Travel to Peru as a BRIDGE'S mentor! You'll work with the students of Colegio Pukllasunchis to create a unique portrait of an indigenous community in transition. In this workshop we will use photography, digital storytelling, and the Internet to create an online, interactive virtual community. Our goal is to bring the lives of Peruvian youth into classrooms around the world.

About Bridges to Understanding

Bridges to Understanding engages students worldwide in direct, interactive learning and storytelling to build cross-cultural understanding.

We enable children to share their cultures and issues in their communities using technologies such as digital storytelling, live video conferencing, in-person student exchanges, and teacher-led on-line communication. Each year volunteers travel with Bridges' staff to our partner schools around the world, learning side by side with the students and teachers through our digital storytelling workshops.

We provide an active learning environment where people from radically different backgrounds can learn directly from, rather than about each other. Our interactive online program connects middle and high school students in the developed world with their contemporaries in indigenous communities.

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