What is the long-term impact?
Our participants return home with an enlightened perspective, an expanded worldview, and a sense of how they each can communicate what they have learned to their family, friends, community, and nation. When a tour returns, we send participants contact lists of the groups we met with, as well as additional information about other organizations or campaigns involved in issues addressed on the tour so participants can stay involved after their return. Our alumni regularly: write articles, op-eds, and letters to the editors; make presentations to their friends, families, schools, unions, churches, and community groups; produce radio shows and videos; give financial aid to grassroots groups they have met with; volunteer with organizations they have visited or new ones they discover after the trip; invite people that they met abroad to the US; and create follow-up customized tours. Similarly, it is our mission that the people we meet with in destination countries benefit from the Reality Tou
