iLEAP Outbound

iLEAP Outbound is a unique travel opportunity for North Americans to visit and work in partnership with a local organization in Asia, Africa and/or Latin America. We offer a diverse range of opportunities in both rural and urban communities. iLEAP Outbound provides the structure to guide you through the process of designing a project in collaboration with the host organization that is both innovative and practical and that utilizes your skills and engages your interests. Through an integrated curriculum that gives equal weight to the pre-trip preparation, your experience abroad, and post-trip synthesis, the program is designed to be pragmatic, conceptual, and transformational. Participation in the program is for individuals, partners, small groups, and families--programs are flexible enough to connect to the needs of each.

Please note: Currently, we are not accepting applications for iLEAP Outbound. If you are interested in the program, please email us at outbound@iLEAP.org. 

"I think iLEAP's Outbound program is one of the most innovative and unique programs I've been apart of. It forges a new model for programs that involve travel and community development work, based on relationship, mutual exchange, and self-reflection. I came to iLEAP having spent a brief amount of time doing similar programs in the Dominican Republic and Mexico, and with increasing interests in development and sustainable agriculture.

Because the program is tailored to each pair of participants (Outbound participant and International Faculty) and focused on grass roots work, it allowed me to explore these interests in both a very tangible and intellectually challenging way...As I pursue a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Geography, I will continue my relationship with iLEAP and Sylvester, and employ the many lessons I learned as a outbound participant in my research, teaching, and life as an engaged global citizen, not forgetting the people of Cameroon as I comitt to my own community. Now being on the other side, it was undoubtedly a leap worth taking!"

-- Andy Davey, 2009