Month: December 2019

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Connecting Canada’s colleges and universities to the #GlobalGoals

In recent years, SOS has helped build strategic partnerships with Carleton University, the University of Toronto, and Durham College to plan customized experiential learning trips with our local partners in Latin America. This collaboration is part of a growing wave of partnerships between SOS and post-secondary institutions to help connect students to the Sustainable Development …

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Addressing Education Challenges in Rural Guatemala

The Mayan village of Las Arrugas, Guatemala, is one of 100 communities that SOS has been working with throughout Latin America to support Sustainable Development Goal #4: Quality Education, since 2008. The Poqomchi indigenous population that forms the majority of Las Arrugas’ population has suffered from many traumatic and devastating effects from the Guatemalan Civil …

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