Yachana Study Abroad Program

Website

: http://www.yachana.org.ec

The Idea

When I was at the Ashoka U conference in ASU in February, I was promoting our new program of a semester abroad at the Yachana Institute in the Amazon region of Ecuador. This is a joint effort of Yachana and BCA Study Abroad, a US based study abroad organization with 50 years experience.

The Specifics

This program is interesting because it is based in the Amazon with a focus on sustainability and the environment. Students will study four modules of three weeks each plus have time for other travel throughout the country. They will be spending their time in the foundation’s “living laboratory” of 4,300 acres of rainforest.

I was very pleased to see the strong interest in the semester abroad program from a number of people representing different universities throughout the US. Since my return to Ecuador, I have reached out to these universities plus there has been a Skype conference with different professors from a major university and one of their professors will come to visit Yachana in June to further explore the idea.

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