World Bridges supports young adults in gaining the experience, knowledge, and skills required to be effective, globally-minded leaders in multicultural and international environments. Through unique service-learning and alliance-building programs, participants gain a deeper understanding of their individual connections to the global community and of our country’s role in global affairs.
Our Programs have 3 goals:
- to prepare and mentor young adults to engage in the world by participating in international internships and volunteer experiences in Africa, Asia, Europe, or Latin America. Trainings are based in popular education and include local service-learning internships.
- to offer different world perspectives to young people who cannot travel abroad by hosting young volunteers and organizers from our partner countries to intern or volunteer alongside our participants and alumni and work with local collaborating organizations. They focus on building multicultural alliances, collaborating on environmental projects, and finding solutions to common problems.
- to engage our participants, alumni, visiting international partners, and the broader community in dialogues to explore the role of people of color in international movement-building and find sustainable solutions locally with a global vision.