Arcese’s Post

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." – Nelson Mandela In Likoni, classrooms are filled with children whose dreams are as big as their potential. Every lesson, every question, and every new discovery brings them one step closer to building the future they envision. 📚✨ These students may not have everything they need yet, but they have something even more powerful—curiosity, determination, and the belief that education can change their world. 🌍💡 At Hope for Hope, we believe in empowering the youth of Likoni by providing access to education and digital skills. 💻📖 As we support these bright minds, we know that every step toward education is a step toward a stronger, brighter future. As they sit together, side by side, learning and growing, they remind us that the journey to a better tomorrow begins with each child’s chance to learn today. 🌟 Let’s celebrate their hard work, and continue supporting the education that will help them soar to new heights. Together, we’re lighting the path to a brighter future, one lesson at a time. ✨🚀 #hopeineducationstartswithyou #HopeForHope #EducationForAll #EmpoweringFutures #LearningTogether #HopeInEduc

ofi Vietnam's Yearly Education Support (YES) program gave away scholarships to 165 students recently worth over 600 Million VND. These students are children of our employees from our Dong Nai branch that have done well in their exams. At ofi, we believe in the power of raw potential – of nature, ingredients, ideas and people. Together, all of us have a role to play in nurturing leaders of tomorrow who will shape our future, to us that starts with doing our part to better equip children with the right skills and knowledge – providing that added bit of motivation and access to resources – for them to #BeTheChange and make their dreams real. In Valerio Pietrapertosa, Plant Operations Head at Dong Nai Branch’s speech to children of our employees during the presentation ceremony, he shared that “any scholarship is just the first step, and your continued drive to do your best, study well, and desire to learn more is what will make the difference. To our employees, continue to work hard and support your children’s growth, just as we want to grow our business together. Let us continue to lead by example and inspire the generations to come.” Partnering to make positive choices for change is what our YES program is about and we believe in the benefits of starting our children off on the right foot. Together wih our local government and community partners, YES will award 358 scholarships to children across Vietnam, totaling 1,2 Billion VND. #ofiVietnam #makeitreal #ChoicesforChange #ofiYES

Chugachmiut is excited to announce that our Education Department has received a $5.8 million Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This five-year grant will fund the Chugach Identity Project to support Alaska Native high school students in grades 9-12. By fostering resilience and cultural identity through social-emotional learning activities, the project will serve 75 students in rural and remote schools, including those in the Native Village of Nanwalek and Qutekcak Native Tribe in Seward, Alaska. The Chugach Identity Project will adapt the Identity Project curriculum and educator program using Sugpiaq and Eyak traditions. Materials from this project will be openly available to the public to encourage educational innovation and equity. Students enrolled in these classes will strengthen their cultural connections, enhance their academic engagement, and develop storytelling skills rooted in their heritage. We are excited to collaborate with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and the Identity Project to deliver this program. Additionally, we are working with Dr. Heather Gordon and the Alaska Technology Development Group to evaluate its effectiveness. #chugachmiut #chugachregion CC Paul McDonogh Heather Sauyaq Jean Kwamboka Gordon, PhD (Iñupiaq) Alesandra Zsiba The Identity Project

Having attended the Te Whakarōputanga Kaitiaki Kura o Aotearoa - New Zealand School Boards Association conference over the past few days, it was hugely inspiring to connect with so many passionate volunteers, that give up significant amounts of time to help our young people achieve their potential. One thing that sits top of mind, is that our children starting school education in the next year, will not complete their studies until 2038. It is challenging to consider what our world may look like from a political, economic, social and environmental perspective in 14 years, but the one thing we can all do is make decisions with this generation in mind, knowing that the action we take will for better or worse, have resulted in the world they transition into. #bethechange, #makedecisionsfortomorrow

BE THE AGENT OF CHANGE This would be the title I would give to today's speech by His Excellency Jakaya Kikwete 4th President of United Republic of Tanzania during the Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development's (UONGOZI Institute ) 7th graduation ceremony. I had three key takeaways from the speech. First, be a legacy. In everything you undertake, ensure people remember that someone was here and made this. Sharing his experience with the Harvard Ministerial Program, where he is a member of the steering committee, he said a leader should have a legacy board to note down their legacy goals and make a checklist. This will help reduce being a routine leader. The second takeaway is about education against poverty. Education is not a way to escape poverty; it is a way to fight it. Thus, leadership is about confronting poverty head-on, confronting challenges head-on, and leading from the front. Fighting poverty through continuous learning is crucial for leaders. Literature carries weight in any leader's success. Nowadays, people spend a lot of time on phones reading nonsense; a leader should not be one of them. A leader should be a lifelong student, continually learning and staying on top of situations in the workplace. The third takeaway is "It can be done, play your part" — Mwal. Nyerere, "Yes we can" — Barack Obama. With strong leadership, progress is achievable. As a leader, your role is crucial in the achievement of your organization, society, and nation at large. The bonus takeaway worth mentioning is about not neglecting the boy child. Here, I will quote his words so we can understand well: "I was speaking to some women leaders. I said, 'Look here, women, you focus so much on the girl child. Don't forget the boy child; you are their mothers too.'" "Giving a girl child prominence is important, but for particular circumstances, we have to push them. However, we should not forget the boy child. Please let us prioritize girl child education without neglecting boy child opportunities for education. If we don't take care of them, it will become a problem someday." We should consider this so that in the years to come, we won't have to make another effort to empower men. I took these lessons as the best takeaways because I feel they were all beyond his written speech, and I can say they are worthwhile. The repeated use of the word "please" after each takeaway shows he speaks from his vast knowledge and experience in leadership. We should put these into practice if you are a leader, an aspiring leader, or even a personal leader. Here's a grammatically corrected version of the article https://lnkd.in/dCm5itmD

Empowering Young Minds, Giving Hope to the Hopeless and, Building a Brighter Future!✨💖 Today, I had the privilege of carrying out a peacebuilding project at a local primary school in Ibadan, Oyo State, reaching out to students from Nursery to Primary 6 from underprivileged backgrounds. Our mission was to inspire and empower these young minds to believe that their background does not define their destiny. We aimed to instill confidence in them, showing them that a brighter future is within their reach. We further encouraged them to focus on their education, avoid any violent acts, and be very optimistic about life. Together with my team members, we drive some positive affirmations into them and also encourage them with practical life experiences of people who came from an humble background, but despite that, became so great in life. In collaboration with Becky G Foundation, we provided writing materials to every one of them, including books, pens, pencils, erasers, and sharpeners. Watching their faces light up with Joy, hope, and determination was a truly humbling experience. It's moments like these that remind us of the power of small acts of kindness and the impact they can have on young lives. Let's continue to support and uplift our young people, helping them build a future that's full of promise and possibility. Only with this can we achieve sustainable peace in our society. University of Ibadan United States Institute of Peace Abdulsalami Abubakar Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development Studies VOICE OF PEACE ADVOCACY (VOPA) #Peacebuilding #Humanitarianproject #Education #BrighterFuture"

Teaching for impact and sustainable change? Have just been asked about materials relating to Sustainable Development Goals. I have recommended looking at the material developed by the two world associations for Guiding and Guiding, WAGGGS and WOSM, in cooperation with FAO. They are know as the YUNGA-UN badges and we have yet to implement this program material in Denmark (note 'yet' - I may pick up this challenge in future). We are talking a lot about crisis preparedness - and I believe we owe to students to develop their capacity to analyse and act when confronted with crisis situations on the ground. 'Crisis' can refer to flooding of the kind we have seen in Central Europe this month. But it can also involve humanitarian crises such as the situation for Syrian refugees in 2015, Ukrainian refugees in 2022 or Palestinian refugees in 2024. Or perhaps a pandemic - a type of crisis familiar to all since 2020. To train crisis preparedness, we developed a dilemma game for the international scout and guide camp Roverway 2024. This tested participants' ability to analyse a crisis situation and make a decision, often based on scarce information, if any at all (this did challenge some participants). This game came out of our conversations in the WAGGGS Europe Crisis Support Team, as well as my interviews with 10 Polish volunteers engaged in 'Ukraine Action'. In two weeks I shall test the game on a group of BA students from Language & International Studies. Because students who aim for a career in international organisations, diplomacy, security or global NGOs need practical experience with decision making in crisis situations. If the experiment works, we may want to develop the game further. Just today I got some inspiration on possible ways of working with scenarios for the future. The crisis game is not available online, but you can access the YUNGA material. This is very good - highlighting important themes relating to sustainability. And it is there for you to use in IB classrooms, Folk High Schools, civil society trainings etc. So let's start thinking and acting for the future :)

Assalamualaikum and hi everyone, As you can see from the pictures attached, my team and I had the opportunity to participate in the Symposium for SCSH 2163 Usrah In Action 1, and the guidance is of our lecturer, Dr. Amirul Eimer Ramdzan Ali. Through this experience, we learned valuable lessons by executing tasks aimed at benefiting society, particularly children, who are our future leaders.Despite our blessings, we recognize that many children lack sufficient educational opportunities to achieve their dreams,so we plan to discuss with our lecturer and he assigned us the Sinar Chow Kit 4.0 Limitless Help Project, which focuses on community sustainability through Buku Jalanan Chow Kit (BJCK). As stated, Buku Jalanan Chow Kit which is in Chow Kit, is dedicated to providing equal and fair educational opportunities to children who do not have the same privilege to learn as other children in Malaysia.Their focus is on ensuring that every child has access to an education and an environment that supports them not just in the short term but for their long term as well. This is to protect their future. As for our project, we aim to create essential resources for volunteer-based management, focusing on BJCK's sustainability through Program Value Volunteer, Financial Value Volunteer, and Expressive Value Volunteer To tackle issues of insufficient manpower and a weak volunteer base, we established three bureaus: Educational Biro, Entrepreneurship Biro, and Sports Biro. We hope these efforts will bring limitless benefits to BJCK . Through this project, I learned the importance of unity in creating a sustainable future for those in need and for society as a whole. I hope this program can make the community aware that there is no harm in helping these children realize their dreams regardless of their background. We also really hope that this project gets a lot of attention and getting positive feedback. "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."

The key to unlocking opportunities key 🔑 celebrating the path to success on International Literacy Day! 📚 . . . . #shantinathenterprise #shantinathent #LiteracyDay #InternationalLiteracyDay #literate #success #education #learning #teach #read [Shantinath Enterprise, Shantinath ent, International Literacy Day, Success, Education, Learning, Teach, Literacy Day greetings]

Why is designing equitable schools, learning environments and workplaces so important to us? Maraea Hunia, our Tumu Te Aho Māori, recently spoke with North and South Magazine where she shared her stories about the deep rooted inequities and discrimination Māori have faced in both education and workplace settings. Shedding light on the importance of designing for equity, Maraea recalls from history that: “Native Schools were set up by design to prepare Māori students for low-skilled manual occupations and to culturally assimilate them by stripping their language. But even the manual and agricultural training was at a lower level than that offered to Pakeha.” Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gGBYfjgT