Project Summary FIU Global Learning-Students Offering Support 2013 Service Trip Cusco, Peru Trip Details Duration May 15-30,2013 Project Site Local orphanage: Hogar de Menores (Home for Children) “Maria Salome Ferro” and Casa Acogida “Virgen Natividad” Cusco, Peru Participants Diva Hurtado, SOS President Nidia Rivera, SOS VP of Outreach Andres Aarango, SOS VP of Human Resources […]
GlobeMed Profiled by FIU News
GlobeMed, a student organization working to promote public health equity in Guatemala, was featured in a December 23rd article on FIU News. GlobeMed works closely with a partner organization in the country, Escuela de la Calle, to address the needs of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) via internships for FIU students. The […]
Mapping Miami’s Cultures
By Moses Shumow, Ph.D. Miami is often called a center of globalization, a crossroads of different cultures, ethnicities, and nationalities – even the “capital” of Latin America. But what does it mean to live in a global city? What exactly does that look like? And given the huge impact of migration across the region, how […]
Global Learning Hosts Income Inequality Film Screening With Campus Partners
On Feb. 20, 2014, FIU hosted a screening of the Sundance award-winning documentary Inequality for All, followed by a live web chat with Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. This event was hosted by the Office of Global Learning Initiatives in partnership with the Center for Leadership and Service, Center for Labor Research and Studies, and […]
Humanitarian Carl Wilkens Engages Global Learning Classes
We are excited to announce that Carl Wilkens, activist and humanitarian, led off our Spring 2014 Tuesday Times Roundtable on January 14. Mr. Wilkens, the only American who remained in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, distributed essential goods to orphans throughout Kigali. Carl currently runs World Outside My Shoes, a nonprofit inspiring students to engage with “the other.” […]