Since fall 2005, 60 University of Georgia students have participated in the Georgia African Immigrant/Refugee Project, a service-learning project with African refugee youth in DeKalb County, Georgia. So far, the students have helped more than 250 young refugees. The students spend three hours per week throughout the semester of their participation working at an after-school center run by Refugee Family Services on Memorial Drive in Stone Mountain. There, the students help children recently arrived from Sudan, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and other African nations (and non-African nations such as Iraq and Afghanistan). They also study intercultural communication and communication patterns in acculturation. The service-learning program is a collaboration between the University of Georgia’s Department of Speech Communications and the International Center. [Learn More]