What is Global Xchange?
Global Xchange aims to support the development of active global citizens committed to working for positive change within communities.
It's a partnership programme managed and delivered by the British Council and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Our joint aim is to tackle poverty and inequality through a programme of international volunteer exchange.
Youth Xchange
APPLY NOW for an October 2010 exchange between, Belfast and South Africa. If you are aged 18 to 25, been living in Belfast for the past year and available to take part in a 6 month programme beginning this October we want to hear from you!
You will live and volunteer together with 19 international volunteers for three months in Durban, South Africa and three months in Belfast contributing to local projects, while at the same time gaining new skills, new friends and new perspectives.
Aplication Form More InformationProgramme Developments: Multi-lateral Community Xchange
Community Xchange (CX) is a professional development programme for formal and informal community leaders. Through a range of activities Community Xchange aims to build the skills of participants to facilitate the positive participation of young people as active global citizens, and develop inter cultural dialogue that makes a positive difference to their communities.
Teams of 30 community workers, with equal numbers from the UK and an overseas partner country, work in host communities for 3 weeks in the UK and 3 weeks in the overseas country. Over the course of an exchange participants take part in professional development modules, work attachments and shadowing, and community events to promote active citizenship among young people.
Durban January 2010 & Belfast March 2010
The theme of this exchange is ‘Creative Methodologies in Youth and Community Work’ and the project links 3 cities in the Northern hemisphere (Belfast, Paris and Los Angeles) with 3 cities in the Southern hemisphere (Durban in South Africa, Freetown in Sierra Leone and Kigali in Rwanda).
5 Youth Workers / Community Development Workers have been recruited from Belfast and are joining with 25 others recruited from the 5 other cities involved in the project. The entire group spent 3 weeks in Durban living in family homestays and undertaking community placements as well as visiting organisations and communities of interest. This leg of the project took place in January 2010 and was followed by a similar 3 week programme in Belfast in March 2010.
The United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
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