Nov 20
Elizabeth StoltzGlobal Awareness Days, Millennium Development Goals Universal Children's Day
A Concern classroom in Afghanistan
Children under the age of five are the most vulnerable to malnutrition and life-threatening diseases. Although the United Nations declared that every child is deserving of growing in health and having access to protection and care, 10 million children still die every year from preventable causes. By providing routine immunizations alone, we could save 2.2 million children!
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Nov 18
Elizabeth StoltzEducation Education, Top Ten
Students at Future Kids School in Kenya
1. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
2. “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man.” – Horace Mann
3. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” – George Evans
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Nov 16
Elizabeth StoltzGlobal Awareness Days, Student Action International Day of Tolerance
Children in one of Concern's Child Friendly Spaces in Haiti
UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon wrote that tolerance is “a virtue and a quality, but above all, tolerance is an act – the act of reaching out to others and seeing differences not as barriers, but as invitations for dialogue and understanding.” Today, on International Day of Tolerance, we celebrate the ties that bond humankind.
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Nov 11
Francesca ConlinEducation, Student Voices Concern, Education, Field Visit, Kenya, Livelihoods
Francesca visiting with students at Brilliant Academy in Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya
I walked down a dusty hill and into a small classroom constructed of sheet metal supported only by wooden branches. In the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, wide-eyed school children greeted me with a song and a dance. Their smiles jumped right out at me. As my eyes began to scope out the area I was in, I was astonished by the fact that such beautiful faces could be in such severe poverty.
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Nov 04
Elizabeth StoltzStudent Action, Voices from the Field Book, Top Five
As today’s Top 5, the staff at Concern provided their favorite book recommendations! Have you read any of the books below? Leave us a comment to let us know and tell us what books you would add to the list! For more recommendations, check out our virtual bookshelf.
“Half the Sky” by Nicolas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn – Sylvia Wong, Education Officer
Written by Pulitzer prize winners and husband and wife duo Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn, this award-winning book admonishes the abuses that plague women in developing countries and discusses how education can be used to empower them.
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Nov 02
Sylvia WongStudent Action, Student Voices 7 billion, Poverty
Photo: National Geographic
This week, the world welcomes the 7th billionth person on the planet. While many of us may not feel the immediate weight of this number in our everyday lives, here are a few facts to put it into perspective:
As World Food Program frames it, 1 billion people go to bed hungry every night and 2 billion people are online today in the world. Watch their video and think about what we can do if the 2 billion online users came together to fight hunger.
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