AMIDEAST: Tunis - Learn & Serve, Summer

Learn & Serve in Tunisia is a unique opportunity for students to study in the Middle East/North Africa region and engage in an intense service learning experience with Tunisian university students. During the first two weeks of the program and during the fourth week of the program, students will live with a Tunisian host family, partnered with one other AMIDEAST student. Host families will provide students with three meals per day. Throughout the program, students enrolled in Learn & Serve take two 3-credit academic courses - Tunisian Society and Culture: Locating Tunisia and either Colloquial Tunisian Arabic I, II or III. During the service portion of the program, students will spend time in both Tunis and Rimell (near Bizerte, northwest of Tunis). Students will then travel to the Rimmel/Bizerte area on two separate occasions: once to volunteer at a day-camp for disabled students and again to volunteer at an overnight camp with Acess students. The disabled students will come together at the Centre de Jeunesse in Rimmel from a variety of special schools around Tunisia. Additionally, AMIDEAST students visit major points of interest in day trips Tunis. These include the site of ancient Carthage; the village of Sidi Bou Said overlooking the Gulf of Tunis; the old city of Tunis, known simply as the Medina; the Bardo Museum, famous for its Punic objects and Roman mosaics; and the American World War II War Cemetery. Evenings are mostly free and students can spend time on their own exploring downtown Tunis, the medina, and the seaside suburbs.

Reviews prior to the summer of 2013 discuss AMIDEAST/Tunisia's previous partner, the Language Village - Nabeul.