When piggy-backing SL Exchange on regular academic exchange proved to be difficult, we reviewed what we have learned from the failure and regrouped. We realised we need a more targeted strategy and took the opportunity to redesign and enrich the program. The result was a revised program to cultivate devoted and passionate students to become service-learning leaders by providing a purpose-designed platform for them to serve in NGOs in international setting and multicultural environment. This is not just an internship, this is a fellowship program with an internship and an exchange.
In 2016, we changed our strategy accordingly. We identify a small number of universities as potential partners and propose to them the setting up of a suitable program that takes advantage of the partner university’s strengthens and the needs of our students. We visited a number of these potential partners in 2017 to broach the project with them. This resulted in 3 related but different programs that were executed for the first time in the summer of 2018. Two of these programs build on our existing collaborations, with one completely new one, developed from a surprisingly successful cold call.
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