Earth Scouts has started up again and this year we are focusing on the human rights unit. So far we had one meeting in which we tried to provide a little overview of what we’ve done the last two years, and then we moved on to some general information of what human rights is all [...]
a journey to ten thousand villages
October 9th, 2010
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Tags: earth scouts · learning · photos · social responsibility · sustainability · tours · world culture
oppressor and victim, victim and murderer?
August 20th, 2010
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Paradise Now directed by Hany Abu-Assad is the kind of film that reminds one that the story we hear in western media is but one story, and an aggregate political one at that. It is not the story of individuals–of the people living in the midst of daily conflict, of occupation, oppression, and fear. This [...]
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who knew that $320 can get you a llama, a goat, chicks, and bees
May 24th, 2010
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What a day! Our Earth Scouts group finished up their unit on Economic Justice today earning two badges–one for the unit and a smaller one for the reading fundraiser that they have been working on for the past several months. The reading fundraiser, called Read to Feed, was part of our work to raise money [...]
Tags: animals · earth scouts · service-learning · social responsibility · sustainability · volunteering · world culture
