Category: Global Short Programs
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Eight students working with Anjali House in Cambodia as part of Project Everest are now at the half way mark of their project and are working hard. Below is an update from Patrick Boyle about the experience so far; PROJECT EVEREST 15/07/15 – THE HALFWAY MARK Fifteen days ago we arrived in Siem Reap. Ten…
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Today 17 UTS Construction Management students are arriving in the Maldives to spend a week supporting a number of NGO’s on the island of Komandoo organised by Volunteer Maldives. The students will be working on three construction projects supported by UTS; QUAY SHELTER – In this challenging environment of 99% sea and intensive heat where…
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Five UTS Students are currently in Vanuatu volunteering with VOICE Australia. The team will be spending four weeks living and working in a remote rural community to work on a community identified project. The UTS students will work alongside a group of Ni-Vanuatu youth who are on a leadership program which provides training, support and…
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On 28th June a group of 8 UTS students arrived in Cambodia where they will spend the next four weeks working closely with local NGO Anjali who support disadvantaged and orphaned children. The team will be helping to develop a social enterprise to help generate a sustainable source of revenue. Their goal is to help…
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August 2014. If you’d asked me then, about where Uganda is, i’d probably have to say somewhere in Africa with no perceptions as to where it would be, look like or what way of life it’s people lived. Fast forward only 4 weeks and I was on a plane, away for a week and half…
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Check out Ellen’s video from their Global Short Program in India:
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Eleven Sport and Exercise Science students and one lecturer had an incredible three weeks in the Maldives teaching a range of sports and running health clinics. Below is an excerpt from Josh Dipple on his trip of a lifetime in the Maldives; “With our trip underway, the 11 representatives from UTS were in full swing…
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The first Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) global studio is underway in Delhi, India. Studying at an MBA college the students are exploring social entrepreneurship as an emerging and dynamic field through a series of lectures, NGO visits and cultural visits. Below is an update from Course Director Bem Le Hunte who is…
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Nathan Renwick was the lucky lecturer tasked with the responsibility of accompanying a group of UTS Sport and Exercise Science students on a three week project in the Maldives. Here he reflects on the first two weeks of the program; “It’s hard to believe we have been in this beautiful country for just over 2…
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A group of ten UTS Sport and Exercise students accompanied by lecturer, Nathan Renwick, have just completed a three week trip to the Maldives where they taught soccer and netball clinics and ran swimming classes and sports injury workshops. A wonderful time was had by all and below is an earlier update from the trip…
