WILLIAM FINLAY: Weve been working with a particular NGO in the township and they do two things: they run a number of these creches, which are basically day care centers for children whose parents are working, and the library in the community where there are some computers. Our students typically work either with the little kids in the day cares or they work in the library and teach very basic computer skills to mostly young adults.
Hillary Kinsey is studying international affairs. She spent three weeks in the Stellenbosch program.
HILLARY KINSEY: It was interesting to learn the history of the area and the recent development withdemocracy and that sort of thing, and then talk to these people and see what the social dynamics were, what the ethnic divisions were, how certain groups felt about other groups.
When Ms. Kinsey returned from South Africa recently, she and other students in the program created a nonprofit organization.
HILLARY KINSEY: We called it Ubunto, which is a South African concept coined by Desmond Tutu, and it means I am because we are. The idea is kind of based around relationships within society and what generates prosperity for the whole. And so we kind of took that notion and translate into a larger international community.
She says the goal is to help improve education and development in South Africa.
Mark Lenhart is the executive director of CET Academic Programs. Each year, that company places more than one thousand students in semester and summer study programs. The programs are in China, Jordan, the Czech Republic and other countries.
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