Georgetown Non-profit Exposes Japanese Students to Foreign Affairs

The S&R Foundation, which calls the Georgetown Evermay Estate home, welcomed a select group of Japanese university students to Georgetown and Washington, D.C. where they will learn about Foreign Affairs as part of the International Security and Global Resilience Youth Program.

The program, a collaboration between the Georgetown non-profit and Professor Shotaro Yachi and his students from the University of Tokyo, Keio University and Waseda University, runs Sept. 2 through Sept. 8.

"These students will have very unique opportunities to experience new parts of the world and meet visionary leaders in foreign affairs. Our goal is that participants emerge from the program inspired to create a more collaborative future across the globe," said Dr. Maki Fukami, President of the International Institute of Global Resilience (IIGR), a part of the S&R Foundation.

The S&R Foundation, which supports individuals with excellence in the arts and sciences, has been the host of many arts programs at its Evermay Estate in East Georgetown. This new effort will focus on the science element of the foundation's mission.

IIGR is the non-profit that will host the majority of its events at the historic Halcyon House, 3400-3410 Prospect St. NW, pending Board of Zoning Adjustment approval. Just this week the Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commission lent its support to the non-profit use at the historic property.