Feb 13
Sylvia WongEmergency, Student Workshop Annual Workshop, Emergency Response, Global Concerns Classroom
Pastoralist Gabbra women carry home their monthly supplies which they had just received at a food aid distribution in Kalacha, Kenya.
Global Concerns Classroom is proud to partner with Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs to provide high school students the exciting opportunity to work together and to examine the challenges of emergency response and to explore viable solutions.
Educators, you and your students (grades 9-12) are invited to participate in the 2012 Global Concerns Sixth Annual Student Workshop.
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Feb 10
Tilaye NigussieMaternal & Child Health, Voices from the Field Child Survival, Poem, Rwanda
Concern's Rwanda country director, Tilaye Nigussie, with a print out of his poem at the Rwanda National Nutrition Summit
I wrote this poem for the Rwanda Second National Nutrition Summit, which was held in Kigali from November 22-23, 2011. Much of the conference’s focus was on scaling up nutrition interventions to prevent irreversible physical and mental stunting during the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. It is also the focus of my poem, “One Thousand Precious Days.”
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Jan 27
Donna LintonStudent Workshop, Water Global Concerns Classroom, Global Water Crisis, Lawrence Woodmere Academy, Workshop
Students present solutions to the water crisis
“Access to water is a basic human right, yet every day, a child dies every 15 seconds from drinking unclean water. In developing countries, lack of clean water is a devastating and often deadly problem. There are many factors that cause the lack of access to water.” (from Concern Worldwide workshop materials)
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Jan 20
Elizabeth StoltzMaternal & Child Health, Student Action Food for Thought, Fundraiser, Nutrition, Plumpy'nut
Students show their support during the Walk for Plumpy'nut at Ithaca College, NY
It’s so hard to believe that five years have passed since Food for Thought’s first ever Walk for Plumpy’nut. I suppose that for our first year, Food for Thought didn’t even exist yet! We were just a small group of students thinking it would be a one-time event. However, here we are, five years and $20,000 later to fight childhood malnutrition in Ethiopia!
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Dec 30
Elizabeth StoltzHealth, Millennium Development Goals Malaria, Top Ten
GCC students set up a malaria bed net to raise awareness of malaria in their school
This month, we’ve focused on Millennium Development Goal #6: Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. As December draws to a close, GCC wanted to leave on a more upbeat note. As you’ll see with fact #10, there is reason to believe that we CAN make malaria a disease reserved for the history books. How many of these facts did you know?
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Dec 23
Elizabeth StoltzGlobal Awareness Days, HIV and AIDS Top Ten, World AIDS Day
GCC students campaign on World AIDS Day
Did you know that the term AIDS wasn’t used until 1982? When the New York Times first published an article about the spreading virus, no one could’ve guessed the enormity of the disease. For the past three decades, the virus has demanded our attention – over 60 million people have either contracted it or died from it. Below are ten facts we’ve compiled about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and AIDS, the late stage infection.
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Dec 19
Sylvia WongStudent Voices, Water Song, The Chapin School
Children at a hand-washing station in Port au Prince, Haiti. (Photo: Concern Worldwide)
High school students from The Chapin School wrote a H20 Rap in conjunction with a school play that was developed in the fall called “The Water Project”. In the play, students explore the theme of water: the role it plays in everyday lives, its symbolic meaning, and the future of water.
CLICK TO PLAY: The Water Project, H20 Rap.
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Dec 16
Sylvia WongHIV and AIDS, Student Action Austin High, World AIDS Day
Students at Austin High raise awareness of HIV and AIDS on World AIDS Day
More than a year ago, I received an email from Juhi Tariq, a Global Studies major at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Juhi was working on creating a year long community service project and wanted to start a Global Concerns club at one of the local Austin high schools. After a lot of hard work and planning, she received the Brown Scholarship at St. Edward’s and GCC was brought to Austin High School!
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Dec 10
Elizabeth StoltzGlobal Awareness Days, Student Voices Human Rights Day
Photo: Concern Worldwide, Liberia
What do human rights mean to you? What freedoms do you think are inherent to being a human? We may think of the right to access quality nutrition and education or the right to receive healthcare and voice our political beliefs. However, it’s no surprise that in many regions of the world, these human rights are grossly violated every day.
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Dec 08
Anne MwangiHIV and AIDS, Voices from the Field Kenya, World AIDS Day
Children in urban slums are often exposed to abuse and exploitation, making them particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. Photo: Elizabeth Wright, Mukuru slum, Nairobi, Kenya
It is amazing to see the potential that exists for extremely poor communities to overcome challenges on their own if they are given the opportunity and the tools. In my work promoting community development in Kenya with Concern, I have seen firsthand evidence of the dramatic results that can be achieved to reduce the impact HIV and AIDS using simple methods such as education, community mobilization, and dialogue.
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