Washington DC Field Trip
October 15, 2009
After completing three weeks at the Global Youth Village, travel with your new friends and cabinmates to Washington DC.
While in the nation’s capitol, visit museums, non-governmental organizations, goverment agencies, and private businesses. Talk with professionals doing work in the areas of community action and democratization.
Visits may include:
- White House, Capitol, Supreme Court
- Monuments
- Special session with international students on U.S. system of government
- United Nations High Commission on Refugees
- Amnesty International
- World Bank – Poverty Network and Debt Cancellation
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- Association for Women in Development
- Search for Common Ground
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Smithsonian Museums
- Newseum – exhibits and seminars on the role of the media
