Alterra commits to offer creative experiential learning and career development opportunities in the Americas and South Africa for a range of US clients – primarily students, educators, and members of professional associations.

Our standard programs, with durations ranging from 10 to 17 days, feature interactive in-country dialogues with local students and professionals; working visits to government, community, and commercial institutions; and carefully-designed community service activities.

We seek to empower students and professionals - from the US and locally - to reach full potential. Indeed each interaction is designed to be the leading edge of a sustaining, long-term relationship between the visitors and their local hosts.

 

Historically, our core competency has been a thorough knowledge of South Africa, its people and its institutions.

Since June 1995, we have designed an array of innovative programs in the region, with a special focus on education.

We possess a full range of contacts throughout South African civil society – in national & provincial government, in educational institutions at all levels, in business & commerce, at key NGOs, and in arts & music organizations.

We are connected with local partner institutions whose own missions and goals we actively support – and whose missions and goals we encourage our school and professional association clients to support.

We design each initial visit so that clients may be inspired to become involved with our literacy, health, life skills, and poverty reduction partners in a sustaining manner.

This, we believe, creates enduring value, for the client as for the South African host institution.

We invite you to view portfolios of our recent and forthcoming work in South Africa :

In July 2002, we initiated a separate regional focus. We now also work, on a carefully-selected basis, with a range of host communities in several countries, including Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic. We also partner with Native American communities in Arizona and Quebec province, Canada.

In Brazil , for instance, we have recently completed successful programs for students from the American School in London (ASL) and for US independent school educators whose special interest is to promote racial, gender, and other forms of diversity.

Alterra will return to the Americas with students in June 2005 – this time to Mexico , to perform community service in partnership with local peers in Oaxaca state.

We invite you to view portfolios of our recent and forthcoming work in the Americas: