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The ProWorld Service Corps offers profound 2 to 48 week cultural, service, and academic experiences in Peru, Belize, Mexico, Thailand, India, Brazil and Ghana. Since our founding in 1998, we have focused on developing relationships with communities throughout Latin America, Asia and Africa; building trust and understanding between ourselves and our hosts. Ensured of this strong foundation, our first program began in May of 2000. Since then, hundreds of students and volunteers have joined our programs to perform service projects, internships, and semester programs throughout Peru, Belize, Mexico, Brazil, Ghana, Thailand and India. While our projects often have modest beginnings, they are remarkably successful, thorough, and perhaps most importantly, all are chosen based on communities' assessments of their own needs. In the spirit of collaboration and mutual learning, we will continue to unite our volunteers our host communities. We believe there is much we can learn from each other and much we can accomplish together.

Oaxacan Graffiti

Mexico Oaxaca, Mexico  |  Jan 12, 2009
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 NYU Students Literally “Paint the Town” After Workshop with Legendary Local Oaxacan Graffiti Artist 

The streets of Oaxaca serve as unofficial curators to revolutionary graffiti that extols Mexico’s indigenous liberators, demands basic human rights and creates a streaming dialogue in the streets to help foster solidarity among the people. Far from delinquent, these open air frescoes inspire, incite, and foment action in a city that has often felt its first amendment rights repressed by a string of regimes that have dominated the “democratic” practice since the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917.

On their recent trip to Oaxaca, the NYU students were lucky enough to attend a graffiti workshop with local legend “Guillermo,” whose politically and humanely motivated messages heightened his respect in the artistic community during the Oaxaca teachers’ strike of 2006. Teaching his practiced stencil design technique, Guillermo gave the students the tools and skills to broadcast their deep held beliefs and passions with nothing more than some plastic sheets, a sharp knife and some spray paint.

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