SAGE is proud to partner with the following organizations who share our commitment to creating positive and sustainable change throughout the world. Our collaboration with organizations in each of the countries we visit allows us to provide unique educational experiences which focus on real issues affecting the local communities. Please contact us if you would like further information about our programs and partners.

Trees, Water & People

www.treeswaterpeople.org
Trees, Water & People is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to helping communities to protect, conserve, and manage the natural resources upon which their long-term well-being depends. TWP develops and manages continuing reforestation, watershed protection, renewable energy, appropriate technology, and environmental education programs in Latin America and the American West.

Sharon Katz & The Peace Train

www.sharonkatz.com
Sharon Katz is a South African musician who grew up during apartheid, and found that music had a way of bringing people together, regardless of race, culture or beliefs. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, she performed at all his rallies, singing about unity and a peaceful transition to democracy in South Africa. She has since created her band “The Peace Train” and has been performing worldwide to promote multi-cultural experiences and end violence.  Peace Train also works with South African children whose families have been affected by joblessness and the HIV/AIDS crisis.

Sustainable Travel International

www.sustainabletravelinternational.org
Sustainable Travel International (STI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, dedicated to providing education and outreach services that help travelers, travel providers and destinations support environmental conservation and protect cultural heritage while promoting cross-cultural understanding and economic development.

Equal Exchange

www.equalexchange.coop
Equal Exchange has created Big Change since 1986. Their founders envisioned a food system that empowers farmers and consumers, supports small farmer co-ops, and uses sustainable farming methods. They started with fairly traded coffee from Nicaragua and didn't look back. Today, they continue to find new and powerful ways to build a better food system. They partner with co-operatives of farmers who provide high-quality organic coffee, teas, chocolates and snacks from all over the world, including here in the United States. 

Mayan Hands

www.mayanhands.org
Mayan Hands is a fair trade organization that has been working with Mayan weavers since 1989. They now work with approximately 200 weavers, organized in groups of 12 to 50 women, living in eleven different communities around the western and northern highlands of Guatemala. Mayan Hands' mission is to assist these women in their quest to raise themselves out of poverty. Working with fair trade, the women can count on a modest, and just as important, a regular income that enables their families to eat better, send their children to school, improve their homes and even save a little. Selling their handwoven textiles at a fair price, the women are gaining control over their lives.

Village Earth

www.villageearth.org
Around the globe, Village Earth is allying with communities that wish to determine their own futures.  Through their empowerment approach, Village Earth works with communities as they direct their own path of change and work toward a sustainable future.  Village Earth has allied with Lakota families on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota; the Shipibo Nation in Peru's Amazon Basin; tribal communities in West Bengal, India; Mayan communities in Guatemala; and disadvantaged neighborhoods in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sustainable Schools International

www.sustainableschoolsinternational.org
Sustainable Schools International works with poor, rural and marginalized communities to sustain their schools in ways that serve their children and support community needs. SSI envisions a future in which poor, rural and marginalized communities are able to support and sustain schools for their children.  A strong educational foundation is integral to communities' ability to strengthen economic growth and social justice, improve health and wellbeing and uphold their heritage and culture.

North-South ConeXions

www.northsouthconexions.org
North-South ConeXions is a cultural exchange program between artists of the Americas to promote collaboration and to highlight similarities between our cultures. BY organizing reciprocal international tours and residencies between artists in different countries, this project encourages mutual appreciation for the other’s culture, artistic collaboration in the future, and lifelong bonds.

Peace Corps

Since 1960, nearly 200,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 139 host countries. Today's Peace Corps is more vital than ever, working in emerging and essential areas such as information technology and business development, and contributing to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Peace Corps Volunteers continue to help countless individuals who want to build a better life for themselves, their children, and their communities.

The Nature Conservancy

http://www.nature.org/

The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. They address the most pressing conservation threats at the largest scale. Today, more of our natural world is at risk than ever before. The work of The Nature Conservancy is crucial to keep vital habitats and unique species from being lost forever.

Colorado Heritage Camps, Inc.

http://www.heritagecamps.org/

The mission of Colorado Heritage Camps, Inc. is to provide educational, cultural, and family related experiences, which support the healthy development of families formed by adoption with children from diverse heritages. Through shared experiences, each Heritage Camp provides children and families with a sense of community and individual identity.

SAGE Program would like to extend a special thank you to all of our interns and volunteers. Your hard work and dedication is invaluable to the pursuit of our mission to change lives through educational travel.