Global Citizen Corps Blog

  • Experience through Performance

    Submitted by ksettle on Tue, 2010-08-24 18:53

    Last week GCC youth from Kalar, Iraq and New York City, U.S. participated in a live video conference. Ahmed from Iraq described the experience saying, "In the end we had a real and honest discussion about the actual problems facing communities around the world today." 

  • Governance in Lebanon

    Submitted by atreuber on Wed, 2010-08-18 19:03
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    Check out a short video detailing youth efforts in Lebanon to resist inneffective governance throughout the country. The clip is part of a longer documentary, also available on YouTube.

     

  • Stories from the Subway

    Submitted by Global Citizen ... on Tue, 2010-08-17 10:47

    For the past three and a half weeks, eight public high school students from Brooklyn, New York performed their student written play, Stories from the Subway for the clients of the Momentum Project who they have been working with over the past three weeks.

     

  • United States Leadership Summit

    Submitted by atreuber on Wed, 2010-08-11 17:07
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    Students from accross the U.S. converged in Portland, Oregon for the Global Citizen Corps Annual Leadership Summit. Check out some photos from their week!

  • GCC Leaders Inspiring Each Other

    Submitted by Sarah Standish on Fri, 2010-07-09 17:23

    On June 22nd, we had the very exciting privilege of witnessing the true power of technology and an excellent example of our ability to take action locally as see the impact globally!

    As part of the Access to Education global action calendar, GCC leaders Sinan, Grant and Sinead gathered in Edinburgh Scotland, to facilitate our first peer education workshop led by video conference with a group of young people at the Action Centre in Portland.

  • Lebanon’s Most Precious Symbol Will Disappear

    Submitted by Sarah Standish on Mon, 2010-07-05 18:36

    Many of the nearly 200 Lebanese youth who gathered to mark the beginning of a campaign against climate change were also Global Citizen Corps leaders, present at an event so big that it attracted the attention of Lebanon’s biggest English-language newspaper, The Daily Star, which reported on the event.


  • Making Globalization a More Human Experience

    Submitted by Sarah Standish on Thu, 2010-06-17 13:27

    Hundreds of volunteers sustain the work of the NGO Global Voices Online, and have done so for years. Why do people from all over the world devote so much time to the organization? Is there some secret to making it work? At the most recent Global Voices Summit, I tried to find out.

     

  • Taking Action for Women's Rights in Kalar

    Submitted by Sarah Standish on Tue, 2010-06-01 17:08

    GCC leaders in Kalar, Iraq have been very active lately! Watch their video to find out more about what they've been working on, from raising awareness about the importance of education to presenting a play about women's rights.

     

  • Global Voices Conference in Chile

    Submitted by Sarah Standish on Fri, 2010-05-28 14:21

    One of the many interesting discussions at the 2010 Global Voices Citizen Media Summit was a discussion about the relationship between youth and media that raised some provocative questions.

  • The Role of Citizen Media in Development Work

    Submitted by Sarah Standish on Fri, 2010-05-28 14:10

    Let’s face it—citizen media projects quite often focus on one of a few common goals, like giving voice to a marginalized people, or freedom of speech, or promoting government transparency. These are all extremely valuable goals, but they’re more concerned with politics than development. Does that mean social media has nothing to offer to development issues, like the ones that Global Citizen Corps leaders work on?

    Of course not! Citizen media can also be very beneficial to development projects, and some of the projects highlighted at the 2010 Global Voices Citizen Media Summit proved that in a number of fields.

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