Global Skills Opportunity - Ambassadors in Ottawa!
All photos from Ottawa are by Caleb Ficner https://calebficner.zenfolio.com/about.html Back in September, I spent a few days in Ottawa alongside 12 other Canadian students (or former students), as ambassadors to the Global Skills Opportunity (GSO) Fund. This is a pilot programme funded by the Government of Canada that funds Canadian students to travel and study or work in another country. The purpose of the funding is to make travel study more accessible to Canadians, so that they may gain transferable skills and bring them back to Canada. Myself and my classmates received this funding to travel to Uganda last summer to study politics and transitional justice, which was the trip of a lifetime. From in-classroom learning to conversing with locals, I built upon my understanding of Uganda's history and political system that I had previously come to understand in the classroom. Having this experience during my undergraduate degree h...
