Preparing students for global citizenship!

Students Shoulder to Shoulder's (SStS) mission is to inspire high school students to engage in responsible global citizenship through on-line study, full immersion service programs, and public presentation.

Yet, when you learn of SStS's philosophical underpinnings, its educational programming, and its economic structure, you will appreciate that its purpose is profoundly more than providing youth with an opportunity to do community service in other cultures, as noble as that might be.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE EACH YEAR!

Students Shoulder to Shoulder BELIEVES THAT CITIZENSHIP BEGINS BY RESPONDING TO THOSE WHO ASK FOR ASSISTANCE.

Imagine the learning that occurs for an SStS student when rebuilding a home in NOLA's 9th Ward, working side-by-side with the owner of that home - years after Katrina! Imagine, too, having an audience with the founder of a series of children's homes in Kenya: the chance to learn how education can lift children orphaned by AIDS to take ownership of their own nation's development toward economic independence. Issues of housing, education, health, and fresh water are inextricably intertwined with development, stability, and independence.

SStS programs explore these issues through the lenses of politics, economics, culture, ethics, and geography. What variables are particular to the area, region, or nation? What variables are universal? These are the types of inquiries that shape an SStS experience.