The students at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Kentucky, USA, created an awareness campaign about racism in collaboration with The City School in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The students have stated the following in regards to the issue and their project: “This project is important to our group and community because it is an accepted stereotype in our area that needs addressed immediately. We hope to achieve more awareness of exactly was racism is and how it is wrong. The newsletter addresses the problem of racism by providing more information about it.” This student project was created as part of Campfire 2016, a youth virtual exchange program that connects students in the US, Jordan, and Pakistan. Campfire is run by Global Nomads Group. Campfire is made possible thanks to the generous support of our partners The Bezos Family Foundation, an award from the Aspen Institute Stevens Initiative with support from the U.S. Department of State and the Bezos Family Foundation, and additional support from PhotoWings, the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, the U.S. Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, and the Yahoo Employee Foundation.

1. Global Citizenship Project
GREENUP COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, GREENUP KENTUCKY
IN COLLABORATION WITH [DHA SCHOOL PAKISTAN]

2. No to Racism
This project is important to our group and community because it is an accepted stereotype in
our area that needs addressed immediately.
We hope to achieve more awareness of exactly was racism is and how it is wrong.
The newsletter and video addresses the problem of racism by providing more information
about it.
https://www.wevideo.com/view/670722094

3. Project Background
Greenup County High School in Greenup, Kentucky participated in a virtual exchange program
hosted by Global Nomads Group. As part of the program, our school collaborated with DHA
School in Pakistan to develop solutions to the challenges our communities face.
We decided to address the problem of Racism.
To do this, we created a newsletter.

4. Process
We had to come to a classroom consensus about what to do our project on, and racism was
the one that was unopposed.
We made small articles together as a class and came up with a short newsletter that depicts
racism and how it affects everyone. Then we spread the video into our community using social
media to make everyone aware of the effects of racism.
Our partner school, the DHA School in Pakistan, seemed enthusiastic about our project and
how it addressed the problem of racism.

5. Challenges
One of the challenges we faced as a class was who was writing, and who was not.
Those who did not wish their articles to be in the newsletter were not forced to do put
them in. Instead, they were able to work on the formatting and compilation of the paper.
Another challenge was the different responses. Most of them were very positive at
what we had done, yet others were adamant on degrading the issue of racism.
We came to the conclusion of that our newsletter was a success, because it fulfilled our
goal of making everyone aware that racism does exist in our community.

6. Our Collaboration
With positive feedback and suggestions of
what to do, Greenup County High School
encouraged DHA School in Pakistan to
persevere their project.
DHA School in Pakistan helped Greenup
County High School by giving positive
responses on how we could make our
newsletter more interesting.

7. Final Reflections
The success of our project was the impact it
provided to our community. It brought so
many positive responses in that we feel every
detail was a success.
We were most proud of how the final project
ended up looking. It was an amazing feeling of
putting what we had worked hard on out to
the public.
We hope to continue this awareness project in the future by creating more
articles and newsletters on the problem of racism.