Some interesting stuff

This picture really affected me. I first saw it at a recent student conference I attended with some of my students at Bishop O'Byrne High School, and Googled it right away on my cell phone. This picture captures the humanity that many people are capable of, but at the same time, the inhumanity that we are living with and letting continue on. I am taking an online class right now from Taking It Global (www.tiged.org) on Global Education. I became cognizant that I need to start referring to these problems not as their problems, or even our problems, but as the world's problems. So this picture is kind of a contradiction because it does depict a problem in Africa, as it illustrates a problem that exists on the other side of the world. However, looking deeper into it, the hands symbolize those of human beings, and as simple as that, we human beings have a problem.

Next week, the social justice club at Father Lacombe High School, with the help of my grade 10 class, is going to embark on an ambitious campaign of spreading awareness on the Famine in the Horn of Africa. I hope it is successful, and so proud of what the students are doing.