Welcome to The Pangaea Project

Our Mission

By engaging youth from underserved neighborhoods in local and international service-learning projects, The Pangaea Project promotes the development of leadership skills, increases global awareness, and fosters a commitment to work towards social change, profoundly transforming both the participants and their communities.

What We Do

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with staff in Ecuador and Thailand, The Pangaea Project offers a unique model of education that provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for low-income and high-risk youth to learn about local and global issues related to social justice and social change. The Pangaea Project builds leadership skills and attributes with an emphasis on the importance of global perspective through the lenses of social justice and social change.

Specifically, the leadership skills The Pangaea Project works with youth to cultivate include the ability to speak publicly; effective communication and listening; the capacity to make and keep commitments; the ability to collaborate and work as a member of a team; and concrete knowledge about important local and global issues. The Pangaea Project also fosters leadership attributes including self-confidence, self-worth, and self-efficacy.

Each Pangaea Project student exits our program empowered by their own changemaking impacts, and an invigorated sense of possibility.

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