As a part of Social Science Week, on February 8th, at 4pm in 5B.16, Kate Bateman- President of Youth Upliftment International, will speak at this year’s 2017 Social Science Week.  In 2008, at the age of 17 Kate was confronted with one of the realities of this world – impoverished disenfranchised Haitian children living in the Dominican Republic with little to no opportunity for an education and a lack of  institutionalized support. Kate will share her journey that culminated in the creation of a free school for these children living in Puerto Plata. She will address the successes and pitfalls of being a frontline worker in development work, why she sees education as the tool to ending the cycle of poverty and her experience.

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