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The Wider Horizons Project, which is now entering its twentieth year, is a project organised jointly by four Colleges of Education in Ireland:

through Middlesex Community College, Lowell, Massachusetts.

The project in is three phases:

  1. Preparatory stage (one weekend, around Easter, and one day prior to departure);
  2. Six weeks (late June - early August) working in Lowell, Ma. (25 miles north of Boston);
  3. Evaluation/reunion weekend in Ireland.

The project involves, after a period of initial training, working in multi-cultural teaching situations with educationally disadvantaged children, teenagers or adults.

For more information please visit the project website.

Some Lowell links

To find out more about Lowell check out the following links: