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Action Steps

Twelve Methodologies to help foster change

6 Billion People—1,729 Languages—190 Countries—143 Religions

• Brainstorm: ideas to bring the issue of the plight of the girl child in education to organizations that support children’s’ causes, or are organized for children.

• Collaborative Teams: to organize local schools to get involve and link with schools in the developing world with support of information, books and technology

• Case Study: Write paper and submit to Newsrooms, Journals, Newspapers

• Debate: in parent-teacher meetings, town hall, on the Internet

• Drama: Have school plays that tell the story of the girl child. Invite local dignitaries

• Campaign to write: letters to Non Governmental Organizations (hotlink to NGO list) to offer support and to volunteer.

• Linkage of schools districts: with like minded districts through the Internet.

• Annual UNICEF day: to promote awareness and to teach the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Use Halloween as a time for collection for funds for UNICEF.

• Incorporate a human rights curriculum: into the Social Studies Framework

• Field day outings: where children visit orphans and children of need.

• Poster Campaign: and present it to the City Hall.

• Adopt a child campaign: every child or classroom links through the Internet with another classroom in a country less fortunate that the one they live in as determined as a developing country by the United Nations

Source: Richard Pierre Claude Professor Emeritus University of Maryland