Culture Boxes are available free-of-charge for teachers to use in the classroom for a two-week time period to give their students a hands-on learning experience of another culture. Teachers are requested to pick up and return the boxes to Meridian’s Educational Outreach Office located at the south entrance to Meridian House (1623 Belmont St. NW) Examples of materials in the boxes are:

• coins
• books
• dolls
• photos
• magazines
• postcards
• maps
• fact sheet
• stamps
• culture grams
• posters
• music/video/DVDs

Culture Boxes are available for the following regions or countries of the world:

AFRICA

• Eastern & Central Africa Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
• Maasai Tribe
• Ethiopia
• Morocco
• Northern Africa Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia
• Senegal
• South Africa
• Southern Africa Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
• Western Africa Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote D’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo

AMERICAS

• Argentina
• Central America Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago
• Costa Rica
• Mexico
• Panama & Colombia
• Peru & Ecuador
• South America Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

ASIA and the MIDDLE EAST

• Afghanistan
• Central Asia Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• China (2 boxes) Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet
• East/Southeast Asia Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore
• India
  India: Doll Box
  India Dress Up Box
• *Islam*
• Israel
• Japan (2 boxes)
• Korea
  Korea Clothes Box
• Lebanon & Syria
• Middle East Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates Pacific Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Micronesia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Island, Tonga, Tuvalu
• Pakistan
• Saudi Arabia
• South Asia (Indian Subcontinent) Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka
• Turkey
• The Caucasus Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
• Vietnam
• Yemen

AUSTRALIA

• Australia

EUROPE

• Baltic States Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
• Central Europe Austria, Belgium, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Netherlands
• Eastern Europe Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
• Finland
• France
• Greece
• Ireland & United Kingdom
• Romania (2 boxes)
• Russia
• Scandinavia Denmark, Norway, Sweden
• Southern Europe Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Vatican City
• Switzerland

TO RESERVE A CULTURE BOX:
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