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Jasmine Bowden spent July 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa, as a participant in UT’s competitive International Civic Engagement program

Jasmine Bowden spent July 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa, as a participant in UT’s competitive International Civic Engagement program. In this service-learning project, she worked in a black township on issues of human rights, education, and healthcare in post-apartheid South Africa. This included creating a vegetable garden for Nomonde Pre-school in the Langa township, speaking to students at local schools, and conducting field research on lives of community residents—research which the program hopes to publish in order to spread social awareness about issues of social justice, poverty, and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. In addition to other benefits of this project, Jasmine earned UT course credit in Foreign Studies.