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October 01, 2007
Celebrating Cultural Diversity - GKA kids featured in the Weekender
Once again, GKA's approach to global citizenship was taken up by the press. The Weekender's feature story "Celebrating Cultural Diversity" in the early September edition included a piece about Global Kids Academy students establishing and continuing a pen pal relationship with children in Cambodia. Please click below to see the article.
Excerpt from September 1 edition of Weekender Japan article "Celebrating Cultural Diversity"
Global Kids Academy
The future of the world depends on the education of our children. Global Kids Academy's mission is to provide a rich and nurturing environment for language acquisition and development so that our children have the tools to make a difference in tomorrow's world.
Ransho (seven) and Vary are asking each other about family. Joe (nine) and Soben are talking about sports. Kira (six) and Yorn are exchanging information about school. Ransho, Joe, and Kira are students in the after school program of Global Kids Academy (GKA). Vary, Soben, and Yorn are students of a rural school in Cambodia. Though separated by thousands of miles and vast differences in circumstance, they are able to communicate and share so much. The children are email pen pals, thanks to an internet connection via satellite.
It all started when Michael (13) went to Cambodia over spring break.
He traveled to a school over 200km from the capital by jeep, taking video messages and letters from GKA students. When they returned, emails arrived and the pen pal system came to life. The interaction has made the GKA kids aware of issues like malaria and lack of books. Money has been raised for mosquito nets and now, the kids are planning a readathon to help raise money for a library. “Understanding others” is something that the children at GKA do everyday. To find out more about Global Kids Academy see: www.globalkidsacademy
Posted by mika at October 1, 2007 11:55 AM
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