GO! South Africa 2023

The mission of Global Outreach is for students to engage with, be challenged by, and further evolve Fordham’s global partnerships. Through these relationships, students make efforts to understand and wrestle with social justice, solidarity, spirituality, and their Jesuit education. We seek to nurture civically-minded leaders for a global society who work for justice and solidarity while being committed to lifelong learning and holistic transformation. As a program, GO! values an ongoing commitment to sustainable relationships, anti-racism, solidarity, environmentalism and sustainability, community engagement, global citizenship, cultural exchange, education, and multiculturalism.

In May of 2023, a team of eleven Fordham students and one Fordham faculty member will head to Pretoria, South Africa to learn about education access. There, they will be partnering with the University of Pretoria, one of South Africa's top universities, and the Jesuit Institute of South Africa, an organization that promotes an inclusive faith-based vision of personal and social transformation. Our Fordham team will participate in the organizations' frameworks with a range of activities like staff and student exchange, research collaboration, expanding on teaching and learning expertise and increasing cultural understanding and cooperation. We hope you will support our efforts to deepen our knowledge and engagement with Fordham’s mission, by promoting the moral and intellectual development that this trip fosters.