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Global 20/20.. what is Global 20/20??

Today we had the very first meeting of Global 20/20. In the meeting, we were talking about what is Global 20/20 about, and what we will be focusing on in this event. From the meeting, I've gotten some basic ideas about Global 20/20, which were knowing that Global 20/20 is basically an event of helping to solve global issues, and in our cases, we will be focusing on the issue of global education. However, no one was sure about the specific things that we would be doing in Global 20/20 yet, because we will be deciding what we are going to do.

Ms.Smith has told us that we will be working with the students from a school in the U.S. I think it's going to be a great opportunity to get a closer view of the world. But since we are to help solving global issues, we had to learn about the issue that we are to solve before we took any steps further, including to work with the students from the U.S. Therefore, the other thing that we did during the meeting was reading the 'Education for All' section of High Noon. This section of the book was basically talking about why is global education a global issue.

I found some of the information from 'Education for All' were quite shocking. I've never noticed that there are actually loads of people that are illiterate around the world. I kind of feel sad for these illiterate people, but why should I? Why should I even care about these people? I belief that there are definitely plenty of reasons for these questions, and the reasons are going to be related to economies, human rights, and governments...etc. Although we've already been discussing about this in the end of today's meeting, I still think that it will be continued in the next meeting. Hopefully, we can soon figure the answer and find the best way to solve such global issue.


- http://www.nais.org/conferences/index.cfm?ItemNumber=147262&sn.ItemNumber=148035
[Picture of an earth on a hand. Copied by Jez Lee. 4th of Nov. 2008]