* Personal and educational interaction with communities of folk in local schools, churches and hospitals, immigration centers, women's cooperatives, and AIDS support organizations, homes for orphans and cultural centers of East Africa.

* Themes include geography and history, racism, African Christianity and inculturation and ministry and social justice practices, HIV/AIDS and its effects on community life in East Africa, empowerment of disadvantaged groups and communities.

* Catholic University of Eastern Africa's Center for Social Justice and Ethics will be our academic base with immersions in urban Nairobi and in rural Naivasha.

* There will also be an opportunity for experience with African wildlife culture as well as recreation and reflection at Lake Nakuru National Park.

 The Superior General of the Jesuits Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, SJ recently urged a re-creating of Jesuit higher education stating that our global context requires depth of thought and imagination in face of a "spreading superficiality." In response to this challenge Jesuit Dean Brackley (recently deceased) of the Jesuit University of Central America wrote about US student Immersion courses saying if we let the life-and-death issues move students we will counteract a "globalizing superficiality." Cognitive clouds disperse; students see more clearly what is important in life and what is right and wrong, true and false. They return to the US with powerful questions, which can focus their future study with the biggest question, “If this is how the world is, how do I want to spend my life? Engaging the “poor with spirit” points the way forward in confusing time, broadening our horizons, eroding biases, filling in blind spots.

Read the blogs and see pictures from previous trips: 

     Jerome Kuthy at http://www.thoughts.com/ipskenya