Happy International Youth Day!

Aug 12

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GCC students taking action at Henry Street School for International Studies

Happy International Youth Day!  Here’s to celebrating you – the readers of the Global Concerns Classroom Blog.  From August 15th-21st, young people from every corner of the globe will gather in Madrid, Spain to raise awareness about the cultural and legal issues that affect their generation.  Some of these issues include education, labor, hunger and poverty, health, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, and conflict.

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Changing the World One Belly at a Time

Aug 12

Maternal & Child Health, Student Action , , , 2 Comments

Elizabeth (third from left) at the 2nd Annual Walk for Plumpy'nut in York, PA in Oct 2008

August 12th is International Youth Day and I can’t think of a better example of a young global leader than Concern’s own “Plumpy’nut champion”, Elizabeth Stoltz. We first met Elizabeth a few years ago when she contacted us about fundraising for Concern’s child survival programs which pioneered the use of Plumpy’nut as an innovative solution to tackle malnutrition in children under five.

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