Tuesday, December 09th, 2014
Vietnam Welcomes America with Open Arms
By Llewellyn King No grunt slogging through the jungles of Vietnam could imagine that in 2014, 41 years after the end of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese would be welcoming back Americans as investors, tourists, advisers and protectors. Next year is a big year in Vietnam. It is the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, on April 30, 1975.… [Read Full Article]Education Travel,Global Community,Global Education,Peace Works Travel,Peace Works Travel,Peace Works Travel Upcoming Trips,Vietnam Student Trips,Vietnam War
Friday, November 14th, 2014
President Obama fostering human rights and partnership with Myanmar
Obama meets Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi at home where she was kept under arrest. Image: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 hours ago President Barack Obama gave a blunt assessment Friday of the need for further reform in Myanmar's move toward democracy, weighing into sensitive controversies over… [Read Full Article]Education Travel,education travel programs,education travel tours,educational field trips,Educational travel programs,Global Community,Global Education,Live Learn Travel,Myanmar News,Peace Works Travel,Peace Works Travel,Peace Works Travel Upcoming Trips,Political Thoughts,Power to the Peaceful
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Learning Through Travel
Experiential Programs Go Deep Thursday, November 13, 2014 by TYLER HAYDEN There’s more to learning than the box of the classroom and the tedium of textbooks, and when students and teachers escape outside, horizons are inevitably broadened. While Santa Barbara schools have long scheduled field trips to Yosemite, Space Camp, and Washington, D.C. — tried-and-true excursions… [Read Full Article]Education Travel,education travel programs,education travel tours,educational field trips,Educational travel programs,free travel for teachers,Global Community,Global Education,Live Learn Travel,Peace Works Travel,Peace Works Travel,Power to the Peaceful,Student travelers
Saturday, October 25th, 2014
From a Rwandan Dump to the Halls of Harvard
Justus Uwayesu, rescued at 9 from the streets of Rwanda, is enrolled as a freshman at Harvard.Credit Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times BOSTON — Nine years old and orphaned by ethnic genocide, he was living in a burned-out car in a Rwandan garbage dump where he scavenged for food and clothes. Daytimes, he was a street beggar.… [Read Full Article]Education Travel,education travel programs,Global Community,Global Education,Live Learn Travel,Peace Works Travel,Peace Works Travel,Power to the Peaceful
Wednesday, October 22th, 2014
Kim Phuc Visits Southern California Schools
Kim Phuc, the Vietnam War's iconic "napalm girl" featured in Nick Ut's 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning image, speaks to students of Brentwood School, Archer School, Westridge School and Polytechnic School. Students are moved by Kim's message of loving kindness, peace, and forgiveness for a war-free world. Kim speaks about the iconic image, the Vietnam War and her journey to forgiveness. Kim… [Read Full Article]Kim Phúc,Kim Phúc Vietnam War Survivor,Nick Ut,Peace Works Travel,Power to the Peaceful,Vietnam Student Trips,Vietnam War,War,War/Photography