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Summary

Working with Zambia's Ministry of Education and EDC, they aim to provide access to full primary education through radio distance learning to 800,000 orphans and vulnerable children

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

800,000 Zambian children cannot attend formal education, as they live too far from a school or are AIDS orphans or children from desperately poor families. Adding to the problem, many teachers in Zambia fall sick and die of AIDS. In a sweeping effort to combat illiteracy and improve life skills, the Ministry's Education Broadcasting Service has implemented highly successful radio instruction. It covers the primary school curriculum, and is called "Learning at Taonga Market."

How will this project solve this problem?

In remote Zambian villages, a literate volunteer is trained as a mentor. They are given a Lifeline radio. Using Interactive Radio Instruction created by US-based Educational Development Center (EDC), mentors lead children through grade school lessons

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will help create a literate population in Zambia. More than 220,000 children have benefited to date. They test as well as children attending formal school, score a little higher in math, and complete grade levels in half the time

Project Message

"I cannot believe what I am seeing! Many children have no pen or pencil and are doing complicated fractions and division problems in their heads. They also have learned English and spelling!" - Mr. Misinde Phiri, of World Vision.

I found this article off UNICEF, it describes a project Zambia is doing to promote and enable children to get more accessible educational opportunities.

I'd make a fantastic salesman :D

Hi~ I went to the mall and got signatures (:

Honk for Uniersal Education!

Save the Children

STOP THE PRESSES.

THIS STORY IS SO CRITICAL TO THE WORLD THAT

IT'S PROBABLY AT THE TOP OF EVERY NEWS SITE I VISIT. OH MY GAWDSH, SHE MUST BE THE 1^ST TEENAGER TO EVER DO DRUGS AND SHE’S FAMOUS. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE WORLD WE LIVE IN!?!? DEAR LORD, WHERE ARE HER MORALS? Meanwhile, 3 boys are missing in Michigan, ‘Corrective Rape' in South Africa is still a problem AND the UN voted to accept execution of gays, and it’s unimportant because MILEY CYRUS SMOKED A BONG. 

Fatimah Bamun, (BALIZENDA, Ethiopia) dropped out of Balizenda Primary School in grade 1 when her father refused to buy her pencils and paper. WOW, FATHER OF THE YEAR~ This is pretty harsh but actually kids around the globe don't have education because of reasons like this. They don't have enough money and so they have to provide for their families instead of work.

In sub-Saharan Africa, school fees consume nearly a quarter of a poor family's income, paying not only for tuition, but also indirect fees such as Parent-Teacher Association and community contributions, textbook fees, compulsory uniforms and other charges. FEES ARE KEEPING SCHOOL CHILDREN OUT OF THE CLASSROOMS. BUT WAIT. In order to deliver on the global promise to get all children quality primary education by 2015, the UN system is rallying partners around innovative policy measures and bold initiatives such as the abolition of school fees.

Roughly estimated 700 million primary-school-age children in the world today, about 93 million aren`t in school. A majority of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Mostly children of ethnic minorities from remote regions, working children, children living in conditions of emergency and conflict, children affected by HIV/AIDS, and children with disabilities. And 53 per cent – girls.

We watched Othello

“Put thy money in thy purse”

A quote Monica needs to obey. I mean she drops loose change ALL THE time. The money is just in her bag pocket which gets thrown around and when it does, I need to help her pick it up. Othello was a pretty good play when you look behind the old English and the many deaths. I really think Mr.Sauer has bad taste in men. How could he have a man-crush on Iago? Eww. Iago’s so mean! I mean not even just mean, he was kinda devious. Sauer kept bragging about how Iago was so intelligent and made a web of lies and was just so cool. I mean, i'm not braggin' but I've gotten away with more greatly intellectually required thinknig for some of the devious tihngs I get away with. I mean honestly. He’s a jerk who is selfish and caused the death of everyone. He made things so complicated and everything backfired. I kinda idolize him. So devious... 

I think my favorite character would have to be Iago. Devious, made everything interesting, so mysterious. How he wants to get everything he wants and goes through alot of effort too, but in the end he didn't do much work. His hands wern't soiled with blood or anything. You’re probably thinking why him? Yes, he is a cool and smart man. Making people his pawns, but he failed in the end. He managed to lead to the deaths of many, I kinda like evil characters. Amazing.

I real didn’t find Othello as amazing as everyone else did. I found it kinda of boring and dreary. It made me tired and depressed. I was totally uninterested. I however liked how I couldbn't understand the writing of what he was saying but I liked it whenever I learned what I meant because it is cool, shakespears language. It makes me think hard about what he could mean and how come he said it like that. Old english really amazes me. If you thought this book was amazing, then go read naruto or bleach, 100000000x more amazing. But for an old time play, this was aiight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2qQT6MuBQ

OH MY GAWD! NO UNICEF ALLOWED!

UNICEF works as a charitable foundation is carried out in 190 countries throughout the world. UNICEF has some 10,000 employees working on programmes developed in cooperation with the host country. These international priorities help child protection, survival and development. About 700 million primary-school-age kids in this world, around 93 million aren’t in school. About 3/4 of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.  Mostly children of ethnic minorities from remote regions, living in conditions of emergency and conflict, children with HIV/AIDS, and disabled children. & those victims- 53 per cent – girls. Research shown every year of schooling, wages for women and men increase by an average of 10%. Good education keeps kids in school and makes them less weak to exploitation and forms of abuse. Children with of educated parents are most likely to survive and be healthier since they don’t have better nutrition and immunization rates. Educated moms tend to send there kids to school, a key in breaking the cycle of inter-generational poverty.

UNICEF promotes good education for girls and boys. It also recognizes that a special effort is required on behalf of girls, who're usually more marginalized and disadvantaged. Starting in 1999, in Afghanistan, UNICEF took the brave step to start homeschooling for girls and boys since girls were not allowed to attend public school. Nearing the end of 2001, homeschooling reached 58,000 Afghan children. In Ethiopia, UNICEF outreached and teacher training created a 14% increase in girls enrolling in primary school. In Syrian Arab Republic, about 3,000 teen girls joined in ‘Back to School’ classes, providing unfortunate girls with basic education in half the usual time.

The MDGs, are now widely accepted as universal benchmarks for measuring progress globally in development, promise education (primary) to all the world’s children by 2015. They also aim to eliminate sexism in primary & secondary education completely by 2015. this charity’s approach requires advocacy at the highest levels of government. Advocacy among partners and national officials to make girls’ education a priority in sector plans; mobilization communities and institutions to implement acceleration measures. The safeguarding of quality to avoid setbacks in future time; and strong local participation to advertise ownership and sustainability. It means anticipating the consequences of acceleration and planning accordingly, in terms of facilities, staffing, recurrent costs and management.

OMG MR. SAUER SAID NO UNICEF! OUR FATHER LACOMBE SCHOOL CANNOT BE IN BUSINESS WITH UNICEF. OMG OMG OMG. I'M PISSED. I BLOGGED A BILLION ON IT. WHATEVER! I'M KEEPING IT HERE. OMG. I ASKED WHY NOT AND HE SAID 'I'M NOT SURE' OMG I GOOGLED AND AND IT DIDN'T HELP. AWE MAN. UNICEF WAS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION I FOUND THAT ACTUALLY WORKED TOWARD GETTING HAITI A BETTER EDUCATION. ONE THAT FITS PERFECTLY

 WITH MY MDG )': I'M SAD. BUT 'SAVE THE CHILDREN' WAS MY NEXT CHOICE. I think save the children in okay since when I was talking to a representative, they told me that 'Save the children' works toward getting schools in some countries like Ethiopia. AI YA, I'M ANGRY. I FELL IN LOVE WITH UNICEF AND NOW I CAN'T USE IT.... *sniff* *sniff*

Hello~ It's social time

My ecological footprint ? A surprise. When we did it with the class, we needed about 5 earths. If I remember correctly and when I did a more accurate one at home, I got 2 earths including the one I have now.  So I took notes on everthing I threw away in a day and here goes: 1. My face pad 2. My floss 3. My tissue to wipe my mouth 4.my toilet for.. ummmm secret (; 5. My breakfast eggshells 6. My dried out pen 7. My cracker packaging.8 My transfer from the bus, 9. My sandwich plastic covering 10. My juice box 11. Another dried out pen 12. My tv dinner box 13.about 10 more cracker packaging 14. 3 Orange peels 15. 4 candy wrappers 16. Packaging for the freshly opened new package of papers. 17. Floss 18 q-tips 19.yogurt containers, 2 20.  Broken bobby pins, 3 hair ties 21. Face pad.  I arrive at the conclusion that our world will collapse. We can not see what future lies ahead. Maybe we will perfect a bio-fuel that is globally used? Or maybe we destroy thermodynamics and find a cheap way to create energy? (probably never going to happen). I threw away waaaaaaaaaaay too much things in a day, i never realized before I made this list that I could've re-used 90% of these products. I know better now, but i probably won't even re-use them even after this blog is done. If I throw away this much, then a whole billions of people on Earth must throw away more than I do or as much D:

Today, after the Remembrance celebration, half of the class was here in Mr.Alger's class. We somehow treaded off the topic of current events and went into the topic of sexism. In the end of class, it was a debate on who was tougher, the male, or the female? I'm relieved that by the end of this week, we have a four day weekend. This can either be great or horrible depending on what people got on their report cards. Judging on the amount of effort i've put it so far, I don't think it'll be too pretty. Either way i'll get scolded. My parents wants the best for me therefore I should've done as good as I did in grade 9, in the 90s, those were the good days.

On Monday we`re going to be starting a brand new look on economics and why they differ. Hayek economics apparently focuses less government control where as Keynes economics focuses on more government control These two different economic philosophies have been going head to head since the last century, the following video pretty much sums everything up.. Mr. Alger taught us about the Bear, bust and other stock vocabulary i don't know. We learned how Hayek wants less government control where rich people stay rich then make businesses and higher more people whom are not rich to work and they make money and they make their own business and it goes on and on thus Keynes wants more government control where the government makes businesses and hires people  and those people make money, get rich and make their own businesses and they hire more people and those people get that rich and than they make their own businesses and hire more people and so on ~ It goes on and on like a cycle.

Justice Film Fest & Social Movies (:

So the Justice film festival is on friday-saturday and i'm going with Monica and Jamal to find some Universal Education Videos. I went online to check for times but found NO UNIVERSAL EDUCATION VIDEOS. NO NOES! IF I GO IT'LL BE A WASTE OF TIME but I can blog about this and learn some stuff about other people's stories and about these MDGs. I look forward to going <3 I'll have fun i hope, but it's SOOOOO cold so maybe i can't go because even i won't have time since i have a billion math, social and LA homework to do -____-". Last period was social class. We watched movies! YAY! I always like social (well actually I never like Social..) because no notes! Mostly videos <3 it beats work any day P: Today we watched the "Story Of Stuff" The water bottle version story. It was talking about how water bottles are made and how they wreck the environment after they are used. It was funny how to see how corporations like Dasani and Aquafina trick people in saying their water is greater than any tap water. As a matter a fact all they use is tap water purified by a BRITA water filter.


Its unfortunate to see the affects of the environment and how badly it recylces it self. I was one of times I ever paid attention because I learned that most water bottles that were supposed to be recycled are actually shipped to developing countries and are just left there. This relates to everyone and me and well because all I drink is bottled water. I learned that I actually pay 2000% more dollars than what i could pay for the same thing. I'm trying to save the world by recycling everything but actually i'm still wrecking the world because most of what I recycle doesn't get recycled. I'll tell my mom to just use tap water from now on O:

We also watched a clip from the show 60Minutes! It was about people in Bangladesh " the hell on earth". It showed what they did with some lost boats in the sea and what they would do with them after they were used. It looked to be a horrible place to live in because there is so many toxic effects. Also when recylcing computers or tvs their are many reprecussions though.They have rare metals like gold and silver they also contain dangerously toxic materials like mercury. Its not good for the environment, children and adults and anyone for that fact.