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Table of Contents Mission.............................................................3 Program Schedule ..........................................4 Keynote Speakers............................................5 Workshop Information.....................................6
Workshop Overview..........................................11
ISY Campus Overview......................................12 Participating Schools & Students....................13
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MISSION
YGIN 2014 GLOBAL ISSUES NETWORK has as its mission: to help students realize they can make a difference by empowering them to work internationally with their peers to develop solutions for global issues. The GIN program is based upon High Noon: Twelve Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them by Jean-François Rischard, former World Bank Vice-President for Europe. Rischard describes imminent issues that can only be solved through global cooperation. Among these are water shortages, global warming, environmental degradation, infectious diseases, poverty, illiteracy, depletion of fisheries, peacekeeping, and the loss of ecosystems. Rischard notes that the existing institutions charged with addressing such issues, namely nation-states, government departments and international organisations, are self-serving, cumbersome and inadequate for the task. He calls for an alternative model of global governance based upon independent global networks that are flexible and super-responsive. International schools already represent a network of independent organisations that co-ordinate their worldwide efforts toward a common purpose, and are therefore an excellent platform to apply Mr Rischard’s concepts. Students can be encouraged to think systemically about real issues while also taking action to improve the human condition. This approach involves collaboration rather than competition, where students assume leadership of their own programme. Their network should promote both face-to-face conferences and on-going communication via the latest technologies.
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PROGRAM SCHEDUlE SATURDAY MARCH 22
TIME
VENUE
EVENT
8:00
ISY Steps
Arrival + T-Shirt Exchange
Black Box Theatre
Welcome Speech (Mr. Plisinski, ISY Director) Performance #1 Nyi Nyi (Spoken Word Poetry) Keynote Speech #1 Ms. Parsa Sanjana
8:15
9:15
SIMULATION
MPR
10:15 10:30
BREAK-TIME Workshop Session 1
Classrooms
- Yangon Heritage Trust (D201) - Yangon Animal Shelter (D202) - Sounds and Steps (D203) - ISY Microloans (E203) - Wanna Aung (E301) - ISM Community Service (E305)
11:30
Canteen/Upper Court
12:30 Black Box Theatre 1:30
Classrooms
LUNCH and NGO Fair Performance #2 Kevin Koko (Vocal Performance) Keynote Speech #2 Dr. Yin Yin Nwe Workshop Session #2
- Wanna Aung (E301) - Pomelo (D202) - Terre des Homes (D203) - CISV (E203) - Proximity Designs (E303) - Help Portrait (E304) - MYME (D201) 2:30 2:45
BREAK-TIME Classrooms
Workshop Session #3
- Akhaya Women (D201) - Proximity Design (E303) - Ms. Anna Little (E301) - Mr. Roughneen (E203) - Operation Smile (D203) - T-Net (D202)
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3:45
MPR
4:30
ISY Field
CLOSING SESSION Group Photo
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ms. Parsa Sanjana Parsa Sanjana is an international health specialist with over 10 years of experience in health program management and public health planning, programming, budgeting, and implementation. Parsa has supported the management and implementation of a range of HIV and AIDS programs, including prevention, care and treatment. She is currently Deputy Director of Program Implementation of the Global Fund grants managed by Save the Children-Myanmar where she is responsible for overseeing the implementationof HIV, TB and malaria programs under the GF grants. Prior to this role, while based in Zambia with FHI, she led the expansion of FHI’s care and treatment program to support HIV/AIDS services at over 200 public health facilities, working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Her extensive
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Dr. yin yin nwe With over two decades’ experience of working in over forty countries, Dr Yin Yin Nwe is the only Myanmar woman to have achieved a senior leadership position in the United Nations system. She works in English, French and Indonesian in addition to Bamar/Burmese. Since 2012, she has been supporting Myanmar’s reform in a pro bono capacity as (a) Member, National Economic and Social Advisory Council (NESAC), (b) Special Advisor, Myanmar Peace Centre and (c) Advisor, Myanmar Government’s Education Reform. Her doctorate is from Cambridge University, England. Before 1988, she was Lecturer/Associate Professor at Yangon University.
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WORKSHOP INFORMATION Akhaya Women
(Workshop Session 3/Location: D201)
Akhaya Women is a local initiative, led by and for women. Akhaya Women provides the tools and support mechanisms necessary for women in Myanmar to challenge gender stereotypes, to bring gender equality into their family homes and communities, and to campaign for a safer and more equal environment for women to live in. Akhaya also works with parents and children to create a gender balanced environment within the home and to support young children to develop to their full potential through early learning opportunities. Akhaya has an existing and growing women-led social business initiative, which aims, in the long term, to provide enough income to maintain and expand Akhaya operations, and to provide the women involved with a decent income.
Anna little
(Workshop Session 3/Location: E301)
Anna Little is a British self-shooting/editing, qualified broadcast journalist and video producer based in Myanmar. She is currently freelancing as a camerawoman/editor for the BBC, as well as studying a distance Environment degree with the Open University. Since 2000 Anna has worked in Europe, Africa and Asia for various media including Reuters and APTN. The workshop will be interactive – she will explain the process of producing a story and show the delegates a television news package that she produced, shot and edited. She will then ask them to imagine they are journalists covering a story on an environmental issue in Myanmar – they’ll tell me where they would look for information, who their sources would be, who they would interview and what they would shoot.
CISV
(Workshop Session 2/Location: E203)
CISV International is a global organization dedicated to educating and inspiring for peace through building inter-cultural friendship, cooperation and understanding. In over 60 years we have given countless children and young people the experience of their lives and the opportunity to build lasting friendships through our international educational programmes. We offer an exciting blend of seven international camp-based, family exchange and local community programmes. We aim to help our participants develop the skills they need to become informed, responsible and active global citizens and make a difference in their communities and the world. The glue that underpins all of our programmes is friendship, in line with our founding belief that peace is possible through friendship and mutual understanding. 6
HELP PORTRAIT
(Workshop Session 2/Location: E304)
A photo with family and friends can last a lifetime. Orphans, poor families, they’re in need of food, money, shelter… but this does not cover all of their emotional needs. For many parents in Myanmar, to have the funds to take a professional picture of the children they are proud of is rare. Help Portrait tries to fix this problem. A group of students from international schools work together to provide families a memory they can hold onto for generations.
ISY MICROLOANS
(Workshop Session 1/Location: E203)
The ISY Microloans group has been working to alleviate poverty by introducing and promoting stable incomes. We offer microloans to small businesses/individuals (who aren’t eligible for bank loans), in an effort to help them achieve their goals and ultimately overcome poverty and financial instability. Come and learn more about our group’s goals and actions; you will have the chance to participate in stimulating discussions and simulations! (Delegates who belong to Microloans groups in other schools or wish to initiate such groups, are highly encouraged to come to our workshop as we hope to provide a forum for solutions and discuss the possibility of collaborative projects).
ISM COMMUNITY SERVICE
(Workshop Session 1/Location: E305)
Have you ever stared into the eyes of a little orphan? What do you see? What he wants, what he needs but what he cannot get. We are a group that provides orphans, nuns, monks, local school students, and villagers in the Delta with the bare necessities that life has deprived them of. We devote our time and affection to help people strive towards a better future. Come to our workshop if you want to see how you, as an individual, have the power to make a difference in people’s lives. (Simulation included) (20 people max)
MYME
(Workshop Session 2/Location: D201)
The Mobile Myanmar Education Project aims to provide education via mobile classrooms to children in Myanmar (Burma) who’ve been compelled into indentured servitude at teashop restaurants where they’re forced to work long hours every day in order to sustain their families. The mobile classrooms provide these children an opportunity to learn basic literacy, math and computer skills in a safe environment where they can gain self-confidence and develop critical thinking skills through innovative, interactive instruction. We believe that every child in Myanmar (Burma) has the right to access quality education. Education is a critical step toward alleviating poverty and the abuses associated with child labor.
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Operation smile
(Workshop Session 3/Location: D203)
The ISY Operation Smile group is affiliated to the official NGO & international charity: Operation Smile, which works to provide free surgeries for children born with facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates. We believe that all children deserve to live their lives with dignity. And for those suffering from cleft lip, cleft palate or other facial deformities, dignity begins with a smile. Operation Smile volunteers work worldwide to repair childhood facial deformities by delivering safe, effective surgery and related medical care directly to patients. Hundreds of thousands of children are still suffering from facial deformities. Worse, children are dying every day simply because they lack the access to safe surgical care which would change their lives forever. Join our workshop and learn more about our group, the problems we have overcome, and future initiatives that we hope to succeed in!
Pomelo
(Workshop Session 2/Location: D202)
Pomelo provides a fair trade marketplace for small Burmese producers, opening opportunities for them to improve their social and economic situation. The organization is committed to using local materials and local artisans to produce quality, handmade products with a contemporary twist. Their producers include HIV sufferers, street youths, the mentally and physically disabled and small family businesses fighting poverty.
Proximity designs
(Workshop Session 2 & 3/Location: E303)
Proximity Designs is an award-winning social enterprise that is based in Myanmar. We design and deliver affordable, income-boosting products and services that compliment the entrepreneurial spirit of rural families. If you’re interested in renewable energy technology, human-centered design, or rural financing, come learn about what Proximity does, how we do it, and how we’re transforming within this dynamic landscape.
Simon roughneen
(Workshop Session 3/Location: E203)
Simon Roughneen has reported from Southeast Asia since 2007, based in Yangon since 2013. He has reported from across Africa, as well as Haiti, India, Kosovo, Pakistan, and more recently, Lebanon. He writes for publications such as The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The Irrawaddy, The Edge Review, Nikkei Asian Review. An archive of his articles can be seen at www.simonroughneen.com.
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Sounds and Steps
(Workshop Session 1/Location: D203)
Sounds and Steps is an interactive group that centers on the teaching of dance to deaf children. We also work together to fund-raise and raise awareness about the difficulties faced by disabled children, through innovative and creative means ranging from tie-dying to baking.
Terre des Hommes
(Workshop Session 2/Location: D203)
Journey of Life: A Tool for Reintegrating Children in Street Situations with their families Terre des Hommes is an international charitable humanitarian federation which concentrates on children’s rights, founded in 1960 by Edmond Kraiser in Lausanne, Switzerland. Terre des Hommes campaigns for a more equitable relationship between the countries of the northern and southern hemispheres, without racial, religious, political, cultural or sex-based discrimination. Terre des Hommes has been working in Myanmar to help children living in government care facilities to return to their families. We enhance their protection through training and mentoring of State Social Workers. More than 300 children have been reunited with their families and reintegrated in their communities. The two themes that Terre des Hommes are currently addressing in Myanmar are ‘Trafficking, abuse and exploitation’ and ‘Child Protection Systems’..
T-net
(Workshop Session 3/Location: D202)
Teaching Network, T-Net, initially started as a small tutoring group known as KoteKhine Community Service. several years after the establishment of Kotekhine community service group, the goals of the group was broadened; from tutoring at one monastery to tutoring at a lot more locations and funding kids to go to school. In order to prevent the parents from not sending the kids to school due to financial setbacks, T-Net will fund bright young children all throughout their primary grade school. T-Net is currently tutoring in different locations, but T-Net’s ultimate goal is to give a chance for kids who want to learn and attend school.
Wanna Aung
(Workshop Session 1 & 2/Location: E301)
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Yangon Animal Shelter
(Workshop Session 1/Location: D202)
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.” –Einstein The Yangon Animal Shelter is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue and care of stray animals. Our goal is to help animals that are homeless, sick, injured or under threat of poisoning. Our goal is to spay/neuter, vaccinate and try to find them loving adoptive homes. Currently, the shelter has an estimate of 200 dogs that are in need of a family. If you’re interested in learning how you as an individual can help and support the dogs in need, come join us.
Yangon Heritage Trust
(Workshop Session 1/Location: D201)
Since it was founded in March 2012 by Dr Thant Myint-U and a group of like-minded architects, business people, historians, and others, the Yangon Heritage Trust has been dedicated to preserving the city’s unique architectural legacy. Its aims including the protection and promotion of Yangon’s urban heritage and character within a cohesive urban plan by advocating for heritage protection, advising the government and developers on heritage issues, and undertaking preservation projects, studies, conferences, and training. We believe that the conservation of Yangon’s rich architectural heritage plays a vital role in making Yangon one of the most livable and vibrant cities in Asia. As part of our mission, we will advocate for heritage protection, develop policy options, advise the government, present our ideas to the public, undertake specific conservation projects, facilitate training, and organize studies and conferences.
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OVERVIEW OF WORKSHOPS
(Workshop Location : Workshop Name)
WORKSHOP SESSION 1 D201 : Yangon Heritage Trust D202 : Yangon Animal Shelter D203 : Sounds and Steps E203 : ISY Microloans E301 : Wanna Aung E305 : ISM Community Service
WORKSHOP SESSION 2 D201 : MYME D202 : Pomelo D203 : Terre des Hommes E203 : CISV E301 : Wanna Aung E303 : Proximity Designs E304 : Help Portrait
WORKSHOP SESSION 3 D201 : Akhaya Women D202 : T-Net D203 : Operation Smile E203 : Simon Roughneen E301 : Anna Little E303 : Proximity Design
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ISY CAMPUS OVERVIEW
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PARTICIPATING
SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS ISM
ISY
Ring Naw Yea Eun Valarie Phyu Hnin Nobel Ching Ching Jonathan Soham Nick Rebecca Yam Yam Yamin Thiha Aung Pan Pan Britney Min Ji Maro Eaindray Thu Thu Michelle Sally Raven Jessica Eui Joon Theresa Aanchal Steven Hah Sithu Latt Ngwe Zin Oo Rachel Hein Moe Prarthana Venkatesh Kaung Myat Kiefer Marcel Aung Myo Htet Okkar Henry Yang Andrew Aathira Aung Kyaw Ratna Jeff Dhruv Kelvin Ingyin Swan Anthony Patrick Stephanie Kevin Cassey Kennis Yelim Su Hnin Crystal Nadia Leo Thurein Shamyi Arrman Kaung Thiha Theresa Cristina Harry Carrie ISY Myat Yuri Elvis Nick Sturmey Thiri Parsa Daw Khine Maw Khine Pascal ISM Shwe Aung Mayli Sophie Sakura Todd Davis Pamela Kaung YIS Lin Hay Thi Vidushi Dona Fer Thomas Ananta Dylan Moe Myat Mary Niharika Devu Ye Na Vivian Taing Nandi Aung Jasmine Mi Jin Sandy Chris Ong
SUPERVISORS
YIS Sary Pyi Theim Kyaw Aron Janessa Charles Sai Lyan Ash Peter Theresa Zin Shwe Yi Sophie Co Co Suzin Chloe Henry Amy Ivy Jenny In Wook Min Thaw Sam Myint Myat Zach Stella Jeremy
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