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500 young students from around the world came together to Colombia to work with the Education Department of Bogota, reaching out to more than 80,000 children. The project helped build social capital in the city and exemplified the possibilities of collaboration between youth, civil and private institutions for a better society.

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Save Today, Safe Tomorrow is a project run in Rwanda. Through organised activities in Rwanda with the help of international volunteers, over 50,000 young people and children were reached out to. They were given financial education and ensured inclusion by promoting the culture of savings.

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459 students from Canada took the brave step of teaching English in Mexico, Colombia, India and Brazil. Not only have they succeeded in impacting communities across the world, but have gone on to develop global competencies. Imagine if Indians could give the world this way and you are one of them?

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In 2013, Dhruv Gupta, a student from Delhi signed up for the Global Citizen program for the project to teach disabled children at a rehabilitation centre in Izmir, Turkey. In his account, he expresses how this opportunity allowed himself explore not just 10 world cultures, Turkey but a part of himself. 6 weeks thoroughly impacted Dhruv to think, feel and be more.

Today, Dhruv is a teaching fellow with Teach For India and has produced an average growth of 1.5 grade levels in a class of 61 students across all subjects including English, Math and Science in less than 10 months at a government school in Delhi.

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Kiran Deep, a student of Marine Engineering, Kolkata left to Semarang, Indonesia in 2013.

While working on a culture education project, Kiran Deep was sensitised about inaccessibility to the most basic education there. With the project management and other soft skills he gained there, he is now able to organise and deliver conferences for groups of young people in India.

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Sudakshina Sridharan, an Electrical & Electronics Engineering students from Anna University, Chennai went to Thailand to teach children in a local school.

At the end of her 6 weeks journey there, she had not only been accustomed to the everyday Thai life but become a compassionate teacher that could closely understand the kind of children she was teaching, how beautifully different they were and the kind of person she was becoming in the process.

Sudakshina, an NRI student in India herself has been to several other countries on family holiday trips but is sure that nothing has left a lasting mark on her like the Global Citizen Program.

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In 2012, Vighnesh Shukla from KIIT University, Bhubaneswar embarked on his Global Citizen journey to work in an NGO handling several orphanages in St. Petersburg, Russia. As part of the project, Vighnesh had to play the role of a marketer for a Christmas fundraising activity.

Following his experience which helped him to make a difference, Vighnesh was able to apply his international project management experience in helping the placement department of his University to organise events.

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