Global

Perspective

In today's world we need to be touch with other's in our global community. These are links that will start teachers, students, parents and the community at large to begin their journey of caring.

• CICH - Canadian Institute of Child Health. Information about the safety and health of children and environmental factors that affect their health
• Classroom Connections - Information for youth.
• David Suzuki - Information about the environment, climate change, salmon and fisheries and there are webcasts to view on "The Sacred Balance."
• Do Something Website - A site that gives teachers, students and parents ideas on becoming involved in a youth-led leadership and citizenship initiatives in schools.
• Eric Digest Articles
  • Practical Suggestions for Teaching Global Education.
• Generations Can Connect - Generations CanConnect is an online educational activity that enables youth and older Canadians to connect through first-hand story telling and Internet technology.
• Giraffe Project - Information about people who "stick their necks out" for the good of others.
• Global Issues - Issues from human rights, environmental or economic.
• Go for Green - G4G plans to organize Commuter Challenge 2002 when communities and workplaces across Canada will commit to reducing the
  number of single occupancy vehicles on our roads for 1 to 7 days during Environment Week (June 2-8, 2002).
  
• Human Rights Watch - Information and links about the rights of people.
• The Hunger Site - click on the button and you have provided the hungry with the value of 1.1 cups of staple food.
• Institute for Global Communications - Many articles and other sites to help youth become involved.
• I Walk to School - great active transportation sites across the world.
• Canadian Site
  
• Less Traffic - Learn innovative ways to reduce traffic and reclaim streets for play, celebration, community building and economic vitality from David Engwicht of Australia.
• Missing Children - Lists of missing children in Canada, and the USA.
• National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education - Excellent information about cultural diversity.
• NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Nobel Foundation - List of all winners and interviews with them.
• Nonviolence Web Site - Articles and lists of hard to find information on non-violence.
• Please Stop - Chat room to stop bullying, racism, harassment etc.
• SADD Online - Students against driving drunk.
• SETI - The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature, prevalence and distribution of life in the universe.
• Tiny Giant - Information for students about global issues - with a Canadian perspective.
• Tolerance - how to fight hate and how to become involved.
• The United Nations - Links to all facets of this organization.
• United Nations Development Program - A trusted source of knowledge-based advice and an advocate of a more inclusive global economy, UNDP provides funds; helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively; and promotes South-South cooperation. It seeks to address the many causes of poverty and to promote development, including through the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women.
• UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund. A section on Voices of Youth - children's rights and global activism.
• WHO - World Health Organization
• World Health Day- Takes place on April 7, 2002. For more information click on the link. Ideas and suggestions to make it interesting and fun.

Kindness

I shall pass through this world but once.
If, therefore, there be any
Kindness I can show,
Or any good thing I can do,
Let me do it now;
Let me not defer or neglect it,
For I shall not pass
This way again.
Grellet

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Last Updated March 8, 2005

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Susan Konopnicki