+ Listen. Think. Act.

Jamie Van Leeuwen, PhDFounder, Executive

Director

John Pirkopf, MSWDirector

Global Livingston Institute

Creating Innovative Solutions to Poverty

“Flower” When looking through the drawings done by the children the one thing that stood out was the way they drew flowers. The stem, leaf, and root of this mark are copied directly from one of the drawings and represents the way each child drew these parts of the flower. The petals of the flower make the African symbol for wisdom and creativity. The flower is also representative of growth.

April 17, 2014

+Mission

Think. Listen. Act.

Through immersive travel, the Global Livingston Institute brings students and community leaders together to experience East Africa to incubate innovative solutions to poverty by thinking, listening and then, acting…when necessary.

+Incubating New Perspectives on Poverty with a Research Lens

“Like most people who go overseas to do development work, I did so expecting to find out what it’s like to be poor… that’s not what happens. Instead you learn what it’s like to be rich, to be fabulously, incomprehensibly bloated with wealth.”

--Bill Tidwell, The Ponds of Kalambayi

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+Vision

Each year, through research and immersion experiences, the GLI focuses on providing opportunities to experience East Africa via the lens of the people who live and work in Uganda and Rwanda.

The GLI is building strategic and innovative partnerships in four communities in the region: Kampala, Uganda Lira, Uganda (Jungle Clinic) Lake Bunyoni, Uganda (Entusi Retreat Center) Musanze (Sonrise School)

+About the Global Livingston Institute

GLI serves as an incubator of ideas involving change makers from the United States and East Africa focused on health, education & public management. Founded in 2009, the GLI will eventually be based in the Lake Bunyoni Region of Southern Uganda.

The institute serves as a research and learning center where students, visiting professors, community leaders and other professionals convene to conduct research, to exchange ideas and to work with other nongovernment organizations to facilitate more strategic and collaborative partnerships between the United States and East Africa.

+GLI Entusi Retreat Center

Modeled after the Bellagio Center developed by the Rockefeller Foundation, the concept is to provide a creative and innovative working space for students and community leaders from all around the world to convene to address complex social issues.Entusi is designed to serve as an incubator for learning where students, community leaders and local partners will work together to reinvest in the Lake Bunyonyi community through education, health, public management and arts and culture.

+Summer Immersion Trip Itinerary

Day 1Depart for Uganda Day 2Entebbe – Kampala• Accommodations: Come Let’s

Dance

Day 3Kampala-Jinja• Day in Jinga at leisure (Optional

Whitewater Rafting – $125)

Day 4Kampala• Introduction to Come Let’s Dance• Kampala and Katanga Slums • Relief Work (medical

clinic/outreach)• Thread of Life Sewing Clinic for

Vision Casting, Site of Global Institute 

Day 5Kampala• Community Development,

Restoration Vision• Research Project Day Two• Come Let’s Dance Farm Visit• Kidz House• Dinner: Emma’s House (Owner of

Taxi Microbusiness)

Day 6Kampala• Research Project Day Three• Melago Hospital Outreach and Tour

+Summer Immersion Trip Itinerary

Day 7Kampala• Research Project Day Four• Slum Soccer and Final Visit to Kidz

House

Day 8Kampala-Lira• Transfer to Lira (Eight Hour Road

Trip)• Sister Jovita

Day 9Lira• Child Soldier Rehabilitation Center• Optional Research Project: Needs

Assessment at IDP Camp• Optional Community Work with

Sister Jovita• Lira Hotel Disco Night

Day 10Lira – Murchison Falls• Child Soldier Rehabilitation Center• IDP “Refugee” Camp Visit• Transfer to Murchison Falls• Evening Game Drive

Day 11Murchison Falls-Fort Portal• Long, long day of Travel! Bad

roads, great scenery!

Day 12Fort Portal - Bunyonyi • Bus Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi (9

hours with stops)

+Summer Immersion Trip Itinerary

Day 13Bunyonyi • Optional visits to local school,

village and health clinics in the area• Free time to enjoy Lake Bunyonyi • Pig Roast and Local Village Dancers

Day 14Bunyonyi • Gorilla trekking  

Day 15Bunyonyi --> Musanze • Breakfast: Overland Resort• Community Development Tour• Sonrise AcademyDinner: Bishop of Rwanda

Day 16

• Musanze --> Kigali• Breakfast: Ishema Hotel• Overview of Kigali• Genocide Museum• Nyamata (Genocide Memorial)• Final Group Dinner• Accommodations: Hotel Mille

Collines (Hotel Rwanda)

Day 17Kigali – United States• Breakfast at Mille Collines Hotel• Markets and Trinket Shopping

Transfer to United States (Arrive Next day)

Entusi Retreat Center

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+Looking Ahead to 2014 and Beyond

Further develop Interactive Course Curriculum between the GLI and the University of Colorado School of Public Affairs.

Engage 45 students and community leaders annually in research opportunities and immersion experiences in East Africa.

Conduct three medical outreach sessions in Kampala’s Katanga Slums serving 600 women and children.

Place five GLI interns in Uganda and Rwanda to engage in research development for the Global Institute.

Deliver 50 bags of supplies for use at Come Let’s Dance and other core project sites.

Continued…

+Looking Ahead to 2014 and Beyond Continued….

Publish a research paper from data collected in Katanga Slums. (In partnership with University of Colorado School of Public Affairs.)

Develop plans for a 12-bed medical ward for Sister Jovita’s Jungle Clinic in Lira.

Conduct needs assessment of nonprofit community in Kabale Region of Southern Uganda.

Develop new ways to utilize the Entusi Retreat Center. Facilitate 6 retreats.

STEM classroom partnerships

Develop three-year strategic plan and sustainable budget.

Establish 501c3 nonprofit status.

+Africa Will Change You…

Questions? Comments? Complaints? Concerns?

www.GlobalLivingston.org

Executive Director: Jamie Van Leeuwen, PhD (jamie@globallivingston.org; 720.272.4886)

Director: John Pirkopf, MSW (john@globallivingston.org; 303.219.0044)

“Don't just do something! Stand there!”– John Paul Leaderach, The Moral Imagination