Sep 30
Elizabeth StoltzMillennium Development Goals, Student Action Millennium Development Goals, Top Ten
GCC students campaigning for the MDGs
Last week, we took a look at the interconnectedness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Adopted by the UN in 2000, these goals set a visionary path to better, more equitable future. If that blog post left you feeling slightly overwhelmed by the magnitude of these global goals, have no fear. Global Concerns Classroom has outlined 10 ways you can make an impact right away.
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Sep 23
Elizabeth StoltzMillennium Development Goals, Student Voices Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals
I’ve always thought it was easy to be intimidated by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). After all, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger seems like a lofty goal for 2015. But once I started to examine the goals, it’s much easier to see how they work together.
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Sep 16
Catherine ConleyMillennium Development Goals, Student Workshop Global Concerns Classroom, Millennium Development Goals, St. Jean Baptiste, Workshop
Students at St Jean Baptiste working on improving women's rights in Pakistan
St. Jean’s hosted its second biennial Social Justice Day on March 29, 2011, a day aimed at educating our sophomores and juniors about issues of education, poverty, hunger, and water that our world faces daily and how they can begin to help affect change. This year the event was coordinated by our friends at Concern Worldwide, an international non-government organization that aims to end world hunger.
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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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May 25
Joop KoopmanHunger, Voices from the Field Concern, Hunger, Ireland, Millennium Development Goals
Roger Thurow, co-author of "Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty", opened the panel discussion on global hunger
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, led off a distinguished panel on global hunger and Ireland’s preeminent role in fighting it by stressing that hunger “is not just about food”—but foremost about justice. The seminar on global hunger—sponsored by Self Help Africa and Concern Worldwide US— was held at the Irish Consulate in New York on May 21, 2010.
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May 03
Sylvia WongMaternal & Child Health, Voices from the Field Eastern High School, Global Concerns Classroom, Millennium Development Goals, Skype
Allyson Brown, Active Citizenship Manager, presents on Concern's Maternal & Child Health program via Skype to students in New Jersey
On Friday, May 30th, GCC facilitated our first Skype presentation on Concern’s Maternal and Child Health program with a class from the Gifted and Talented Program at Eastern Regional High School in New Jersey. Two seniors, Divya Shankar and Shikha Talwar, have been directing a Millennium Development Goal Initiative with their class called Project MDG: Make Dreams Grow.
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Apr 13
Shani WatlerPoverty, Student Voices End of Poverty, Human Rights Class, Millennium Development Goals, NYC Lab School
Reflections on poverty and the MDGs bring back memories of a trip to New Orleans
I have been finding this unit on the Millennium Development Goals to be extremely interesting. As a fortunate youth living in NYC, I have come to understand that if I want to be socially involved in issues pertaining to the ones we discuss in Human Rights class, I am going to need to put myself out there. I am going to need to seek out information and be proactive and curious. I want to share a personal essay of mine.
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Apr 12
Sylvia WongPoverty, Student Voices End of Poverty, Human Rights Class, Millennium Development Goals, NYC Lab School, Workshop
Students from NYC Lab School explore the MDGs in their human rights class
Seniors in four human rights classes at the NYC Lab School have been studying the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a unit this semester. As a start, they read Jeffrey Sachs’ “The End of Poverty” together in class and discussed their thoughts on economic development and eliminating poverty.
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Feb 13
Joop KoopmanStudent Workshop, Water Annual Workshop, Fordham University, Fundraiser, Global Concerns Classroom, Global Water Crisis, Haiti, Millennium Development Goals, Water Walk
Over 100 students from nine different NYC high schools gather at Fordham University to explore solutions to the global water crisis
For the second year in a row, Concern Worldwide teamed up with Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs for Concern’s Global Concerns Classroom’s Annual Student Workshop, which was held on Feb 12 at the Fordham Law School in Manhattan. This year’s theme was: “Global Water Crisis: Exploring Solutions.”
Around the world, more than 1.1 billion people do not have access to a reliable and sustainable source of clean water.
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Feb 05
Sylvia WongMillennium Development Goals, Student Workshop Dalton, Global Concerns Classroom, Millennium Development Goals, Workshop
One student group focused on MDG #6: combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other major diseases in Uganda
For the second year in a row, Global Concerns Classroom partnered with The Dalton School to facilitate a student workshop around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the grade 7 classes. A few days before the workshop, GCC visited the grade 7 students with an introductory presentation on the MDGs given by Allyson Brown, Active Citizens Manager.
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