Mission Statement: 
By engaging teenagers 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.
 
The Program:
The Pangaea Project is a nine-month leadership development program that empowers low-income high school students to become local community leaders with global perspectives.  The program is designed around local and international service-learning, community leadership, social action, human rights, team-building, and global awareness.  Each year, a specific social justice issue such as Housing and Homelessness, Environmental Justice or Labor Rights and Fair Trade is selected to serve as the theme, providing the framework to make local and global connections.  The goal is to inspire participants to recognize their own capacity to be agents of change by exposing them to inspiring local and international grassroots community leaders.  Students meet with and work alongside these empowered change-makers, people who have overcome adversity in their own lives and devoted themselves to organizing others to join them in working on solutions to challenging issues that their communities face.

Our Philosophy:
The founders of The Pangaea Project chose the name Pangaea to inspire an image of a reunited world, believing in the innate capacity of all youth, regardless of socio-economic status, to be contributing members of both their own communities and the broader world. By engaging in activities that have a positive impact on communities, low-income teenagers will feel awakened, valued, and hopeful, resulting in compassionate, empowered, and globally competent leaders.
 
Pangaea is the name of the original Supercontinent 200,000,000 years ago when all of the continents were connected, and the earth was one.