Project Duration : 6 years
Start/End Date: 2004 - Ongoing
 

One World Youth Project (OWYP), facilitates high quality partnerships between middle and high schools or youth groups worldwide for the purpose of cultural exchange and collaborative community service toward the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals.  Through a unique curriculum that encourages collaborative learning and the leadership of local university students, OWYP creates global partnerships while strengthening local communities. It is our belief that recognizing one's existence in a global community of shared challenges at a young age promotes a future of cross-cultural collaboration.

Partnering Organization(s):  Georgetown University

One World Youth Project
USA
www.oneworldyouthproject.org
202.747.0357
Jess Rimington  Jess@oneworldyouthproject.org

Project Mission:  One World Youth Project is a youth-for-youth powered movement linking schools globally in service-learning to prepare the next generation for the globalized 21st Century.

Project Objective(s):  To foster the growth of empowered, discerning and empathetic global citizens and take action to achieve global challenges present today.

Target group(s) : Youth (specifically middle/high school students and university students) worldwide
Geographical scope(s) of project: Global

Countries involved : The countries that are involved with OWYP span the globe. The countries that have been involved are:
• Tanzania
• USA
• Costa Rica
• Uganda
• Mongolia
• Morocco
• South Africa
• India
• Haiti
• Mexico
• Brazil
• China
• Cameroon
• Ghana
• Liberia
• Sri Lanka
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Nigeria
• Cote D’Ivoire
• Czech Republic
• Canada
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Peru
• Sierra Leone
• Kosovo
• Rwanda
• Turkey
• Guatemala
• United Arab Emirates

Summary about the project:  Attached

US involvement/contribution within the project:  Many of the schools that we pair in learning partnerships are US schools, though our geographic focus is not US-centric. These schools have collaborated with other classrooms throughout the world for the purpose of cultural exchange, understanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and developing service-learning projects.

Achievements/progress to date: To date we have paired 67 schools throughout the world for learning partnerships and seen over 40 youth-led community MDG service projects developed and implemented.  Over 3,200 online curriculum responses have been recorded. We have also begun our university program this past year to engage university students as facilitators of our curriculum in local middle and high school classrooms with Georgetown University in Washington DC and will be expanding to 6 university campuses next year.
 

Contact person for the project: Jess Rimington, jess@oneworldyouthproject.org