Description of the "Village"
Multicultural Village is a simulated Village which is an intense learning and practice site. The Village is a created community of youth and adults or adults only from extremely diverse cultural, geographic, ethnic and social groups who have the opportunity to engage in PEACE BUILDING by having meaningful contact.
During our Villages we partner youth with adults who are practitioners in the Peace and Conflict Resolution field so that they will live, learn, grow and experience new ways to address violence and be socially responsible. Youth are called Villagers and adults are called Village Elders to model a traditional Village setting where adults and youth experience mutual respect, cooperation, trust and positive interaction across multiple divides. We provide the opportunities where youth can discover that their strengths and courage go beyond national, cultural or global patterns and habits. The Village is a place where youth can take a chance to stretch their minds while making lifelong friends across racial and cultural divides, learn vital life skills, create a global impact and have tons of fun.
We also provide similar Villages for adult groups who want to experience new ways to address violence, resolve conflicts and learn to be socially responsible and culturally competent national and global citizens.
Multicultural Village is a small non profit entity with a large global reach. We provide both residential (Camps/Villages) and non residential (Experiential workshops, Retreats and On-site programs) for Communities, Organization or Groups experiencing strife. Our operation is in Natick, Massachusetts but we also function in Trinidad, Jamaica, other West Indian countries and have partners in Central America(Costa Rica, Guatemala), Africa (Benin, Ghana,Liberia, Kenya) India and the Middle East.
