Slide 1 : “ Within each of us resides the power and courage to choose the most positive thoughts, words, and actions in each situation... We need only choose.”
Unknown Author
Slide 2 : Today,
We have the choice to acknowledge our
impact.
We have the choice to seize a moment
and live it to its fullest.
We have the choice to be aware of
what surrounds us.
To realize the need and consequences
of our actions,
the opportunities available to each of us.
We have the choice of taking or leaving. Some do not have that choice…
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Slide 18 : now stop … and think Would you have thought the same if …… … or had been to these places yourselves? What if you knew the people in these pictures? about what you just saw…
Slide 19 : If before she was a delegate you met at a conference…
Slide 20 : 2000, Athens, Greece You had seen him training perfectly normally before…
Slide 21 : 2003, outside Baghdad, Iraq The man in the cage was your brother… And you had met the soldier…
Slide 22 : 2004, Kampala, Uganda Your cousin was waiting for a test result…
Slide 23 : December 2004, Sri Lanka She’s your aunt and the rest of the family is gone…
Slide 24 : 2005, Nkomazi, South Africa This was where the family water supply came from…
Slide 25 : 2004, Russia/Tchetchenia You saw this kid going to school in the morning
Slide 26 : 2004, Darfur, Sudan You visited this perfectly normal African village a year ago…
Slide 27 : 2005, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti You came back home and this was your city…
Slide 28 : Safety drill in Chernobyl contamination zone, April 2006, Ukraine Your child just got cancer from nuclear radiation…
Slide 29 : April 2006, Katmandu, Nepal The police have just beaten your friend…
Slide 30 : April 2006, Bulgaria Your house is underwater…
Slide 31 : April 2006, N’djamena, Tchad Half your friends have been abducted for a guerilla army
Slide 32 : April 2006, Tel Aviv, Israel You would have been blown up if you had arrived on time for the bus
Slide 33 : July 2006, Bombay, India You haven’t heard from your dad who commutes by train in Mumbai…
Slide 34 : What kind of world do we live in?
Slide 35 : Today’s problems are more global… More connected… And more complex… Than ever…
Slide 36 : Something has to change…
Slide 37 : Global Problems
Slide 38 : Global Solutions
Slide 39 : Someone has to change it… If something has to change…
Slide 40 : Think about it …
Slide 41 : Are we creating change as a the youth?
Slide 42 : Globalisation
In a list of the top 100 economic powers
…51 are corporations Environment
… 2% of the world is forest Health
More than 40 Million people are living with HIV/AIDS Hunger
… Almost 800 million people do not have food Education
… 1 out of every 5 adults is illiterate Poverty
… Over 1 billion people live on less than 1 US dollar a day Children
Every minute, 50 children are born in poverty
Slide 43 : Democracy
… 62% of states are democratic. NGO Sector
… 2,091 NGO’s hold consultative status at the UN. Energy
… 11.5% of energy production comes from
renewable energy sources Technology
… 214 countries are connected to the internet. Wealth
… World Economic Output tripled in the past 25 years.
Slide 44 : Are you now thinking about… Where What How Why Who When YOUR contribution to our world?