Learning Life is pleased to release the results of our international food culture and nutrition project engaging families in the United States, El Salvador and Senegal. The project, part of our flagship program, the Citizen Diplomacy Initiative (CDI), ran from January to May 2019, and yielded significant improvements in participants’ knowledge of nutrition and food culture. The project also increased participants’ warmth toward ...
READ MOREToday, Learning Life held its second mentor-mentee potluck bringing together mentors, mentees and their parents in Washington, DC. The event follows on a successful first mentor-mentee potluck held in December 2018 to nurture community among our mentors, mentees and their families, and to welcome new mentors and families to our mentoring program. All of our potlucks feature mostly foreign foods ...
READ MOREMentoring can change lives. Learning Life’s mentoring program is different from a typical mentoring program in two ways. First, we mentor Learning Life’s kids wherever their families live in the world. Second, our mentors, all based in the United States, focus on opening our kids to the world through conversation, discussing videos, articles, photos or other content, and in Washington ...
READ MORELearning Life is happy to report that we completed our food culture project today! Launched in January 2018, the project engaged fifteen lower-income families in Washington DC, USA, San Salvador, El Salvador, and Dakar, Senegal in learning from each other and our project curriculum about food culture and nutrition. The food project follows on Learning Life’s first international project, completed ...
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