2011 Education Programs

EcoVillage Design Education (EDE) for UCLA 2011

UCLA USIE accepts ERI interns EDE Seminar for Spring 2011

Following up from the Summer Program, UCLA Students Anne Flaherty and Antoinette Brou have been accepted into the UCLA Undergraduate Student Initiated Education (USIE) program.  Working alongside with ERI, Anne and Antoninette have created a ten week program and curriculum that is being taught by them during the 2011 UCLA Spring semester and will provide an exciting opportunity to introduce Ecovillage concepts to others as well as share their personal experiences from Senegal.  They have created a blog that gives you further details of the richness of this course they are conducting. 

Nio Far Blog

Alongside the seminar, we are proposing a forum on this topic inviting NGOs and agencies to participate in a discussion about localized development. This conference will be held in the fall 2011 for the students and open to the public provided we get funding.

We are all very excited with our progress as we continue to build stronger relationships with our academic partners and bring to the global development studies a positive model for sustainable development.

Senegal Travel Study Program - Summer 2010 Report

UCLA African Studies: Sustainable Community Development

This summer, 19 students from the USA completed our UCLA Travel Study Program for the African Studies Center and the Institute of the Environment.  The program was conducted by Earth Rights Eco-Village Institute (EREV) based in Yoff. It was an eight-week research and training program focused on sustainable community development in Senegal, West Africa.

The international college students were teamed up with Senegalese college students in an intensive, practical and theoretical journey into African development.  Before leaving, some of the UCLA students organized a donation drive to bring needed goods to the local communities with whom they were to meet during their stay.

For 2012, the program will be enhanced and more dynamic as the Senegalese center will now have Ousmane Pame as our new Academic Program Director.  Together with EREV, our office will be putting together a Spring campaign fundraising drive to help financially support the Senegalese students to participate in the next summer educational program.

To learn more about our center in Senegal, please visit our EREV website  or contact the UCLA International Office for Education (IOE) department for further information about registering for 2012!