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SAWIP’s curriculum is designed to achieve the following outcomes:
- Adopting SAWIP’s core values
- Enhancing leadership skills
- Encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit with a focus on social entrepreneurship
- Supporting active youth leadership in determining a positive future for South Africa
- Understanding of what it means to be a South African in a global context by building a common identity, recognizing challenges that exist and testing possible solutions to these challenges
- Gaining global insights, perspectives and mutual understanding with a special focus on strengthening and deepening relationships on multiple levels between the United States of America and South Africa
The curriculum is structured and organized in the following way:
April and May - South Africa
- Selection Camp
- Orientation Camp
- Weekly development sessions/experiences
- Individual service projects
- Fundraising by students
June and July - Washington, DC
- Leadership-building curriculum and discussions including topics such as race relations, conflict resolution, civil rights and democracy
- Meetings with key professionals in the fields of interest to SAWIP students
- Part-time work exposure at various government, NGO and private organizations
- Congressional Forum with Senator Johnny Isakson
- Site visits to cultural landmarks around Washington, DC
- A long weekend in New York City which exposes students to both the political and financial sectors, including a meeting with the South African UN Delegation.
- Engagement with young leaders from the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America
August and September - South Africa
- Development sessions on sustainability and learning implementation
- Team Service Project
- Individual written evaluative program reports submitted
- Feedback discussion with SAWIP Board
- Graduation and induction into the Alumni Network
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