Youth on the Move

The team responsible for the Youth on the Move expedition will explore all aspects of travel and transportation within Rwanda among Rwandan youth. Stark contrasts between the transport needs, desires, and experiences of Rwandan and American youth will be an explicit theme, inviting adopting schools to follow up with their students on the U.S. side. Rwandan youth travel practices will be fully explored and documented, by purpose (visiting, shopping, going to and from school) and by method of conveyance (foot, donkey cart, bush taxi, bus, bicycle, etc.). Connections will be ventured for learning expedition involvement of teachers in social studies(transportation cost, efficiency, fuel sources), science (the physics and the conservation costs and benefits of petroleum-based and alternative transportation), mathematics (measuring transport efficiency), art (the design, message, and aesthetics of cars, buses, taxis, footwear, and the like), and various other subjects. (In all cases, full elaboration of the expedition in allied subjects – i.e., those beyond social studies, such as music, art, math, science, and physical education – will await post-GPA work in the U.S. with teachers in those subject areas, but our teams will have been trained to gather materials that can be used outside of social studies.)