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toc =**WELCOME**=
 * TO MS LEONG'S 8TH GRADE HUMANITIES GLOBAL ISSUES WIKI**

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 * Here in 8th Grade at SAS Pudong, we are __SPEAKING UP__ on the following global issues**:


 * **Massive step-up in the fight against poverty**
 * **Ensuring peacekeeping, and conflict prevention and combating terrorism**
 * **Education for all**
 * **Ending the digital divide**
 * **Addressing international labor and migration rules**

"//You must be the change you wish to see in the world//" Mahatma Gandhi

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January, 2008, Fay Leong, Shanghai American School, Pudong
 * CHECK OUT GRADE 8'S AMAZING ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH THEIR WIKIS! media type="custom" key="462447"**
 * Learn with us, contribute to us, join our Think Action organizations!**

=**Our Purpose**=

[|Millenium Development Goals - STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT]
 * We Believe That It's Time To:**

As part of our THINK ACTION movement, students from 8th grade Humanities here at SAS Pudong have joined the Global Issues Network (GIN). In 2008, Kimber, Vinay, Emily and Jonas attended the GIN conference in Beijing. http://www.earcos.org/gin2008/gin2.html

“//Students can be encouraged to __think__ systemically about real issues while also taking __action__ to improve the human condition. This approach involves __collaboration__ rather than competition, where students assume __leadership__ of their own programme. Their network should promote both face-to-face conferences and on-going communication via the latest technologies//.” ([|EARCOS Global Issues Network])

= = =Useful Information for the Wiki=

Hello 8th Graders! Look at the tabs under '**Instructions**' in navigation for __**useful information**__ and guidelines. Remember - make your brain take in what is necessary! Read everything carefully

Source:
 * [|www.achievemax.com/.../ 01/14/the-miracle-of-you/]**

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 * We have 2 winners !**

Congratulations to **Emily, Elena, Julia and Amanda** for their group page on this website. Their page has been chosen for their amazing presentation, original graphics and clear voice. Well done! Congratulations to **Leilei, Joanna and Ya Chun**. They have been selected for the thoughtful commentaries, original logo, and passionate support for their issue in their wiki Build Peace Together.

Excellent work to all of you! (thanks to http://www.photopox.com/iconsholidays.php for the fireworks!)

=Why Should We Get Involved?=

"//To tackle the underlying roots of **violence** and **conflict**, we need a massive **international** **effort** to reduce poverty and injustice, and to **promote development**, **democracy** and **human rights**//." Clare Short, Then UK International Development Secretary in a Speech to Labour Party Conference, Brighton UK, October 2001. Source: Sydney Morning Herald, **[|www.smh.com.au/.../2005/06/30/1119724757442.html]**

//"Mr. Director General, why is it that you people from UN agencies when you come here, instead of asking us for our experience and our skills, our thoughts and our dreams, you give us lessons and advice? Why do you not come here to listen first, then give us advice based on what you heard?"// A teacher in a village in Burkina Faso to Frederico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO, during a visit he made to the country
 * BUT - Keep this in mind**

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