SHOUT Canada
City Government/Municipal Government - N/A, N/A, CA
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About SHOUTSHOUT Canada is a grassroots, national, not-for-profit organization administered by a volunteer Board of Governors. Reflections on Rwanda (RoR) is SHOUT Canada's flagship program, in the context of its primary organizational mandate, which is to help foster a generation of students and young professionals with the power, voice, and determination to affect change.Reflections on RwandaThe RoR program was conceptualized and created in 2008 by the organization's founding members who were all full-time students at the time. The year was spent putting together a pilot project, which came to fruition in the summer of 2009. Indeed, the group spent the better part of that summer in Rwanda visiting historical sites, solidifying relationships with individuals, as wells as governmental and non-governmental groups. The pilot project was implemented to lay the grounding for the 2010 RoR program.HistoryOn May 17th 2010, the first RoR cohort, comprised of 11 young Canadians from all corners of the country, met at London's Heathrow Airport to be briefed about their imminent arrival in Kigali. On May 15th, 2011, the second RoR cohort landed in Kigali. In this context, SHOUT Canada is pleased to be offering the RoR program again in 2018. Our GoalOur goal is to provide genocide education to Canadians through campus programming and international field trips, to create a forum/network for students and young academics, to assist in curriculum creation, and to create policy proposals. Upon completion of the program, participants have been motivated to share the knowledge gained from the trip through various avenues, including the development of social justice educational programs, delivering presentations, and leading discussions relating to the genocide and related topics with various audiences. Past participants are now leading the planning and expansion of this year's program and the SHOUT Canada organization. We are excited to begin the application process to select the group of students who will participate in the program in the summer of 2018. What we are not!Our RoR program is not a vacation, nor is it a replacement for a touristic trip to Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Our program was deliberately designed and structured as an educational program to study genocide. It is also designed to keep costs as low as possible by dealing directly with our Rwandan partners. We stay in local hotels and eat almost entirely in local restaurants. Therefore, participants should not expect tourist class accommodation or restaurants. Rwanda is a beautiful country with world class tourist attractions and amenities. We encourage all and any interested applicants to consider extending their stay in the country if they wish to view these sites.
