Our time with our first speaker, Phil Cunningham, has been pretty interesting so far. Phil was born in Ireland, is Canadian, but lives in California now with his wife & 2 girls (1on the way too!) He is pretty involved in raising awareness for justice issues of all kinds and has been introducing us to some cool stuff. My favorite thing so far has been something called the Girl Effect, an organization that promotes the education of young girls in an attempt to rectify situations of injustice that uneducated girls in poverty statistically face. Please take a look at their videos... they're really really cool & hopeful.
Well (drum roll please) we found out today where our potential outreach locations will be. There has been a lot of confusion because one of the staff members decided to step down last week, so we thought there were only going to be 2 outreaches instead of the 3 that there usually are. But unexpectedly, they decided to throw in a “wild card” which would be essentially student-led.
Anyway, without further ado, our locations are Muizenberg, South Africa; the Middle East (Israel or Jordan); and the wild card – either Thailand or Vanuatu (an island near New Zealand). Now, we are going to have a few days to process the choices and on Friday, each student will hand in their top choice & reasons why, and then the staff will try to assemble teams based on who lists which choices. It’s still possible that we will have only 2 teams, just depending on where the interest lies.
I’m fairly confident about where I want to go – but I think I’ll wait to say anything until we find out for certain where we’ll be sent. Anyway, this is exciting… thinking about the next step…I’m definitely ready to just find out!
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