Curriculum
One World Youth Project provides its participating groups with 8 months worth of  curriculum. In October, youth learn about the importance of cultural exchange in taking positive action. In November, they learn about all of the UN Millennium Developments Goal and begin to narrow in on their focus MDG. Each sister-group pair is assigned the same MDG, uses identical curriculum and is encouraged to communicate about each monthly assignment. Each MDG is explored in the curriculum through a real life, personal story of someone whose life intersects with the focus MDG. For more about the curriculum...click here.
Read student responses...
Community Surveys
Our community is very sheltered and pretty suburban. More than half of the people living here are Asian. Walnut is very much like a bubble. ... more Walnut High School, Walnut, California, USA
What we like… There are parks. People are friendly. There are a lot of schools and NGOs. People work together in community ... more Frijoles Magicos, Lima, Peru
What are your concerns for the local community? Lack of social events/gatherings in which the community interacts, don't help and encourage youth enough/often ignore their concerns/importance, dirty/polluted Mystic River, pollution, oil spill recently caused a major fire and destruction in Everett (neighboring community)...more Medford High School Roots & Shoots, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
In Seattle, we have a culture of global awareness that is making leaps and bounds towards the Kyoto Protocol. Though this is something that Seattlites are very proud of, perhaps what is most shameful to us is the hypocricy of this situation. ...more Global Connections, Seattle, Washington, USA
The status of progress towards the MDGs in Sri Lanka...more Bishops College, Columbo, Sri Lanka
MDG 2: Education
....click here for larger view & more Instilling Goodness/Developing Virtue Girl's School
of Talmage, California, USA
Education means a better future. Every child expects an education and most take it for granted....more Buena Park High School, Buena Park, California, USA
MDG 3: Gender Equality
The major gender issues here seem to be commercial sex work and female genital mutilation...more Community Leadership Program, Kenema, Sierra Leone
We had Zoe Gascon visit our class. She works in a women's
resource center in our town that helps women suffering from domestic abuse in particular....more Riverside School, Lyndonville, Vermont, USA
Survey of gender equality in our community....more Global Connections, Seattle, Washington, USA
When our group discussed this prompt we at first struggled to see any inequalities in our own community....Yet we came to the realization that even though we may not see it very often the gender inequality is still apparent in our own community...more Global Connections, Seattle, Washington, USA
The Empowerment is very important because it can facilitate development within our Community. ...more Perfect Youth Group of Arusha, Tanzania
MDG 4: Child Mortality
Possible causes that we discussed were very similar to causes that they read about in the sections by Mrs. Barlee. They were: bad nutrition, mosquito borne diseases (malaria, denghe), poorly trained birth attendants (they told me about midwives here who are midwives because their mothers were midwives, and many, if not most, have no formal training), diarrhea (one of the students even said that he had diarrhea as a baby), malnutrition, poverty, not going to hospitals, and unclean water....more Villa Verde School, Gracias, Honduras
Access to health care providers including skilled birth attendants… In Gracias most of the answers were yes to having access to health care providers. There is a hospital in town, but not well respected....more Villa Verde School, Gracias, Honduras
Child mortality is not a great concern in my immediate community, however, it is in nearby Washington D.C...more Sherwood High School, Sandy Spring, Maryland, USA
In Tanzania Every year, almost 10.5 million children die before their fifth birthday...more Perfect Youth Group of Arusha, Tanzania
MDG 5: Maternal Health
To improve maternal health, the best tool is education. The problem is that education takes time to break through long established barriers in thinking to new ideas....more Walnut High School, Walnut, California, USA
Every Pregnant Woman should get all Maternal health as quick as possible” But in Some hospital, this is not working, due to poor services....more Perfect Youth Group of Arusha, Tanzania
MDG 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria & other diseases
....click here for larger view Nauset Regional High School of Eastham, Massachusetts, USA
This story was very inspiring because the girl always prayed about how she wasn't going to let the HIV hurt her if she wouldn't hut it. She always kept a positive attitude, even when she knows she is at a risk of dying....more Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School of Orleans, Massachusetts, USA
Sri Lanka is a country of low-level HIV epidemic, with an estimated number of 3,500 people living with HIV. As of 2004, 131 people had died from AIDS in Sri Lanka, however there is a potential for spread.
The country is still struggling with major diseases, such as malaria, dengue and tuberculosis. ...more Bishops College, Columbo, Sri Lanka
It effect peoples life as many people are dying, so that led to disability of working capacity,Orphans,lack of skilled labors and Lowering development within our society and community in general...more Perfect Youth Group of Arusha, Tanzania
MDG 7: Environmental Sustainability
Sustainability means maintaining nature for future generations. We need to maintain a balance between ourselves and the environment.
...more
Frijoles Magicos, Lima, Peru
Sustainability means having a symbiotic relationship with the environment and reducing your impact on it to either a very small or nonexistant level. Sustainability means living in harmony with nature and treating it with great respect....more Medford High School Roots & Shoots, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
The specific Environmental problems in our community is: Improper Sanitations. The Economic Impact on our community is: Eruption of diseases such as Cholera which lead to lose those skilled people who die with such diseases, so that’s reducing capabilities on work which lead to economy depression...more Perfect Youth Group of Arusha, Tanzania
On How We Spend Our Typical Day...
...more from Frijoles Magicos, Lima, Peru
We compared notes about our pie chart "typical day," adding the quote by Annie Dillard who said, "As we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ...more Santa Barbara Sister Cities Student Exchange Program, Santa Barbara, California, USA
On Culture
Culture is the totaling people’s ways of life as they are strugg ling to live and with their daily struggles in life as the ways of Dress, Drinks, Eating, Worships, Sports etc. ...more Perfect Youth Group, Arusha, Tanzania
We defined cultural norm as "unwritten rules we follow in particular situations because we just know what to do." ...more The Riverside School, Lyndonville, Vermont, USA
Parents are interested in bringing up their children by themselves, although poverty and the environment (e.g. rural/suburb) sometimes urge some parents to send their children to well-to-do families or families living at urban areas ...more Community Leadership Program, Kenema, Sierra Leone
Family and love are the most important values in our culture. We also value education because the benefit of money profits our lifestyles. ....more Buena Park High School, Buena Park, California, USA
Sri Lanka is a multi-religious society. Though Buddhism is the major religion, other religions, such as Hinduism, Chritianity, and Islam are also followed....more Bishops College, Columbo, Sri Lanka
Our culture is obsessed with time, down to the minute our daily lives revolve around the hands of the clock....more Nauset High School, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA
General World view Our opinions about the world are biased based on what the media shows us. Most Americans have no clue about what is happening in the world today. ....more Sherwood High School, Sandy Spring, Maryland, USA
Role of family: Moving away from traditional family roles. (More) shared domestic duties ....more 6th Line United Youth, Mooretown, Ontario, Canada
Attitude toward age: 55+ is old, under 25 is young, and never ask! Its all downhill after 30. The older, the more important.....more Walnut High School, Walnut, California, USA
Virtually all Americans know how to read, but would often choose TV instead. Classics are Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Emerson etc ....more Global Connections, Seattle, Washington, USA
 Values and Concepts of Fairness: Honesty, kindness, love, family, and respect (for self, for others, for diversity, for the environment) was quickly brought up, with an interesting discussion about how life can be sometimes unfair in the moment but down the road, things balance themselves out. ....more Santa Barbara Sister Cities Student Exchange Program, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Culture in America is united yet diverse. As a country, we share certain aspects of life, especially a focus on time. We tend to rush through things, sometimes important things like family and friends. ....more Medford High School Roots & Shoots, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
The world has wonderful things, but it’s also corrupt and contaminated… but luckily there are many people who want to make progress....more Frijoles Magicos, Lima, Peru
The American culture prides itself on freedom for its citizens. America doesn’t have one tradition; it has a variety of traditions. ....more New Canaan Country School, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA |
Service Projects!
Each sister-group pair designs and implements a community service project which helps to achieve their focus MDG. Groups used the GUIDE to MDG ACTION to help develop their action plans.
click here to view examples of One World Youth Project service work from previous years
OWYP groups 2008 MDG service projects are now underway! Here are some examples:
Nauset Regional High School of Eastham, Massachusetts, USA recognizes that...
....across the world people needlessly suffer every day from preventable and curable diseases, that in developed nations we often take for granted. However, these diseases lurk in our own backyards too, our own communities, even if sometimes we'd rather be blind to them. In our small and isolated community of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA one of these devastating illnesses is a painful reality for many people: HIV/AIDS. Our project will focus on this aspect of MDG 6, because we see a need for positive action on the topic of AIDS here. The goal of our community service project is to raise not only awareness about HIV/AIDS, to educate and dispel misconceptions, but also to gain the interest of youth in our community about AIDS where we live, and how it affects us....We propose to make a short documentary film about AIDS on Cape Cod and distribute it to health classes, in several schools.... click here to read their complete action plan
The Applewood School of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada has...
...launched a button campaign to raise money and awareness of the pressing needs of MDG 4 - Reduce Child Mortality.
As of March 7th they have raised over $970.00!! The students designed the buttons, brochures and wrote fundraising letters. They have also made powerpoint presentations at a District School Board of Niagara Board Meeting, and have guest lectured with their teacher at Brock University and at the Canadian Embassy. Click here to see the brochure they created!
The Heritage School of Dehradun,India proposes...
... to adopt a village in the outskirts of town. They plan to interview the people about their problems, perform skits with lessons & messages, talk about the MDG's... more
The Carleton School of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada is...
...raising awareness of Gender Equality and Empowering Women. The class decided to purchase silicone wristbands and raise money for a local charity that help support women. We may also decide to send the raised money to another charity we haven’t decided. The wristbands are blue swirled with white and say Gender Equality & Empower Women O.W.Y.P.
OWYP in Sri Lanka is in Bishop’s College in the form of a club…..
The Projects done by us up to now:-
- Distributing AIDS Awareness cross ribbons in school free of charge to be worn during the week 1st December to 7th December, 2007.
- Selling Christmas cards purchased from the Deaf and Blind School with an MDG 6 Awareness message printed by us in them.
- Putting up various news paper articles and interesting facts about AIDS, Malaria, Dengue and Tuberculosis around school.
Projects planned by us include:-
1. Organizing an Essay and Poster competition for schools in Colombo on Topic/s related to AIDS, Malaria, Dengue and Tuberculosis Awareness.
2. We also hope to invite AIDS Ambassadors in Sri Lanka to be present as Guests of Honour and a Doctor of Medicine to deliver a speech on AIDS Awareness at the Prize Giving of this competition.
3. Distributing leaflets about AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and Dengue awareness.
4. Organizing Tuberculosis, Dengue and Malaria Awareness programmes for the respective awareness days
.5. Educating students about the importance of keeping their environment clean to reduce the spread of dengue and malaria.
6. Including awareness messages on all above diseases in our annual news bulletin.
7. Organizing a clean up campaign in school to combat dengue and malaria.
8. Printing Leaflets on AIDS, Dengue, Malaria and TB and having same distributed amongst the estate population
...click here to view their full action plan
The Community Leadership Program of Kenema, Sierra Leone is planning...
to organized the following: The major gender issues in Sierra Leone seem to be commercial sex work and female genital mutilation.
They want to make a drama about commercial sex work, so show why and how it exists. " We want to talk about the causes (poverty, parents being killed, lack of skills, etc), problems that can come from it (HIV, unwanted pregnancy, mental trauma, etc.) and the people involved (the young girls, the older male customers, the corrupt police and judges, etc.). This can be part of your project or separate, you decide. They have 'cinemas' here where people pay to watch DVDs on a tv and we would like to distribute them there. They have been working on the script over the holidays" ...more
The Global Connections group of Seattle, Washington is...
creating a documentary about gender equality that they can MASS PRODUCE and give out for FREE, both in home town and in Sierra Leone. By giving out 100's of free dvds of the documentary, they will be reaching a large community on an intellectual level. click here to read their full action plan
The Santa Barbara, California group is considering...
an invasive plant removal program
The Puerto Vallarta, Mexico group is considering...
instituting a recycling program
... more projects to come! |
Declare Yourself!
One World Youth Project groups write declarations describing what it is like to be a young person in their community and about their concerns, hopes, and dreams for the future.
READ SOME OF THE DECLARATIONS
One World Youth Project declarations were presented at the United Nations in August 2005 and August 2006.
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