GATE (Global Awareness Through Experience)

Oaxaca, Mexico

January 29, 2010 - February 6, 2011

Registration Deadline: October 28, 2010

Meet face-to-face in Oaxaca the indigenous reality that includes a variety of ethnic cultures, traditional cuisine, arts and handicrafts. Learn of the challenges for education and agricultural sustainability. Understand the reasons for increased emigration from this southern state and the struggle for inclusion in a society with different values.

Santo Domingo church and museum.

This program will include most (or all) of the following:

Walk the historic center of Oaxaca City
Guided explorations of the Rufino Tamayo Prehistoric Art Museum
Visit area villages known world-wide for the quality of their indigenous arts and handicrafts
Presentation on human rights
Walk around El Tule--2000+ year old Cypress tree
Visit a women's cooperative
Learn how people's lives are impacted by policy

Click here to download a flyer.

Upcoming Trips

January 29, 2010 - February 6, 2011

Registration Deadline: October 28, 2010

Trip Cost: $1250.00* Plus Registration Fee

Private Room $200.00

*Airfare not included. All trips include transportation (except taxi to airport at the end of the trip), accomodations, and food (except one evening meal).

"Our destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things." -Henry Miller