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YGIN 2014

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Table of Contents

Mission.............................................................3

Program Schedule ..........................................4

Keynote Speakers............................................5

Workshop Information.....................................6

Workshop Overview..........................................11

ISY Campus Overview......................................12

Participating Schools & Students....................13

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YGIN 2014

GLOBAL ISSUES NETWORK has as its mission: to help students realize

they can make a difference by empowering them to work internationally with their peers

to develop solutions for global issues. The GIN program is based upon High Noon:

Twelve Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them by Jean-François Rischard, for-

mer World Bank Vice-President for Europe. Rischard describes imminent issues that can

only be solved through global cooperation. Among these are water shortages, glob-

al warming, environmental degradation, infectious diseases, poverty, illiteracy, deple-

tion of fisheries, peacekeeping, and the loss of ecosystems. Rischard notes that the

existing institutions charged with addressing such issues, namely nation-states, gov-

ernment departments and international organisations, are self-serving, cumbersome

and inadequate for the task. He calls for an alternative model of global governance

based upon independent global networks that are flexible and super-responsive.

International schools already represent a network of independent organisations that

co-ordinate their worldwide efforts toward a common purpose, and are therefore an

excellent platform to apply Mr Rischard’s concepts. Students can be encouraged to

think systemically about real issues while also taking action to improve the human

condition. This approach involves collaboration rather than competition, where stu-

dents assume leadership of their own programme. Their network should promote both

face-to-face conferences and on-going communication via the latest technologies.

MISSION

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PROGRAM SCHEDUlESATURDAY MARCH 22

TIME EVENT

8:00 Arrival + T-Shirt Exchange

8:15 Welcome Speech (Mr. Plisinski, ISY Director) Performance #1 Nyi Nyi (Spoken Word Poetry)

Keynote Speech #1 Ms. Parsa Sanjana

9:15 SIMULATION

10:15 BREAK-TIME

10:30 Workshop Session 1

11:30 LUNCH and NGO Fair

12:30 Performance #2 Kevin Koko (Vocal Performance)

Keynote Speech #2 Dr. Yin Yin Nwe

1:30 Workshop Session #2

2:30 BREAK-TIME

2:45 Workshop Session #3

3:45 CLOSING SESSION

4:30 Group Photo

VENUE

ISY Steps

Black Box Theatre

MPR

Classrooms

Canteen/Upper Court

Black Box Theatre

Classrooms

Classrooms

MPR

ISY Field

- Akhaya Women (D201)- Proximity Design (E303)- Ms. Anna Little (E301)- Mr. Roughneen (E203)- Operation Smile (D203)- T-Net (D202)

- Wanna Aung (E301)- Pomelo (D202)- Terre des Homes (D203) - CISV (E203)- Proximity Designs (E303)- Help Portrait (E304)- MYME (D201)

- Yangon Heritage Trust (D201)- Yangon Animal Shelter (D202)- Sounds and Steps (D203)- ISY Microloans (E203)- Wanna Aung (E301)- ISM Community Service (E305)

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERSMs. Parsa Sanjana

Parsa Sanjana is an international health specialist with over 10

years of experience in health program management and public

health planning, programming, budgeting, and implementa-

tion. Parsa has supported the management and implementa-

tion of a range of HIV and AIDS programs, including preven-

tion, care and treatment. She is currently Deputy Director of

Program Implementation of the Global Fund grants managed

by Save the Children-Myanmar where she is responsible for

overseeing the implementationof HIV, TB and malaria programs

under the GF grants. Prior to this role, while based in Zambia with FHI, she led the ex-

pansion of FHI’s care and treatment program to support HIV/AIDS services at over 200

public health facilities, working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Her ex-

tensive field experience includes Bangladesh, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indo-

nesia, Malawi, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zambia.

Dr. yin yin nweWith over two decades’ experience of working in over forty coun-

tries, Dr Yin Yin Nwe is the only Myanmar woman to have achieved

a senior leadership position in the United Nations system. She

works in English, French and Indonesian in addition to Bamar/Bur-

mese. Since 2012, she has been supporting Myanmar’s reform in

a pro bono capacity as (a) Member, National Economic and Social

Advisory Council (NESAC), (b) Special Advisor, Myanmar Peace

Centre and (c) Advisor, Myanmar Government’s Education Reform.

Her doctorate is from Cambridge University, England. Before

1988, she was Lecturer/Associate Professor at Yangon University.

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WORKSHOPINFORMATION

Akhaya Women (Workshop Session 3/Location: D201)Akhaya Women is a local initiative, led by and for women. Akhaya Women provides the tools and

support mechanisms necessary for women in Myanmar to challenge gender stereotypes, to bring

gender equality into their family homes and communities, and to campaign for a safer and more

equal environment for women to live in. Akhaya also works with parents and children to create a

gender balanced environment within the home and to support young children to develop to their

full potential through early learning opportunities. Akhaya has an existing and growing wom-

en-led social business initiative, which aims, in the long term, to provide enough income to main-

tain and expand Akhaya operations, and to provide the women involved with a decent income.

Anna little (Workshop Session 3/Location: E301)Anna Little is a British self-shooting/editing, qualified broadcast journalist and video pro-

ducer based in Myanmar. She is currently freelancing as a camerawoman/editor for the BBC,

as well as studying a distance Environment degree with the Open University. Since 2000

Anna has worked in Europe, Africa and Asia for various media including Reuters and APTN.

The workshop will be interactive – she will explain the process of producing a sto-

ry and show the delegates a television news package that she produced, shot and ed-

ited. She will then ask them to imagine they are journalists covering a story on an en-

vironmental issue in Myanmar – they’ll tell me where they would look for information,

who their sources would be, who they would interview and what they would shoot.

CISV (Workshop Session 2/Location: E203)CISV International is a global organization dedicated to educating and inspiring for peace

through building inter-cultural friendship, cooperation and understanding. In over 60 years

we have given countless children and young people the experience of their lives and the op-

portunity to build lasting friendships through our international educational programmes.

We offer an exciting blend of seven international camp-based, family exchange and local

community programmes. We aim to help our participants develop the skills they need to be-

come informed, responsible and active global citizens and make a difference in their com-

munities and the world. The glue that underpins all of our programmes is friendship, in line

with our founding belief that peace is possible through friendship and mutual understanding.

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HELP PORTRAIT (Workshop Session 2/Location: E304)A photo with family and friends can last a lifetime. Orphans, poor families, they’re in need

of food, money, shelter… but this does not cover all of their emotional needs. For many par-

ents in Myanmar, to have the funds to take a professional picture of the children they are

proud of is rare. Help Portrait tries to fix this problem. A group of students from internation-

al schools work together to provide families a memory they can hold onto for generations.

ISY MICROLOANS (Workshop Session 1/Location: E203)The ISY Microloans group has been working to alleviate poverty by introducing and promoting

stable incomes. We offer microloans to small businesses/individuals (who aren’t eligible for bank

loans), in an effort to help them achieve their goals and ultimately overcome poverty and financial

instability. Come and learn more about our group’s goals and actions; you will have the chance to

participate in stimulating discussions and simulations! (Delegates who belong to Microloans groups

in other schools or wish to initiate such groups, are highly encouraged to come to our workshop

as we hope to provide a forum for solutions and discuss the possibility of collaborative projects).

ISM COMMUNITY SERVICE (Workshop Session 1/Location: E305)Have you ever stared into the eyes of a little orphan? What do you see? What he wants, what

he needs but what he cannot get. We are a group that provides orphans, nuns, monks, lo-

cal school students, and villagers in the Delta with the bare necessities that life has deprived

them of. We devote our time and affection to help people strive towards a better future.

Come to our workshop if you want to see how you, as an individual, have the power to make a

difference in people’s lives.

(Simulation included) (20 people max)

MYME (Workshop Session 2/Location: D201)The Mobile Myanmar Education Project aims to provide education via mobile classrooms

to children in Myanmar (Burma) who’ve been compelled into indentured servitude at tea-

shop restaurants where they’re forced to work long hours every day in order to sustain

their families. The mobile classrooms provide these children an opportunity to learn ba-

sic literacy, math and computer skills in a safe environment where they can gain self-con-

fidence and develop critical thinking skills through innovative, interactive instruction. We

believe that every child in Myanmar (Burma) has the right to access quality education. Edu-

cation is a critical step toward alleviating poverty and the abuses associated with child labor.

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Operation smile (Workshop Session 3/Location: D203)The ISY Operation Smile group is affiliated to the official NGO & international charity: Opera-

tion Smile, which works to provide free surgeries for children born with facial deformities such as

cleft lips and cleft palates. We believe that all children deserve to live their lives with dignity. And

for those suffering from cleft lip, cleft palate or other facial deformities, dignity begins with a

smile. Operation Smile volunteers work worldwide to repair childhood facial deformities by de-

livering safe, effective surgery and related medical care directly to patients. Hundreds of thou-

sands of children are still suffering from facial deformities. Worse, children are dying every day

simply because they lack the access to safe surgical care which would change their lives forever.

Join our workshop and learn more about our group, the problems we have overcome, and

future initiatives that we hope to succeed in!

Pomelo (Workshop Session 2/Location: D202)Pomelo provides a fair trade marketplace for small Burmese producers, opening

opportunities for them to improve their social and economic situation. The organiza-

tion is committed to using local materials and local artisans to produce quality, hand-

made products with a contemporary twist. Their producers include HIV sufferers, street

youths, the mentally and physically disabled and small family businesses fighting poverty.

Proximity designs (Workshop Session 2 & 3/Location: E303)Proximity Designs is an award-winning social enterprise that is based in Myanmar. We design

and deliver affordable, income-boosting products and services that compliment the entrepre-

neurial spirit of rural families. If you’re interested in renewable energy technology, human-cen-

tered design, or rural financing, come learn about what Proximity does, how we do it, and how

we’re transforming within this dynamic landscape.

Simon roughneen (Workshop Session 3/Location: E203)Simon Roughneen has reported from Southeast Asia since 2007, based in Yangon

since 2013. He has reported from across Africa, as well as Haiti, India, Kosovo, Pa-

kistan, and more recently, Lebanon. He writes for publications such as The Chris-

tian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The Irrawaddy, The Edge Review, Nik-

kei Asian Review. An archive of his articles can be seen at www.simonroughneen.com.

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Sounds and Steps (Workshop Session 1/Location: D203)Sounds and Steps is an interactive group that centers on the teaching of dance to deaf chil-

dren. We also work together to fund-raise and raise awareness about the difficulties faced by

disabled children, through innovative and creative means ranging from tie-dying to baking.

Terre des Hommes (Workshop Session 2/Location: D203)

Journey of Life: A Tool for Reintegrating Children in Street Situations with their familiesTerre des Hommes is an international charitable humanitarian federation which concentrates

on children’s rights, founded in 1960 by Edmond Kraiser in Lausanne, Switzerland. Terre des

Hommes campaigns for a more equitable relationship between the countries of the northern

and southern hemispheres, without racial, religious, political, cultural or sex-based discrimina-

tion. Terre des Hommes has been working in Myanmar to help children living in government

care facilities to return to their families. We enhance their protection through training and men-

toring of State Social Workers. More than 300 children have been reunited with their families

and reintegrated in their communities. The two themes that Terre des Hommes are currently

addressing in Myanmar are ‘Trafficking, abuse and exploitation’ and ‘Child Protection Systems’..

T-net (Workshop Session 3/Location: D202)Teaching Network, T-Net, initially started as a small tutoring group known as KoteKhine Com-

munity Service. several years after the establishment of Kotekhine community service group,

the goals of the group was broadened; from tutoring at one monastery to tutoring at a lot

more locations and funding kids to go to school. In order to prevent the parents from not

sending the kids to school due to financial setbacks, T-Net will fund bright young children all

throughout their primary grade school. T-Net is currently tutoring in different locations, but

T-Net’s ultimate goal is to give a chance for kids who want to learn and attend school.

Wanna Aung (Workshop Session 1 & 2/Location: E301)The workshop, led by Wanna Aung, will focus on raising awareness of how min-

eral deficiencies can affect brain development in children. Wanna will talk

about his organization which works with local and international agencies to

help educate parents about the importance of providing good nutrition.

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Yangon Animal Shelter (Workshop Session 1/Location: D202)“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who

look on and do nothing.” –Einstein

The Yangon Animal Shelter is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue and care of

stray animals. Our goal is to help animals that are homeless, sick, injured or under threat of

poisoning. Our goal is to spay/neuter, vaccinate and try to find them loving adoptive homes.

Currently, the shelter has an estimate of 200 dogs that are in need of a family. If you’re interest-

ed in learning how you as an individual can help and support the dogs in need, come join us.

Yangon Heritage Trust (Workshop Session 1/Location: D201)Since it was founded in March 2012 by Dr Thant Myint-U and a group of like-minded archi-

tects, business people, historians, and others, the Yangon Heritage Trust has been dedicat-

ed to preserving the city’s unique architectural legacy. Its aims including the protection and

promotion of Yangon’s urban heritage and character within a cohesive urban plan by advo-

cating for heritage protection, advising the government and developers on heritage issues,

and undertaking preservation projects, studies, conferences, and training. We believe that the

conservation of Yangon’s rich architectural heritage plays a vital role in making Yangon one of

the most livable and vibrant cities in Asia. As part of our mission, we will advocate for heritage

protection, develop policy options, advise the government, present our ideas to the public, un-

dertake specific conservation projects, facilitate training, and organize studies and conferences.

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OVERVIEW OF WORKSHOPS (Workshop Location : Workshop Name)

WORKSHOP SESSION 1 D201 : Yangon Heritage Trust

D202 : Yangon Animal Shelter

D203 : Sounds and Steps

E203 : ISY Microloans

E301 : Wanna Aung

E305 : ISM Community Service

WORKSHOP SESSION 2D201 : MYME

D202 : Pomelo

D203 : Terre des Hommes

E203 : CISV

E301 : Wanna Aung

E303 : Proximity Designs

E304 : Help Portrait

WORKSHOP SESSION 3D201 : Akhaya Women

D202 : T-Net

D203 : Operation Smile

E203 : Simon Roughneen

E301 : Anna Little

E303 : Proximity Design

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ISY CAMPUS OVERVIEW

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PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS

ISMNobelNick

Thiha Aung MaroSally

Theresa Sithu Latt

Kaung MyatOkkar

Aung Kyaw KelvinPatrickKennisCrystalThurein

Kaung ThihaHarryYuriThiri

KhineShwe Aung

Sophie Pamela

Lin Hay ThiThomasDylanMaryDevu Vivian

JasmineSandy

Ring NawValarie

JonathanYam YamBritney

Thu ThuJessica

Ngwe Zin OoHein Moe

MarcelAndrew

JeffSwanKevin

Su HninLeo

ArrmanCristina

Myat

ISYChing Ching

RebeccaPan PanEaindray

RavenAanchalRachelKiefer

Henry Yang RatnaIngyin

StephanieYelimNadiaShamyi TheresaCarrieElvis ParsaPascal Mayli

SakuraKaungVidushiAnanta

Moe MyatNiharika

Ye Na Taing Nandi Aung

Mi JinChris Ong

Yea Eun Phyu Hnin

SohamYaminMin Ji

MichelleEui Joon

Steven HahPrarthana Venkatesh

Aung Myo HtetAathiraDhruv

AnthonyCassey

YISSary

Pyi Theim KyawAron

JanessaCharlesSai Lyan

AshPeter

TheresaZin

Shwe YiSophieCo CoSuzinChloeHenryAmyIvy

JennyIn Wook

Min ThawSam

Myint MyatZachStella

Jeremy

SUPERVISORS

ISYNick Sturmey

Daw Khine MawISM

Todd DavisYIS

Dona Fer