Martha Adler leads GIEU group to Mexico

Martha Adler, SOE associate professor, and Monica Porter, Director of the Office of International Affairs at UM-Dearborn, recently arrived in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with a group of University of Michigan students as part of the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program. A video of the arrival of Adler and the GIEU group taken during their first week is available on youtube.

This study group, “Summer Literacy Program: Children of the Dump,” is a three-week summer literacy program serving high-poverty youth. The program both addresses the needs of children living in dire poverty in Mexico and provides university students with a culturally immersive educative experience. The literacy program is sponsored by The Children of the Dump, a community organization that was founded in 1998. Through private donations, the organization feeds more than 2,300 children daily, operates nine day care centers and an after-school program for grades 3 through 6. The goal of the Children of the Dump is to ensure education through grade nine and to educate the children of Puerto Vallarta in the skills necessary to rise above poverty.

Please join me is wishing them viaje seguro!