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MCIV
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UPCOMING EVENTS - MCIV
Hosts The 2008 Algerian Youth Leadership
Program, August 16-30 in Bozeman, Montana
A program of the U.S. Department of
State Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs
Administered in the United States by World
Learning Visitor Exchange Program in Partnership with the SIT Graduate
Institute and the Montana Center for International Visitors
The Algerian Youth
Leadership Program is a six-week youth leadership program, which begins with English language training in
Algeria and continues in the United States for a four-week exchange
program for Algerian teenagers ages 15-17. The program aims to develop a
cadre of young adults in Algeria who have a strong commitment to community
development, an awareness of current and global issues, and strong
interpersonal leadership skills, foster relationships among youth from
different regional backgrounds with in Algeria, and to promote mutual
understanding, respect and collaboration between the United States and
Algeria. Students will begin their program in Washington D.C. to look at
civic education in the United States. The group will then travel to
Brattleboro, Vermont for the global youth leadership camp. The final
program segment will take place in Bozeman, Montana where students will
stay with host families and participate in a variety of community based
activities. The twenty-two
Algerian participants will be joined by ten American high-school students
during their Washington, DC and Brattleboro, VT programs.
For more information, please contact:
Doris Armstrong
Executive Director
P.O. Box 5114
Bozeman, MT 59717
TEL: (406) 994-4887
FAX: (406) 994-4903
E-MAIL: mtcenter@montana.edu
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