One World Youth Project
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Uploaded by MSFS540 on Jan 2, 2008
Jessica Rimington visited South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Morocco, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Costa Rica and Mexico three years ago, to create a path toward better communication between the young people in these countries and the United States. One World Youth Project now promotes cultural exchange, youth leadership and community service around the world. The program has grown rapidly, and now includes 50 schools in 25 countries. The students, who were paired with a student from another country, started out by learning about each other's culture, and then working together on a community service project inspired by the UN Millennium Development Goals. Teachers were provided with a year-long curriculum to facilitate the exchange. Jessica has been a keynote speaker alongside Dr. Jane Goodall and former President Bill Clinton, as well as a speaker at UN World Environment Day, the UN Youth Assembly and the Green Festival. "As young people we are not just the future; we are the present," said Jessica. "If we want to change the world we have to not only take action ourselves, but also inspire others to do the same."
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This project already existed and was called Friendship Across Cultures Programme developed by Aye Aye Thant, daughter of 3rd Secretary-General U Thant, in 2007 at the U Thant Institute and announced at the UN in June, 2007. They have 2 countries working together - a US school with a school in another country (Korea was the first since that is where Ban Ki-Moon is from) and they learned about each other and then raised money for a 3rd school in a developing country (algeria was the first).
culturelady 1 year ago