Youth 4 Global Goals / World's Largest Lesson Cartagena Report

World’s Largest Lesson in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report—

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Overview Summary Lesson Methodology Lesson Preparation Lesson Delivery a. b.

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Challenges & Learnings Results - Outcome Next Steps a. b.

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In Cartagena, Colombia In Bogotá & Icononzo

Global YouthSpeak Forum in Egypt SDGs Curriculum

Partners and Supporters Special thanks World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Photo: Institución Educativa Manzanillo del Mar

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Overview About AIESEC

Overview

We are a global youth-led organization striving to achieve peace and fulfillment of humankind's potential. We develop leadership potential in youth by providing them self-driven, practical and global experiences.

About Youth 4 Global Goals It is an AIESEC Initiative through which we aim to mobilize youth towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

We believe that the global youth is an integral part of the equation to achieve the SDGs.

Why to deliver World’s Largest Lesson?

As AIESEC, we are committed to mobilize young people to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. To make this happen, we start creating awareness & understanding about the importance of each individual contribution. Hosting this lesson is part of the implementation of our Youth 4 Global Goals initiative for 2017.

World’s Largest Lesson is an initiative created by Project Everyone and UNICEF to teach young people and children about Global Goals and encourage them to become the generation that changed the world.

Photo: Institución Educativa Bayunca

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Photo: Institución Educativa Luis Carlos López

Summary The lesson in Cartagena On July 12th, 2017 we mobilized 600 young leaders to deliver World’s Largest Lesson in different schools and foundations of Cartagena, Colombia.

The lesson took place during our Global YouthSpeak Forum, a premiere event that inspires conversations around pressing global issues, within an unique format of Inspire, Engage & Act. The attendees were the facilitators of the workshops, leading the lesson in each official venue.

About Facilitators Profile: Young leaders between 20 and 26 years old from more than 100 countries and territories. Millennials.

In average we had 5 to 6 facilitators per workshop delivered.

About Students Profile: Students from public schools or foundations between 12 and 17 years old from Cartagena, Colombia. Some of them live in poverty or vulnerable population & belong to afro communities.

Watch the aftermovie here.

In facts Total of students reached

2751

Boys

1435

Girls

1316

Average students per workshop

27

Workshops delivered

100

Official venues

12

Foundations

2

Public Schools

10

Partners & Supporters

8

Media coverage

19

Social media reach (people)

301,533

Find here the photos and videos of the lesson.

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Lesson Methodology The lesson was planned with a methodology of “workshop”, encouraging exchange activities and interaction between the facilitators and the students.

It promoted a learning process based on the dialogue and the active participation of the students.

As part of the characteristics of a workshop there are three main elements: objective, defined activities and results. Considering this, we designed an holistic pedagogical framework that could support the delivery of the lesson successfully.

Objective of the Workshop: Create awareness in the students of the schools about their role as global citizens by understanding the Global Goals as a way to contribute for a better local reality and encourage their civic competences.

The lesson aligned to Education Plan in Colombia In collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Colombia, we aligned the content with the National Plan of Education for Peace 2017, working towards strengthen the education sector to advance strategies that contribute to training in citizenship skills and education for peace.

Considering the strategy Mobilization of the Training Plan for Citizenship included in the National Plan that seeks to engage various actors to participate in the construction of peace, we delivered World’s Largest Lesson talking about Sustainable Development Goals as a tool to create awareness in students about their active role as citizens of the world and as main actors to build the common good, and a peaceful and sustainable environment.

Yaneth Giha, Minister of Education attended the opening of the day.

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Lesson Preparation Timeline April

May

June

July

August July 5th

Partners & Supporters

Logistical plan

Virtual training for facilitators

Official venues confirmation

July 10th

July 11th

Training for Training for Spanish speakers volunteers

July 12th

World’s Largest Lesson Delivery

August 1st

Final report

Training for facilitators We offered a virtual training space for our facilitators, it was available one month before the lesson that included 6 sessions: Introduction to World’s Largest Lesson The lesson in Cartagena, Co (Logistics) Understanding the Global Goals Understanding the context in collaboration with Enseña Por Colombia and Cómo vamos Cartagena Tips to deliver the workshop with Professor Jesús Alfredo Olarte Toro Test Yourself (present final test as a check point for general knowledge) The training had 3 live sessions, 2 of them with experts in education and Cartagena reality.

Spanish speakers were main facilitators, we delivered a physical session two days before the lesson to prepare them in terms of logistics, pedagogical flow of the lesson and tips about how to teach kids in collaboration with Teach For All.

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Lesson Delivery in Cartagena Flow of the workshops

Messages delivered

We gave to facilitators a guide to create their own lesson, ensuring they could take ownership creating the content and lesson delivery would be accomplished successfully.

Introduction of facis and purpose Ice breaker activity Storytelling to engage and question them Sharing & discussion space for their ideas Global Goals importance explanation Establish their contribution

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SDGs are 17 goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change.

We need to care about the planet and our city.

We are young, we are the generation that needs to make this happen.

Colombia needs global citizens to live in peace.

12 official venues

10 public schools

The flow was defined with the support of a pedagogy professional.

Each faci created its own story. Sharing their stories was the most powerful moment to change students’ mindset and keep their attention.

Workshops were delivered in 45 - 50 minutes.

Download the pedagogical framework we used.

Watch the video of the flow.

Photo: Colegio Dios Es Amor

2 foundations

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Lesson Delivery in Cartagena Official venues

Institución Educativa Rosedal

Institución Educativa Luis Carlos López

Colegio Dios es Amor

Institución Educativa Bayunca

Institución Educativa Bayunca Sede La Granja

Institución Educativa Manzanillo del Mar

Institución Educativa Ternera

Corporación Instituto Cartagena

Institución Educativa República de Argentina

Institución Educativa Fundación Dones de Fundación Fundación Pies Descalzos Misericordia Photo: Colegio Dios Es Amor Preservemos Colombia

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Lesson Delivery in Cartagena Facilitators sharing "Anyone can learn if they want to”.

Andrea Loayza Facilitator - National Vice President of AIESEC in Bolivia

Photo: Institución Educativa Bayunca

"If we are willing to teach, we are willing to learn”.

Photo: Institución Educativa Bayunca Sede La Granja

Justin Tang Facilitator - National Vice President of AIESEC in Hong Kong

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Lesson Delivery in Cartagena

Our Volunteers We had the support from 16 volunteers. 13 of them traveled with facilitators to the different venues.

The rest supported materials delivery and transportation logistics.

Special thanks to all of them!

Our volunteers: Mauricio Guarguati, M. Victoria Maiguel, Catalina Fuentes, Sharon Goethe, Erick Castro, Leider Blanco, Giselle Charris, José García, Helmut Heins, Natalia Zapata, Jenifer Yance, Daniela Sanjuan, Millyjenn Blanco, Jean C. Gaibao, Dairo Peña, Camilo Serrano & Andrés Bautista.

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Lesson Delivery in Cartagena Agenda of the Global YouthSpeak Forum Day 9:00

Opening

9:45

Keynotes

10:10

Break

10:30

Workshops

12:00

Lunch & Networking

13:00

World’s Largest Lesson Opening

14:00

World’s Largest Lesson Delivery

18:30

Keynote Mindvalley CEO

19:00

Closing

Venue: Hotel Las Américas, Cartagena

During the opening we had the participation of: Eloise Haylor, World’s Largest Lesson leader from Project Everyone.

Viviana Limpias, Deputy Representative of UNICEF Colombia.

Belky Arizala, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

13:00 - 14:00

Opening + training

14:00 - 15:00

Transportation to schools

15:00 - 16:20

Delivery of workshops

16:20 - 17:20

Transportation to venue

17:40 - 18:00

Report from facis and Wrap Up

18:00 - 18:30

Break

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Lesson Delivery in Bogotá & Icononzo Young leaders working for peace In collaboration with the Organization Colombia Origen de Paz, we could delivered simultaneously the lesson in other places in Colombia:

“As a young Colombian social leader I want to look at what is required to lead transformation processes in the 21st century, I have seen that it is necessary to reach those places where no one has gone”.

Juan Sebastian Huertas Olea CEO/ Vicepresident of Public Relations Colombia Origen de Paz

Colegio Bella Vista - Sede B

Veredal Peace Area Antonio Nariño

Profile: students of last High School grade (11th) between 15 and 17 years old.

City: Bogota, D.C.

Profile: Workshop was delivered to ex-combatants of FARC-EP, one of the largest group of rebels, and young students of Escuela Superior de Administración Pública –ESAP– between 19 and 30 years old.

Municipality: Icononzo, Tolima.

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

We believe that the global youth is an integral part of the equation to achieve the SDGs.

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Main challenges & learnings Learnings

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Only main facilitators were spanish speakers. Students are not bilingual, so, our facis had to find different ways to deliver the messages overcoming language barrier.

Time to deliver the workshops in the farest schools was not enough. At least 1 hour is needed. Because of traffic jam in the city, some groups arrived to their venues later than expected.

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Students were at the beginning shy to share their ideas or perceptions.

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Lack of experience to manage students to constantly keep their attention from facilitators.

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We realized that students in Cartagena want to learn about every topic we addressed. Also, that they are aware of their country issues and reality, but need guidance about how to contribute.

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People can be educated about SDGs at a very young age. No need to wait for adulthood.

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There is no such a “language barrier” if you want to deliver a relevant message.

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For students to participate, facilitators need to speak and participate with them, lead by example.

Also, “ice breaker” activities or dividing them into little groups are efficient strategies to deliver the workshop in a better way.

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Include more time for transportation in the agenda and consider in the future follow up with teachers and school leaders.

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Photo: Institución Educativa Ternera

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Results: Students commitments

We gathered more than 2000 commitments of students in Cartagena, where they established their contribution towards different issues connected to Global Goals.

Find here the output: students commitments

[TRANSLATION] “My commitment is to grow up and being baseball professional player.

Study in a huge university.

Find a beautiful woman because of her personality, get my family out of poverty”.

Yeison Fabra Student participant

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Results - Outcome After the lesson delivery, we followed up with principals, teachers and authorities from official venues asking them what changed in students behavior or interaction after attending World’s Largest Lesson. Find out some answers we received: [TRANSLATION FROM ORIGINAL]

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“This is the first time we have a workshop simultaneously. Students really care about SDGs, so we want to continue working on the topic to transcend it and impact the city”.

“The students realized that change is a matter of everyone and that we must all contribute to change the world, today the institution feels grateful to all the organizations allied for the realization of this activity”.

“Students mentioned how useful was for them to learn new things. They want to join AIESEC to make the change.

The teachers noticed the benefits and will continue working on activities related to the same topics”.

Fernando Alberto Guzmán Teacher Institución Educativa República de Argentina [TRANSLATION FROM ORIGINAL]

“Students said it was innovative, really exciting for them. Now, we must reflect to bring the institution to continuous improvement aligned to the SDGs ”.

Daniel Pupo Principal Institución Educativa Manzanillo del Mar [TRANSLATION FROM ORIGINAL]

“All the management team want to continue working on the topic. Students are very interested to know more about SDGs”.

Elvira Mendoza Romero Principal Institución Educativa Rosedal

Liliana Nuñez Regional Coordinator Institución Educativa Fundación Pies Descalzos

Guillermo Ramírez Principal Colegio Dios es Amor

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“Students were very enthusiastic, we are looking to generate a regional alliance with AIESEC, you left a big impact and what we want is that all our beneficiaries continue receiving knowledge regarding how to solve social problems to have a better world”.

Juan Romero Director Fundación Preservemos Colombia

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“Students want you to come back. There are a lot of expectations to continue the project. Students were really excited about the multicultural experience. They never received before a workshop about SDGs, so we want to continue creating projects towards this topic”.

Luz Elena Ocampo Principal Institución Educativa Ternera

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Results: The positive impact We opened the world to students, we changed their mindset: “It has been really shocking. The 18 high school groups were very excited to meet these young volunteers from other countries around the world, visit us from so far and come to this corner of the city to speak directly, personally, about the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Goals are a global priority that must not only be led by the government, the authorities, the big businessmen or the big companies that run the world.

The population to which they are directed must know them, must manage them, acknowledge them. We hope that with this experience we can include the SDGs in our EIP –Educational Institutional Project–, and that we can include them in our curriculum.

AIESEC, with this lesson, is effectively demonstrating that another world is possible and that fraternity, friendship and good relations prevail in the human being and encourage our young people to know the world and travel.

At Institución Educativa Luis Carlos López, we are very grateful, the 1420 families, for this experience that you have allowed us to live. Thank you so much for coming from so many countries and filling our students with dreams for their purposes. Count with the Luis Carlos López house for activities of purposes as nobles as this one”.

German Gómina Principal Institución Educativa Luis Carlos López

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Results: Media coverage We got 19 publications of press releases, articles or content related to the World’s Largest Lesson in Cartagena:

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Cali Buenas Noticias

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Caracol Radio

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Extra.com

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Morocco.shafaqna.com

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Revista DC

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El País Vallenato

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Fundación Pies Descalzos

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Nigeria.shafaqna.com

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UNICEF Blog Connect

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Relief Web

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ASCUN

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La Vibrante

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El Espectador

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Vamos a Andar

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Area Cucuta UNICEF

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Next Steps Global YouthSpeak Forum in Egypt

SDG Curriculum

Each year, during the AIESEC International Congress, the Global YouthSpeak Forum takes place in one full day of the agenda, offering a powerful space to co-create ideas and have conversations towards main global issues between global young leaders from more than 100 countries, businessmen and companies.

Delivering World’s Largest Lesson is just one step to continue activating youth to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

For 2018, Egypt is the country hosting this event, so we are looking forward about how we can continue upscaling our Youth 4 Global Goals initiative within this edition of the Forum.

That’s why we launched the SDG Curriculum.

A toolkit that aims to provide the understanding and needed knowledge regarding each one of the SDGs to further take part of measurable activities and/or projects to achieve the SDGs. By going to the activities and achieving their respective learning outcomes, youth will become key champions of the SDGs to tell everyone about the Goals.

Click here to see the Curriculum

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Photo: Institución Educativa Manzanillo del Mar - Workshop delivered in partnership wtih UNICEF

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Partners & Supporters UNICEF participation

Overview

In partnership with UNICEF Colombia and the support of UNICEF global, we could deliver a more relevant and known World’s Largest Lesson in Cartagena.

Viviana Limpias Deputy Representative of UNICEF Colombia during World’s Largest Lesson Opening

Belky Arizala, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador delivering the lesson.

Giving participation certificate to the teacher leader Héctor Gallego of Institución Educativa Manzanillo del Mar.

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Partners & Supporters UNICEF participation

Overview

"I feel that was me who received the lesson. I really liked the energy of children, young people and their opinions on issues that are serious, such as Sustainable Development Goals, but they see them with a different analysis. It enriches me to see gathered so many people of different cultures, but finally speaking the same language, each one had a proposal, an interest, a conviction and a purpose, and I am glad to know that the lesson was for me, that I am not alone thinking that if it is possible to transform the world. These teenagers and young people taught me that they want to transform the world too, in their own way, and I am very happy to see their steadiness to achieve it.

I was pleased to know that every time the women who are in these groups, know their position in front of the society and like to be independent and want to help. I congratulate AIESEC for having very talented women, who, regardless of their age, are doing great things for society.

I felt very happy and it is an invitation that I will never forget. For me the World's Largest Lesson is that we are not alone and every time the good people is more”.

Belky Arizala Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF Colombia.

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Partners & Supporters Project Everyone participation

Overview

"It was youth take over of the World’s Largest Lesson.

We saw 600 AIESECers teach the Global Goals to thousands of children in Cartagena.

This is a new chapter in the story of World’s Largest Lesson and it’s being written for young people by young people, which is an incredible powerful experience for everyone involved. But this is just the beginning”.

Eloise Haylor World’s Largest Lesson leader Project Everyone

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Partners & Supporters

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Supporters

Official transportation

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Special thanks We want to appreciate the support of the organizations and participants that enable this World’s Largest Lesson happened in Cartagena Colombia: UNICEF - Project Everyone - Ministerio de Educación Nacional Secretaría de Educación Distrital - Enseña Por Colombia - Fundación Terpel - Teach For All - Deloitte - Ochoa Logística y Transporte - AIESEC Team - Facilitators - Students - Official venues (Institución Educativa Rosedal - Institución Educativa Luis Carlos López - Colegio Dios es Amor - Institución Educativa Ternera - Corporación Instituto Cartagena - Institución Educativa República de Argentina - Institución Educativa de Bayunca sede La Granja - Fundación Dones de Misericordia - Institución Educativa de Bayunca - Institución Educativa Manzanillo del Mar - Institución Educativa Fundación Pies Descalzos - Fundación Preservemos Colombia).

World’s Largest Lesson hosted in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report— Hosted by AIESEC - In partnership with UNICEF

Youth For Global Goals Team

Federico Restrepo

Alonso Salazar

Tanya Landysheva

Larissa Demel

Youth for Global Goals Manager

Marketing

Public Relations

Measure of Impact Project

AIESEC International federicor@ai.aiesec.org

AIESEC International alonsos@ai.aiesec.org

AIESEC International tanyal@ai.aiesec.org

AIESEC International larissad@ai.aiesec.org

Activating youth to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Diego Tibamoso

Mei Kok

Laurena Alves

Mayteck Arenas

YouthSpeak Forum Manager

Partnership Manager

Social Media Manager

WLL Project Manager

AIESEC International diegot@ai.aiesec.org

Youth4GG for AP mei.kok@aiesec.net

AIESEC International laurena.alves@aiesec.net

AIESEC International mayteck.arenas@aiesec.net

World’s Largest Lesson in Cartagena, Colombia —Final Report—