Our Initiatives

Community-Building Intercultural Exchange Program

The Community-Building Intercultural Exchange Program is a free, virtual exchange program for youth ages 14-18 across the world to engage in Languages Courses, Workshops on Global Issues and Civic Leadership, Professional Development Workshops and 1-on-1 Conversations with International Peers.

During this 5-week program, participants are immersed in the languages, histories, and practices of various international cultures through direct peer-to-peer dialogue while also building civic leadership and professional skills. 

At the end of the program, participants will have built a strong foundation of lifelong cross-cultural empathy, friendship, and collaboration. They will also have developed a proposal for and be prepared to lead a globally relevant service project in your local community.

Culture Coffee Chats

The Culture Coffee Chats is a program that matches students from the globe to have discussions about their cultural perspectives, history, traditions and values. The students will be guided with different activities and conversations. At the end of the month, the students will have a project to complete to show their understanding of cultural understanding. 

In this program, students from the ages of 14- 18 can participate virtually. It is conducted on a bi-monthly basis and each meeting will have a different cultural theme. The meetings are conducted on platforms that students are comfortable with. 

The students will engage in at least one call with their culture partner. These calls will help the students gather information for their culminating project. For the culminating project, students have to highlight their culture partner’s culture or country. They can display the project using any medium (e.g. slideshow, one-pager, dish or craft). They will submit their project via Google form.

Culture Discovery Camp

During the winter break, kids from 1st-5th grader who dream of traveling the world and becoming a polyglot can TWIU for a completely free, virtual culture camp. 

Students will learn about 5 cultures from across the world (1 culture per day): each culture will be introduced with an interactive presentation encompassing the culture’s geography, food, language, and more. 

Learning for each culture will also involve hands-on activity. Indeed, the cultural immersion activity will include an immersive, hands-on activity such as cooking recipes from the culture, creating holiday cards in the culture’s language, and making arts and crafts related to the culture.

Throughout the camp, we will provide optional asynchronous resources and follow-up activities, such as additional cultural recipes and resources about specific cultural issues.

Writing Competition

Because The World in Us believes that with every story we share, we are bridging a gap, crossing cultures, and changing the world, every year The World In Us holds a writing competition. 

During a month each participant will write about a theme for example “What does culture mean in today’s world?” or “What is the most challenging struggle in your community? Is there something you can do about it?”

The winning ones will be shared with our international community!

Learn more about our programs in this news feature from Little Mentors