Global Connect
Global Connect 2025 Cohort at Wilder Institute, Calgary Zoo
ACGC has been running youth experiential learning programs since 2010, previously called the ‘Change Your World Youth Leadership Program, where youth travelled internationally to visit international development projects run collaboratively by ACGC’s partner organizations. Beginning in 2022, with limits on international travel, we started taking a new approach!
With the launch of Global Connect in 2022, Albertan youth began exploring international cooperation through themes of sustainability, gender equality, and humanitarian action with Alberta-based individuals and organizations working on local and global development projects. Watch the videos below to learn from the youth and hear their stories from this program.
Past Programs
- 2010: Ethiopia with Canadian Humanitarian
- 2012: Peru with Sombrilla International Development Society
- 2013: Nicaragua with Change for Children Association
- 2015: South Africa with Keiskamma Canada Foundation
- 2017: Uganda with Mennonite Central Committee Alberta
- 2022: Global Connect 2022 in Alberta
- 2023: Global Connect 2023 in Alberta
- 2025: Global Connect 2025 in Alberta
Global Connect 2025 Video’s
In May 2025, 11 youth travelled with us across Alberta to learn about various local and global development efforts being undertaken by individuals and organizations within the province. At the end of the program, they shared their learnings and the initiatives that most impacted them. Hear their stories in this video!
Meet the 2025 Global Connect Youth who joined ACGC in May to travel across Alberta and learn about international development, humanitarian aid, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals!
Global Connect 2023 Video’s
Global Connect 2022 Video
See videos from past years here.
Past Global Connect Site Visits:
- Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA)
- Alinea International
- Billie Fortier, Lawyer, MLT Aikins LLP, Calgary
- Biosphere Institute
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank
- Canadian Volunteers United in Action Society – Associations des Volontaires unis dans l’action au Canada (CANAVUA)
- CAUSE Canada
- The Colombian Coffee Bar & Roastery
- Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan (CW4W)
- Centre for Affordable Water Technology (CAWST)
- Professor Dwayne Donald, Curriculum studies and Indigenous wisdom traditions, University of Alberta
- Dignity Network
- Earth Group
- End FGM
- Engineers Without Borders
- Expand Hope
- Islamic Family and Social Services Association (IFSSA)
- Islamic Relief
- Journey 2050 (Nutrien and Calgary Stampede)
- Mennonite Central Committee
- Operation Eyesight
- Painted Warriors
- Samaritan’s Purse
- School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
- Sihle-Sizwe Vineyard Foundation
- Sombrilla
- Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre (URDC), MacEwan University
in partnership with Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv - Villages Calgary
- Water Movement
- Wilder Institute, Calgary Zoo
About ACGC
The Alberta Council for Global Cooperation (ACGC) is a coalition organization with over 40 members focused on sustainable development and global citizenship. We aim to mobilize Albertans (like you!) to become more active global citizens engaged in sustainable development and gender equality, especially through increasing awareness, sharing knowledge, and strengthening connections to mobilize for global issues.
Our values include respect, inclusiveness, equality, empowerment, human rights, collaboration, accountability, transparency, sustainability, and mutual learning.
