Cal Poly's Peru Study Program is partnered with ProWorld Service Corps, who will arrange full room and board in homestays, classroom facilities for Cal Poly and Spanish courses, all onsite domestic transportation during program, supportive funding and organization of development projects, Spanish language instruction, as well as, cultural and adventure activities while in Cuzco.
Pro World Sevice Corps:
- Stated mission “is to promote social and economic development, empower communities, and cultivate educated compassionate global citizens.”
- ProWorld pursues these goals through “sustainable, collaborative, and effective developmental projects within each host community through university partnership and individual student programs”
- ProWorld has infused over $1.4 million into host communities.
- Hosted hundreds of university students, including larger groups from University of Pittsburgh, Jacksonville University, Western Washington University, and Rocky Mountain College
- Founded in 1998, with facilities established in Belize, Mexico, and Peru
- ProWorld in Peru is called Pro Peru
- Facilities in Cuzco, and in nearby Urubamba, an agricultural
region in the Sacred Valley of the Incas
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