8.4.2 Case Study: Student Action
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8.4.2 Case Study: Student Action
How should I respond to globalization?
The Nepal Schools Project: For the past twenty years, students across Canada have participated in a project that supports schools in Nepal, an extremely poor mountainous country north of India. With the support of their teachers, communities, the government of Ontario, and the Canadian International Development Agency, students have worked with the government of Nepal to develop and support grassroots projects. These projects are identified by the people of Nepal and are managed and monitored by local people. Students have raised funds and travelled to a small village in Nepal where they have helped build a school, build latrines, teach the people about hygiene and nutrition, play games, and provide clothing and school supplies.
The two photos show some children from Nepal before and after receiving donated clothing from Canadian high school students.
Courtesy Nepal Schools Project
Courtesy Nepal Schools Project
The poverty of the southern Mahabharat region is reflected in the clothing the local village children wear to school. After receiving new clothing, identifying them as the same children is sometimes difficult.
The Nepal Schools Project is one way students have demonstrated global citizenship, but young people can participate in many other ways. Students demonstrate global citizenship every day by ...
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