January 2016: Module 3

JD January 5, 2016 January 2016: Module 32016-01-05T15:00:41+00:00 The 2015-16 GEC

January 2016: Education

Watch the 3 videos below with your Chapter, and discuss. Please ensure your chapter comments on the Member Resource Site post by the end of the month! You may comment individually as members, or collectively as a chapter. The questions below are intended as guides: you do not need to answer all (or any) of the questions, so long as your comment is somehow related to the topic and materials. We encourage you to engage in discussion with one another in the comments section!

Orienting Discussion Questions:

What is “Education,” and why is it important?
What are some of the largest barriers to obtaining a quality education? Consider the similarities and differences that exist in different regions of the world
What role does gender play in obtaining an education?
What are your thoughts on how to increase access to education in different regions of the world?

Video 1: A Girl Who Demanded School -- how education promotes gender equality

Video 2: teaching one child at a time -- discrepancies between money allocated to education in India and children in attendance, etc.

Video 3: Episode 7 of Five-Minute Film Festival

Key Points:

Quality education is one of 17 Global Goals that make up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development Goal #4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

“Education is a right. It empowers individuals to increase their well-being and contributes to broader social and economic gains.” - See more at: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/women-and-the-sdgs/sdg-4-quality-education#sthash.o3Wf8Piw.dpuf

Children living in poverty are four times more likely to be out of school than children who are not experiencing poverty

Also See

barefoot college in India -- teach rural (many illiterate) men and women to become “professionals”
Why Poverty? -- Afghan Girl
Ted: A parable for Kenya (5:16)
Jeffrey Sachs videos: Video 1, Video 2, video 3, video 4, video 5

Sorry, comments are closed for this post

Nourish International’s mission is to engage students and empower communities to make a lasting impact on extreme poverty.

Since incorporating as a 501(c)3 non-profit in 2006, Nourish International has grown into a national movement with 65 Chapters on college and high school campuses in the US and Canada with a National Office in Chapel Hill, NC. Since 2003, we’ve invested over $550,000 and trained over 600 Project interns to implement 140 sustainable development projects all over the world. As a movement, we have placed 3rd in the Facebook Giving Challenge, received the North Carolina Peace Prize for excellence in cross-cultural solutions and sustainable development, and was featured at TEDxRaleigh, Ashoka U Exchange, and the United Nations.

Our approach is unique in that it addresses the massive needs of communities with sustainable, scalable solutions, while catalyzing tomorrow’s leaders to take action now. Nourish students partner with communities who lack the necessary funds and resources for development projects, but who have the entrepreneurial vision to impact poverty. We invest time and funds to support leaders within communities and empower local solutions.