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"Friendship Through Education"
A raíz de los atentados del 11 de septiembre en Estados Unidos, el pasado mes de octubre el Departamento de Educación de aquel país seleccionó al Centro IEARN USA para construir una red de ONGs e instituciones de diversa índole que busca la interacción entre niños, jovenes y adultos de distintos países y culturas, con especial énfasis en los pueblos árabes.
En esta iniciativa participan además :
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UNICEF
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Global SchoolHouse
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CyberSchool Bus (UN)
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International Rescue Committee
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People to People International
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Sister Cities International
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ePals
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World Wise Schools (Peace Corps)
From: "Eliane" <pcmelo@inco.com.lb
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:27:09 -0400
From: "Eliane" <pcmelo@inco.com.lb>
Subject: Fw: An Opportunity?]
Hi everyone,
In Lebanon and more particularly in the schools I work with we are
reinforcing the schools' core values which are diversity, tolerance,
understanding and peace education. We are also focusing our efforts to
engage in projects to reinforce those values. Our students population is
International with 17 Nationalities, Lebanese, Americans, Australian,
Saudis,Canadian... so it was urgent to discuss with our students our
commitment to those values (we didbin almost every high school class).
IEARN has played a key role in helping us reach our goals and in the
crisis we are facing we will renew our commitment and focus on projects
that reinforce multi-culturalism, diversity and tolerance. I appreciated
your message Peter and feel very strongly that we have to work to break
this "stereotype" image one acquires from another culture.. (I don't think
I will ever forget my fright when I was walking in the Metro in Paris in
1978 and I was followed by a woman with a stick, shouting "Dirty Arab".
I wondered why then....I was visiting a University to persue my studies...
I opted to continue studying in Lebanon and joined the AUB.). Yes, we have
to collaborate to give our students hope, to get them to know and appreciate
one another. Like Rosy, I think that every step, project and activity is
helpful and will help us achieve our goals.
This year, we started working on YouthCaN Med and students in NYC have
contacted us to know which theme we will be working on to get us together
with partners. ……………………
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