Trips/Exchanges
Hern runs annual major trips with teenagers – up to 25 teens camping for a month at a time in Montana, Utah, California and elsewhere. In 2002 Hern and a colleague started a Youth Exchange Program between East Vancouver and Fort Good Hope (Radeli Ko) in the Northwest Territories. The exchanges are organized explicitly around difference, with the goal of getting native and non-native kids together to travel and stay in each other’s’ homes. The central goal of this project is to move past simple tolerance and towards comprehension, hospitality and solidarity.
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