The Heritage Volunteer Program 3 weeks in Lebanon: June 25 - July 16, 2012 Organized by the Learning to CARE Institute For youth (18-30) of Lebanese heritage from all over the world Discover, explore, learn, tour, volunteer and make new friends! Participants will learn about Lebanese culture and history, gain a better understanding of the Lebanese migration experience, see many different areas of
the country, and make their own contribution to Lebanese society. The group will stay in three different base camps for a week each -in the mountains, the Bekaa valley, and Beirut- from which they will go out to volunteer, tour, and interact with the different people of Lebanon. An important feature of the program will be the opportunity of participants to get to know other youth of Lebanese heritage from many different countries as well as youth from different parts of Lebanon itself. The director of the Learning to CARE Institute and coordinator of this program, Dr. Patricia Nabti, is a cultural anthropologist with a focus on the Arab World who has taught at both Stanford University and the American University of Beirut, and has done important research on Lebanese migration worldwide. She has become a world-class specialist on volunteerism, and is currently the regional representative to the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) for the Arab nations.
