A central goal of Global B is to help you evolve into educated, proactive, and erudite global citizens. In a matter of years, you will exercise your power through voting, and as such, it is vital that you understand the intricacies of contemporary political issues. Perhaps even more importantly, you have been granted an opportunity to enjoy a strong education, and it is imperative that you use your education as a voice to empower those that have none. In Pakistan, less than one percent of children graduate from high school, and that number is even lower for women. In Afghanistan, current literacy rates are lower than rates of Florence, Italy - nearly 500 years ago. Even in our own country, disenfranchised and impoverished communities support failing school systems with dropout rates sometimes reaching 80%. You are not one of these statistics, and as such, it is your duty to do something about them.
We have read a number of articles throughout the year involving populations in need of support, and several of you have come up with some fantastic ideas regarding potential fundraisers. Please use this space to discuss a fundraiser or community service project that you would like our class to take on in March.
I am not sure exactly what to do or how to do it, but maybe something to help the people in Egypt since they have no ruler now
ReplyDeletewe should make t-shirts (that people would wear) and sell them and donate the money to some kind of charity that would help make the nets~gelonnie
ReplyDeleteThe school hasn't had a talent show in a long time. Maybe we could charge money for people to attend and then in between people's talents we could give information about the cause we are raising the money for. also we could sell raffle things at the show, like it's an event. It should go to the the charity helping the people get nets. -Kayla
ReplyDeleteWe could have a car wash in the school parking lot on a half day when the weather gets warmer. We could use the money to donate to the charity that needs the nets to prevent people from being infected with malaria. -Kathryn
ReplyDeleteMaybe we could go around school and collect money from people and give them something back, like what we do for 9/11 and cancer ribbons. It could be maybe $1 or $2 and we could make paper mosquitoes with an X over it to give the people that gave money, or just a simple bake sale at school. - Micayla
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