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You’re traveling abroad ahhh!! Traveling internationally is a fun and exciting opportunity that not many people get to have. You may be traveling abroad through a gap year program or adventuring on your own. Regardless, you are taking on this bold and wonderful mission of traveling abroad and embracing a new world. This is an...

22 October, 2018

Are you thinking about taking a gap year? Looking for a fun and transformative experience but don’t know what to do? Don’t worry I am here to help! I have created a list of gap year ideas that can help you have the best gap year ever. You can thank me later.   Before we...

22 October, 2018

  [layerslider id=”9″] Program Launch is an intensive boot-camp designed to kick-start the Global Citizen Year. Through interactive workshops by leading entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and Global Citizen Year staff, this weeklong program inspires our Fellows to embark on their bridge year with context, passion, and purpose. We’ve collected some of our favorite quotes and photos from...

11 September, 2017

We stand proudly with over 400 fellow Social Entrepreneurs, asking the President to abandon his #MuslimBan.  Muslims are our coworkers, teachers, caregivers, neighbors, friends.  Discrimination hurts our democracy and our ability to handle the nation and the world’s biggest problems. Creativity is at its height when borders are open, ideas are free flowing and opportunity is available...

15 February, 2017

Dear Global Citizen Year family, I’m reaching out in response to the many changes we are seeing in Washington that are further dividing our country. Many are pleased and encouraged, while others feel fearful and discouraged. In the midst of it all, I feel compelled to reiterate the values that drive us and our work...

07 February, 2017

Update: January 24, 2017   The current political and societal situation in the Gambia and subsequently in Senegal is calm and peaceful.  Adama Barrow has assumed the Presidential position in the Gambia after a peaceful exchange of power with Yahya Jammeh who has exited the Gambia as planned and is now residing in Guinea.  ...

20 January, 2017