Examples

Wondering what kind of global issues we’re looking for?
Here are a few real examples of how high school students are addressing global issues.

• Forming a student group against genocide that reaches out to world policy makers, educates local communities, and raises money for humanitarian projects around the world.
• Creating a sister school program with a high school in a developing country to promote cross-cultural understanding.
• Putting together an album of artwork by orphaned girls in China and selling it to raise money for their education.
• Setting up an e-mail correspondence program between high school students in Iran and the United States to encourage cross-cultural understanding.
• Setting up coffee machines at school that sell fair-trade coffee and donating the proceeds to organizations that fight poverty.