GATE (Global Awareness Through Experience)

Oaxaca, Mexico

February 23 - March 3, 2013

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.

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

Walk the historic center of Oaxaca City
Visit area villages known world-wide for the quality of their indigenous arts and handicrafts
Become aware of human rights issues in the state of Oaxaca
Walk around El Tule--2000+ year old Cypress tree
Visit a women's cooperative
Learn how people's lives are impacted by policy

Upcoming Trips

February 23 - March 3, 2013

Program fee: $1,350.00* plus registration fee

Registration fee: $100.00 if registered by the deadline date.

* $150.00 late registration fee.

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

"We may feel that we have our finger on the pulse of what's

going on with our same hemisphere neighbors, but it is only

by immersing ourselves in the details of life in a country like

Mexico (and a State like Oaxaca) that we can come

close to really understanding it."

~ John & Gloria McManus, California