The Youth Leadership Experience, July 2009

14 students were selected to visit Nottingham, Phoenix & Seattle, to stay with host families, develop their leadership skills, and represent their country in cross-cultural and inter-faith discussions.

 
THE PROGRAM:

EWI gave 14 Jordanian students the unique opportunity to travel to the United Kingdom, and 10 of them to the United States, to participate in cultural-exchange programs and to help bridge the East-West divide. Living with host families and building relationship with students from the United States and England, the Jordanians represented their country and gained valuable leadership insights and experience. The trip gave them great exposure to the way young people in the West think, and the opportunity to express how modern, young Jordanians see the world too.
 
Speakers included prominent social, religious, political, educational and business leaders from 3 different cities, and the program included shared-experiences at famous sites, and hands-on learning through community service projects.
 
The students were partially sponsored by the King Abdullah II Fund for Development, and EWI partnered with organizations that work with young people and who expressed a desire to build bridges with the Arab world. In the UK they partnered with the Bridges Project, which works with different ethnicities and faiths in British Society, and in the United States with Leadership Development Seminars, a non-profit that empowers young people. 

 
These students left a strong impression wherever they went, and returned with friendships that will continue long into the future. 

To read the full report on this event, click here

To see the article about this trip in O.C Magazine, click here