iEARN participants around the world are Making a Difference on MAD Day!
Posted on October 28, 2014
On the last Tuesday in October each year, iEARN youth, educators and coordinators around the world are participating in MAD (Make A Difference) Day by giving back to their local communities through community service and sharing their Collaboration Centre projects with others. In 2014, MAD Day is being held on October 28.
Visit the iEARN Facebook Page and MAD (Make a Difference Day) Facebook Page to see some of the events happening around the world, including:
Tunisia
In Tunisia, TEARN (iEARN-Tunisia) organized a “1000 vote flowers“ event in Sfax as a sensitizing campaign. As Tunisia voted on October 26th to elect its first Democratic Assembly after the Constitution, TEARN thought it was highly important to take part in this national event.
Students under 18 who don’t have the right to vote yet, bought 1000 roses and walked around the city and offered them to older people, urging them to vote.
Also in Tunisia, participants organized a Caps of Love Campaign. On September 20th, the team organized a campaign to collect as many plastic caps as possible to give to a myopathy association so that they could send them to a recycling company and in return get a new wheel chair. They managed to collect more than one hundred kilos of plastic caps within five weeks, and distributed flyers to school mates to sensitize them to the event. They also made posters, performed short plays about community service, and wrote poems and sang songs.
Taiwan
Nanzhi Senior High students launched a campaign "Say No to Plastic Bags!" to invite teachers and students at school to bring bags with them while shopping instead of using another new one. All of the participants were required to record the number of bags they saved for a week. For the last week, around 85 people participated in this activity and 815 plastic bags were saved. After announcing the result they performed a show about how albatrosses died because they took plastic bags as food, which had put these beautiful creature in great danger.
In Taiwan, NSLI-Y students from the United States on program in Taiwan went with an iEARN-Taiwan school to visit Hondao Senior Citizen's Welfare Fundation and gave pineapple cakes they did with National Shan-Hua Senior High School students to grandparents, and played and ate together. And of course, we promised them to see them soon in next month!
Pakistan
In Pakistan, students at Bloomfield Hall School in Lahore celebrated Fun Day with SOS children to make them feel honoured, and during the second phase, they collaborated with Johar Town Campus to clean a littered plot outside the school to beautify the area and raise awareness about protecting the environment.
United States
In the United States, the iEARN-USA team visited Denton Avenue Elementary School in New York, where fifth graders and their second grade buddies performed a song ...We can make a difference ... for the school and then created messages of inspiration to post around the school building. And, in Illinois, students from a readers theatre performed for a local retirement living center. In Miami, students cleaned garbage out of the ocean.
Romania
In Romania, Cornelia Platon, iEARN-Romania Coordinator and Facilitator of the Folk Costumes Project, and her students hosted a special event at Liceu Alexandru Papiu Ilarian Dej School to share about iEARN and the project and invite others to join.
Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the iEARN team and Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program alumni, Saint Joseph School, and the Our Rivers, Our World Project team are carrying out roof top gardening activities throughout Dhaka.
Yemen
In Sana'a, the iEARN team worked to remind people about the importance of keeping the environment clean and safe, and made a presentation to the Seeds institute for 52 students & teachers. They talked about respecting dustmen and helping them to protect themselves against dangerous things found in the garbage. They also shared pictures through web applications such as WhatsApp and Facebook to make more people aware people of their message.
MAD Day activities also took place in Syria, Cameroon, Argentina and Qatar.
