishing I could have done so
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much more for the kids, for the women, and for the
men we met. It was so frustrating to see these people
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and know that they have never seen the world we
live in.”
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Next March, students in Jaccaci’s Seminar in
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Global Studies class will visit Panama, focusing their
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research on Central America along with Spanish
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teachers Anthony Perry and Merilyn Wilber.
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