Bridging The Gap Through Service
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The document discusses bridging the inequality gap between the rich and poor in Central America and the Caribbean. It describes an organization called Service For Peace that involves students in voluntary service programs to increase international cooperation and reduce poverty. The programs are designed to improve education and provide leadership training to address both political and economic inequality.
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- 1. Bridging the Gap through Service Addressing Inequality in Central America and the Caribbean www.serviceforpeace.org
- 10. “ … the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” Albert Schweitzer
- 11. Part 1 Changing the Paradigm through Service
- 13. Opportunities for the volunteer to develop character
- 14. Volunteers are encouraged to engage in dialogue with the activity, other volunteers and the beneficiaries of their service. A circle of learning
- 16. I slept and I dreamed that life was all joy. I woke and saw that life was but service. I served and I understood that service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore poet and Nobel laureate
- 17. Part 2 Contribute to Society and Make History
- 18. Improving the quality of life
- 19. Confronting the damage that uncaring, self-centered behavior wreaks on the environment
- 21. Research shows that service to the community give a sense of belonging—ownership.
- 27. The Millennium Development Goals What they are Where they came from Why they are important http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
- 28. The Millennium Declaration, adopted by 189 heads of state at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, committed governments and intergovernmental institutions to focusing international economic and social cooperation on the achievement of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 This list of goals is a ground-breaking achievement by the international community Not only did all U.N. member states agree to the MDGs, but it was the first time the international community-with the United Nations as facilitator-identified focused, time-bound, measurable and mutually-reinforcing development goals as a framework for the improvement of the human condition 8 GOALS……
- 29. 8 ways to change the world …
- 31. Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General, United Nations “ These eight commitments…are simple but powerful objectives that every man and woman…can easily understand and support. They are also different from other bold pledges that became broken promises over the past 50 years: first, because they have unprecedented political support; second, because they are measurable and time-bound, with most of this agenda meant to be attained by the year 2015; and third -- and most important – because they are achievable.”
- 32. “ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has .” Margaret Mead anthropologist
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- Thinking about and discussing the meaning of their service experience, connecting it with broader: social issues personal values. A student helping in a homeless center in lower Manhattan as part of the Youth Service Opportunity Project comes to see a human face on what previously may have been an abstract concept – homelessness. Eg. Students in two courses – psychology and creative writing – work in pairs to make weekly visits throughout the semester to homebound elderly person . Task is to write a short biography. Robert Bringle , director of the Center for Public Service and Leadership at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianaplois have a flier: Tell me and I forget Teach me and I remember Involve me and I learn. (T. Marchese, “Service-Learning in the Disciplines: An Interview with Monograph Series Editors R. Bringle and E. Zlotkowski, AAHE Bullitin (March 1997). For College Students Course based service has a stronger effect on promoting students’ sense of civic responsibility than does service conducted independently or through the cocurriculum. [A.W. Astin and L.J. Sax, “How Undergraduates Are Affected by Service Participation, Journal of College Student Development, 39, no.3 (May/June 1998): 251-63] Structured reflection linking the academic and service components Journals Papers presentations .
- What are the highest development priorities in this country? Introduce the Purpose What are the MDGs? How they originated Why do they matter? Background The MDGs include halving income-poverty and hunger; achieving universal primary education and gender equality; reducing under-5 mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-quarters; reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS; and halving the proportion of people without access to safe water. These are age-old challenges. Poverty is an old enemy that has many faces. What is unprecedented is the commitment of world leaders to agree on setting a deadline for human development.
- Talk about the benefits and downsides of the Goals, and be sure to have the information on the details of the targets.
- The Millennium Development Goals were not a ‘bolt from the blue’, but encapsulate a lot of the work of UN conferences of the 1990s (and earlier) and bring them together in a coherent, targeted framework for international development.