Topic: Inspiring Youth
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Numerous educators and youth leaders have begun using these videos to inspire youth. Here are comments from several of them:
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Today I received this email from an educator:
"I introduced your website in a class discussion we had about violence and showed my class the Barrio de Paz video and told them to watch another video and write a paper on it. Because it was not a mandatory assignment, only a handful of students actually did it. The ones who did, expressed a great deal of respect and interest in your work.... "Ok, you have to think 18/19-year old young people from rather conservative and sheltered backgrounds here. That said, as an educator you have to be careful about the material you introduce into your classroom in such an environment. We are asked to not bring religion or anything faith-based into our teaching (but to bring in political agendas is perfectly fine ;-)... the way you guys set it up makes it easy to use for educational purposes. You have done an amazing job in providing interviews from a broad range of faiths, which makes the resources you offer on the website very balanced! "....Naturally, I would love to be able to [implement the Global Oneness Project in the classroom] as fully and thoroughly as I wish, simply because I consider myself a worker for the change - and your material serves to assist those young people, who are going to be carrying the major load of this upcoming shift. These young people need our support because they have a difficult task ahead of them. And they know... subconsciously they know! They know why they came here, and they are longing for these kinds of information and inspirations - yet unfortunately they are trapped in a rather traditional education system that doesn't allow much room for spirituality and the idea of oneness (yet)." |
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Here is an email I received from an educator in Nigeria:
I have watched the DVD in school with my students. The first part titled ‘The Lands Owns Us’ is very moving, and so also the part highlighting the life of ‘gangsters’ in Ecuador. This is clearly a reflection of what we have here in Nigeria, where many young people on the streets of Lagos and the other major cities, sleep under bridges without food, shelter and no means for education. For me, this is partly due to the failure of our governments and leaders to make the correct choices and decisions, and also partly because of corruption, greed and selfishness by all of us. The world is so rich and so blessed with abundance of human and material resources, and yet in the midst of these, majority of the world's population still wallop in ignorance, poverty and disease. As we all put in our modest efforts, we all hope that the world will become a better place. I have a wonderful group of students here. After watching the DVD, some of them have become so inspired, like myself, and are thinking of doing something very similar. They are interested in taking shots of both beautiful and ugly spots in Jos and sharing with you and with their colleagues. |
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