Global Service-Learning
Program Overview

The APPLES Global Service-Learning Program offers UNC undergraduate students a unique opportunity to work with global and local immigrant communities, while uniting rigorous academic coursework with substantive volunteer service. Students travel to, study in and work with sending communities where social, economic, or political conditions are pushing residents to immigrate to North Carolina and other regions in the United States.

During the global experience, students study the language and local culture, live with a local family, and engage in service-learning in a community service agency. On returning to Carolina, students enroll in “Connections”, a 1-credit reflection seminar that compares the lives of new immigrants in North Carolina to that of their origin countries. The seminar explores concerns for health, education and social justice through selected readings, class discussion and reflection. Returning students engage in local service-learning with newly arrived immigrants. As mentors, they provide assistance with activities supporting school achievement and facilitation of bilingual fluency for middle or high school immigrant youth.

To obtain contact information for the current GSL Chair, please refer to the APPLES' Organizers directory.