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Before embarking on the long journey to South Africa, I had heard only positive things about the ACE program. Everyone…

On June 17, 2019 I entered the small township of Zola for the first time. I was excited, a little bit nervous…

After deciding to go to school across the country and overcoming bouts of homesickness my freshman year, I never thought…

Even though three weeks is a relatively short period of time for anyone to completely understand a foreign culture, I…

1. History is important.  In the first week of this program, much of our schedule has been centered around learning…

In our third week in Nomzamo, our group began doing construction at a daycare center in the local community. The…

When Stanford’s spring quarter ended in mid-June and I packed my bags, ready to depart on my Vietnam experience, I…

Nomzamo is a township 45 minutes outside of Cape Town, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Nomzamo originally…

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be…

It has been a little more than one week since arriving in Vietnam and it would be an understatement to…