Hey Students,
This summer how would you like to...

Travel to Africa?
Teach in Rural Villages?
Learn Swahili?

Well, instead of sitting in another typical summer school course, updating your Facebook status, how would you like to travel to another country and possibly earn college credits for teaching about HIV/AIDS in AFRICA? Well, its possible! Support For International Change is looking for motivated and dedicated students who have an interest in taking their education and spreading their knowledge to rural villages in Eastern Africa. SIC offers structured 8 and 12 week volunteer programs open to students and recent alumni of participating schools, including The University of Arizona.

Support for International Change (SIC) focuses on teaching community members and school children how to protect themselves from HIV and how to care for those who are already infected by AIDS. Our volunteer satisfaction ratings have consistently been very high, and we are committed to further improving our programs and we would like you to be our next group of volunteers for Summer 2012!!!

Each program begins with an intensive, expert-led orientation. A week into orientation, volunteers move into a homestay with a host Tanzanian family. After orientation, your primary work as a volunteer will be to run an HIV awareness campaign within your community. The majority of your time will be spent teaching, lesson planning, and training peer educators, and you will also be involved in community assessment work within your village. In addition to these responsibilities, we urge volunteers to take the lead on other projects related to our work.

We believe that education is essential in slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS in northern Tanzania. Each year, student volunteers bring new energy and talents to our work!!! The deadline for online applications is Thursday, February 28th! Please get your applications in, and good luck!

For more information...
Visit our website: http://www.sichange.org
Email us at: uofa@sichange.org

Source:
http://physiologynews.blogspot.com/2013/02/support-for-international-change-sic.html