Reach the World

New York

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Charity Overview

RTW transforms the energy of volunteer world travellers into a global mentoring resource for disadvantaged young people. Volunteers are trained, selected and matched with classrooms for a semester. Through a highly structured programme of web-based journalism and video-conferencing, RTW students go on virtual journeys with their global mentors and expand their worldview in the process. The majority of these global mentors are college students on study abroad programmes.

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Project Summary

With ICAP’s support, REACH THE WORLD (RTW) will expand its successful school-day programme to respond to the demand for global education in the after-school marketplace. It will pilot three after-school programmes in the spring of 2012 and then expand these during the 2012-2013 school year to serve Title I after-school sites throughout the NY/NJ area. The charity’s long-term vision is to build a pipeline of globally-competent students, from elementary school all the way through college.