International Service Learning in Ghana

The Ghana International Service Learning program, organized by CAS and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, encourages the deep immersion of women into a foreign country by providing internship opportunities with women’s organizations. Ghana ISL Program Director Abena P. A. Busia has approached a number of women’s organizations in Ghana, specifically those that do interventionist work with grass roots women, and has compiled an extensive dossier of willing organizations. A program was then devised that would ensure the students had at least one semester of background work in Africa supplemented by an intense reading independent study seminar. The seminar introduces the interns to the history and culture of Ghana, with a focus on the situation of women, to give them an understanding of the social, political, and cultural context in which they will work as international service learners there.

The Ghana ISL program has run successfully for three years with a total of nine interns participating. Please click on the video below to view the summer 2009 interns in action!

This ISL program has been made possible by the generous support of Rutgers Douglass alumna Wendy Lee.