The Africa Fellowship
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SAMPLE ITINERARY
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What follows are just a few highlights of the Fellowship program itinerary, which is designed to bring home to participants the horrible challenges of AIDS and poverty, to inspire them to want to use their energies throughout their lives to get the U.S. to do more to help. However, this will not be a completely depressing trip -- indeed, we will come away with a renewed vigor and a sense of hope from the opportunities we see realized in places like Cape Town, South Africa, one of the world's best cities.
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The Apartheid Museum The Economist says, “for an in-depth, historic take on the nation’s four decades of state-approved racism, visit the excellent Apartheid Museum;” it is a sign of the museum’s sobering emotional power to note that its curator drew “inspiration” in part from Washington’s Holocaust Museum, |
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| AIDS Orphanage Visit The statistics are staggering: 5.4 million South Africans are infected with HIV - the highest number in the world. One in five South African adults is HIV positive. Every day, 900 South Africans die of AIDS. But we’ll also put a face on the sobering statistic of 1,200,000 orphans in South Africa, by meeting AIDS orphans and volunteering at an orphanage. |
The AIDS Crisis: Full Day of Meetings AIDS Briefings: What is being done? What more should be done? Could the USA do more to help? What are the lessons of the controversies over South Africa’s response to AIDS? We will get a range of answers, from the South African and US officials, from NGOs like The Global Fund, etc. |
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| Meetings with Top South African Leaders Former President F.W. de Klerk, shown above at right receiving the Nobel Peace Prize together with Nelson Mandela, is among the types of people that Africa Fellowship participants will meet with. Thanks to generous support of a prominent leader on the ground in South Africa, students also will be able to receive a private tour of parliament and to meet with current government leaders. |
Prince Cedza Dlamini's Ubuntu Institute for Young Social Entrepreneurs We will learn more about the hard work Prince Cedza has achieved as an impassioned humanitarian, social entrepreneur, and spokesperson for the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. Prince Cedza, grandson of Nelson Mandela and of HM King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, studied at Tufts University and currently leads the the Ubuntu Institute for Young Social Entrepreneurs. |
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| The JSE: 16th Largest Stock Exchange in the World The JSE Limited (previously the Johannesburg Securities Exchange) is the largest stock exchange in Africa. As of September 2006, the market capitalization of the JSE was US$579.1 billion, and it presently is the 16th largest stock exchange worldwide. We will also sit down with successful business leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss challenges and opportunities, and ways to strengthen US businesses' investment in Africa. |
South Africa: Best in the World? While the trip will encompass many full-impact, frank examinations of the many challenges facing South Africa, and Africa generally -- from AIDS to poverty to energy issues -- it also is important to get a sense of possibility for the future. Cape Town has with gems like the Cape Grace Hotel (pictured) -- named several years ago by Conde Nast Traveler magazine as the best hotel in the entire world -- and the city feels remarkably like San Francisco in areas. |
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.Header photo credit: Soweto photo courtesy of the Heritage Preservation Program, Georgia State University. Used with permission.
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