ABL Programs

Project Africa

For the first time ever at ABL, twenty students will be recruited from four countries in Africa: Liberia, Ghana, Zambia, and Somalia. They will have the unique opportunity to participate in ABL’s 2006 Summer Business Institute (SBI) on four college campuses: CSUDH, CSUF, CSULA, and USC.

Visiting students from Africa, in collaboration with the Harvard Women’s Leadership Board of the Kennedy School of Government for Somalia and Zambia, will have the opportunity to learn about capitalism and the American free enterprise system, and will experience the love and nurturing of American families who will host them for 8 weeks. This project will benefit and broaden the horizon of not only participating international students, but also that of local participants. American and US resident SBI students will have the opportunity to learn from the dialogues and experiences of the African students and will gain insight, cultural understanding, inspiration, and motivation from them and vise versa. At the conclusion of the program, after graduating from SBI, the African students, the future leaders of their respective countries will return home empowered and armed with an expanded outlook and new skills which will enable them to help uplift themselves, their families, communities, and countries.

Qualified underserved students age 17-18 living in Liberia, Ghana, Somalia, and Zambia will be selected through collaborations with local governmental and non-governmental organizations. Students will attend the 2006 Summer Business Institute from June 24 until August 20, 2006. Students are to return back to their countries after the program ends on August 20, 2006.

Students will be hosted throughout Southern California at four universities: California State University, Dominguez Hills; California State University, Fullerton; California State University, Los Angeles; and the University of Southern California.