On March 14, 2009, 29 students from all over British Columbia embarked on an 18 day humanitarian journey to Senegal, Africa.
The project, called Yaakaar 2009 (yaakaar means hope in the Senegalese Wolof language) represented the final component of a Global Perspective course .
This course enabled the students to explore the concept of “development”, while expanding their knowledge of other countries and grappling with global issues and the problems of development inequaties. These 29 neo-humanitarians were high school students from School District #93 (Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique).