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Videos from GSF2009
If I grow up...
"When I grow up I want to be..." expresses the hopes and dreams of children everywhere. Children from poor countries share a lot of the same hopes and dreams but face the challenge of a greater question: "will I live to grow up at all?" For too many children it is not "when I grow up" but "if I grow up." On Tuesday 30th July 2009, in Westminster, London, GSF2009 explored some of the issues behind child mortality in developing countries.
The core conference learning objectives included:
- ...I want to be healthy. The students explored the issue of child health and its effect on child survival in different countries.
- Water and sanitation. The students came to understand how lack of water and sanitation endangers the health of children around the world.
- Family and community care. The students learnt about the simple and effective ways families and communities can help to prevent child deaths in developing countries.
- ...I want to be safe. The students explored the issues of food security and climate change, and learnt about the impacts that these might have on the lives of children now and in the future.
- Climate change. The students were taught how climate change threatens vulnerable communities around the world.
- Food security. The students explored the roots of global food shortages and the impact of the food crisis on the world’s children.
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At the event (by video) Jon Snow launched the Media Partnership Challenge, encouraging students to create a concept and storyboard for a short film about how children around the world are denied the right to survive, let alone develop to their fullest potential. |
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These videos show something of the event. A larger set are available here.
Here are a few selected photos from the conference for you to download.
To download, right-click on thumbnail and select "save target as"
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As in previous years, we provide resources in advance of, during and after the conference, equipping students to go back to school as Peer Educators. In addition, they were invited to consider involvement in one or both of the Global Student Forum ASKS:
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From Christian Aid: Countdown to Copenhagen. Reasoned engagement in the political process surrounding the Copenhagen climate change conference in December 09 |
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From World Vision: Reasoned engagement in the political process surrounding the Call to G8 to prioritise action to address the 9 million child deaths each year that occur in developing countries |
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