GLOBAL GOALS BLOGS

All of the blogs featured on this page have been written by students from around the world who have taken part in our GSL Global Goals Competition.

Every article tells a story of incredible young people who are creating positive social change in their communities. Click on a photo below to read the blog of your choice.

Friends to Friends

Poverty and education are two global issues and although in Turkey and in many parts of the world people have developed ways to prevent poverty and provide better education, these two subjects together are very dangerous tools against society itself. Safe in the knowledge that our school has already been successfully involved in social projects that focused on helping students with disadvantaged backgrounds, our project this year is built upon 3 goals: “No Poverty”, “Quality education” and “Eliminating the Inequalities”.

Well of hope | The Journey

Our project is a nonprofit organization which collects donations through the donation boxes that we spread in our school, after collaborating with "The Red Crescent" and getting permission from the school itself. We aim to dig wells in the world's driest areas. We are also focused on spreading awareness on water issues around the world by giving facts and quotes through our social media accounts and hanging pieces of information around the school.

Recycling into the New Year

Every day, the trash collected in the 230 trash cans at ISB are taken out by Sodexo workers and transported to the school dumpsite. There are two kinds of trash cans that we have: labeled “recycling” and “other”. These trash cans, being relatively small, are overflowing at lunchtimes in student-dense locations, mainly near the school entrances and cafeteria.

Getting into the green scene

People are not amply aware of the environmental corruption that we’re going through and its negative consequences. Thus in our project, we are aiming to raise awareness by fulfilling a gap in our local market. Reusable fabric bags will be sold at symbolic prices in grocery stores.

The Inclusive Cafe

In our CAS project, we aim to raise money to help Saraswati Learning Centre build a cafe which will serve as a workplace for the special needs young adults so they can develop collaboration skills as well developing skills within a work environment.

JCTA

We've noticed that in our local community (school), there is a lot of plastic waste (that often doesn't gets recycled) and leftover food during break time (banana peels, oranges, mandarins and more) because of a student or worker's negligence. To combat this, we've decided to start collecting any plastic containers from around the school, so that we can clean them and use to grow onions.

FOOD FOR ALL!

In the AFS PeaceJam club, our focus has been to reduce food waste on campus. We are trying to collaborate with an organisation and redistribute the food that is left unconsumed in our dining hall. We have received a generous donation of containers after contacting local businesses and are now trying to determine the amount of food available for donations on a weekly basis.

Swans Energy Savers

I am very satisfied with the progress of our project throughout the months. I have met new people working on this project and I have increased my ability to work in a team of different ages collaboratively. In this case, our inspiration has been a brilliant and intelligent student of our school, who had the great idea of reducing the electricity bill of our school by removing and covering with informative posters

If we can have it they should have it!!!

We are a group of students from St Andrews international high school situated in Blantyre Malawi. As students we understand the importance and the need for education. Which is why we have chosen quality education as we have seen that many people in our community don't have the chance to go to school and if the do the environment in which the are forced to learn is terrible, We have seen these conditions and as a fellow learner we feel it is right to give the people the education the they deserve.

CRIMINALISE WAR

War is a phenomenon that is common today and in the past. The Effects of War can be very devastating in any given nation. Countries and states that experience or go through war may need a lot of time to recover from its effects. The devastating effects of war may include death, injuries, loss of families, disruption of economic activities and emotional trauma among others.

Nutrition For a Better Future!

Through our project, we hope to be able to provide a solution for malnutrition and health issues prevalent within a large majority of Indonesia’s population. In doing research, we have found that more than 8.4 million Indonesian children suffer from chronic malnutrition.

Tiny School Movement Aim to Create a Big Movement

Our group, Tiny School Movement, have identified that in our local community, of not only Jakarta but the area around it struggle to provide education, especially in a comfortable environment. Our big goal is to build part of a school for a community that is unable to do so on their own, but our main focus at the moment is helping SMP Diponegoro

JOIN GLOBAL SOCIAL LEADERS

If you have any questions about our projects or how your school can join the GSL movement please click here to chat with our team or email social.leaders@future-foundations.co.uk.