Jun 30
Sylvia WongGlobal Concerns Clubs, Student Action Club, Global Concerns Classroom, Leadership Core, St. Jean Baptiste, St. Vincent Ferrer High School, Trevor Day School, Trinity School
GCC Student Leadership Core wearing the American Eagle/Concern Help Haiti Heal t-shirts
For many years, GCC has partnered with NYC high schools to start Global Concerns clubs and to help students find creative ways to spread awareness of global issues and to take action. In 2010, the Global Concerns Student Leadership Core was piloted to bring together GCC club leaders from various high schools in NYC to connect and collaborate with one another and with Concern.
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Jun 29
Sylvia WongPoverty, Student Action Book, Concern, Writing Competition
The votes are in! The winners of Concern’s creative writing competition have been announced.
This year, the competition has truly become worldwide. We received 776 entries from 39 countries spanning five continents. Thanks to all those who took part. We had a very high standard of entries and our judges, top journalists from Ireland and the US, had an extremely difficult task in deciding the winners.
We started the competition to provide an opportunity for people to let us know, in a creative and engaging way, their thoughts and views on a wide range of development issues.
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Jun 29
Sylvia WongMillennium Development Goals, Student Action Film Festival, Millennium Development Goals, Radio
With Weber Middle School's computer teachers, Erlyn Madonia and Renee Kornfeld, at the Port Washington Public Library student film festival
For the past two years, GCC has partnered with Weber Middle School in Port Washington, Long Island to bring awareness of global issues and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the school community. I was first invited to Weber Middle School to lead a workshop on GCC’s program on one of their professional development days.
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Jun 28
Elizabeth StoltzStudent Action, Student Voices Africa, Obama, Youth
GCC students educate their peers about childhood malnutrition!
The very foundation of Global Concerns Classroom is that youth have the power to make a real difference in the world. Nowhere was this idea more clear than during Michelle Obama’s recent trip to South Africa. After all, even to follow the First Lady’s trip on twitter, you had to search #YoungAfrica! Her trip was dedicated to working with and empowering young African leaders to take action against hunger, HIV&AIDS, and poverty.
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Jun 24
Elizabeth StoltzStudent Action, Student Voices Active Global Citizenship, Top Ten
Check out some of the contributors to this article raising money for Plumpy'nut! From left-right: Lindsey, Conor, Colleen, Elizabeth, Lillie, Amanda
Read the news! – There is no better way to become a globally engaged student than to first know what’s going on in the world. Marc recommends reading several credible news sources daily. Try keeping up to date with current events by reading the international section of the newspaper, following global news sources on Twitter, or setting your internet homepage to a news site.
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Jun 23
Brett HahnGlobal Concerns Clubs, Student Voices Club, Leadership Core, Trevor Day School
Brett and Stella working on a Niger Climate Change activity at the Action Center
Being part of the GCC Core this year, I thoroughly enjoyed meeting other students from different schools who shared the same interest in helping the world as I do. As co-leader of the Global Concerns club at Trevor Day School, my role consists of leading the club in discussions on pressing issues, running fundraising efforts, and reaching out to students through e-mails and assemblies in an effort to raise global awareness.
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Jun 21
Andrea RanioloGlobal Concerns Clubs, Student Voices Club, Leadership Core, St. Vincent Ferrer High School
Club members from St Vincent Ferrer High School
As a freshman in St. Vincent Ferrer High School, I knew that I wanted to be a part of the Global Concerns Club, one of the most active clubs in school. At the time, I had no idea that as a Senior I would have the amazing and unique opportunity to work in collaboration with club leaders from high schools around the city in the GCC Leadership Core.
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Jun 21
Mbelu KalalaGlobal Concerns Clubs, Student Voices Club, Leadership Core, St. Vincent Ferrer High School
GCC Leadership Core exploring climate change at the Action Center
I am glad that I was able to be a part of Global Concerns Club at St Vincent Ferrer High School (SVF). It has given me many opportunities for growth in my senior year at SVF. In addition to the many activities we were able to do in school, there were several opportunities where we were able to learn outside of the classroom with students from other schools.
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Jun 20
Elizabeth StoltzDisplacement, Global Awareness Days World Refugee Day
Habeeb ur Rehman at his camp after the 2010 Pakistan floods (Photo: Concern Worldwide)
What if you were uprooted out of your home to escape terror or war? What would you take with you? What emotions would be running through your mind? What if you knew you were being forced to leave your country for a cause that you had no control over? Every year, millions of families must leave their home because of violence, natural disasters, their religion or race, heritage, or political ideas.
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Jun 19
Kaitlynne FoersterMillennium Development Goals, Student Action Africa, Colorado, Skype
7th grade students from Laredo Middle School in Colorado learn about the MDGs and Africa
Concern Worldwide is an amazing organization that really brought learning to life and helped my 7th grade Humanities students develop a very strong passion to make a difference in this world. Before we started our Africa unit, I was in touch with Concern’s Education Officer, Sylvia Wong, who helped me prepare some very hands on lessons for my students.
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