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maybe we are biased but what the first lady of qatar has being doing for nearly 20 years now is remarkable
a university partnership campus with world leading universities but particularly those empowering women and engineering
a research centre educationaboveall that became partner of about 40 countries concerned with refugee education
through the 2010s biannual wish and wise summits where e is for future of education and h for health
our bias - first education laureate sir fazle abed brac
qatars international summit centre can easily host 5000 delegates in normal times and is a few minutes from the education campus just outside the town center
over the years delegate bios like these have been shared on peoples who love education in every way we can empowerr youth chinese india singapore france bangladesh philippines ghana usa
our experience is outside usa media are usually positively engaged in how can we celebrate eduxation getting better for youth livelihoods - when it comes to helping collaborate around sustinability goals this weakness of usa is extremely depressing to us parents in usa
there are various youth competitions and intrernships
this month saw a zoom on youth agency - at this sort of networking nowhere emulates wise
EAA-ReachOutToAsia presents our very first ‘Think Global Act Local’ webinar focused on the topic of Volunteerism as a Pathway to Engaged Global Citizenship”. This webinar includes guest speakers from UNESCO Doha and Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar as well as two experienced ROTA Youth Volunteers.
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i'll just give you a little background information about reach out to asia so roto was actually established back in 2005 as a then center under qatar foundation focused on providing access to quality education
in countries around asia mostly after disaster man-made or natural disasters
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since our inception rota has provided ucation and training to over 1.5 million children and youth in over
15 countries in order to build their capacity to contribute to a sustainable future
04:45 in parallel rota at the heart of our work has focused also on volunteering 4:51
rota has conducted meaningful and impactful volunteering programs that have engaged and inspired many thousands of volunteers to play active roles in addressing educational and development challenges in their communities here in qatar and beyond in countries abroad
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now in 2017 rota joined the education above all foundation or eaa is a global education foundation again focused on provision of quality education for many millions of children and youth around the world
three other core programs in eaa educate a child which is focused on getting millions of out of school children into a quality primary education we have alpha hura which has worked mainly in palestine but has rebuilt countless schools and provides educational scholarships to allow youth to achieve their potential as well as peace
which advocates for the protection and right to education in conflict affected areas around the world
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so since joining eaa rota has focused on a new on empowering youth those are aged between 15 and 24
to be inspired and active agents of change through global citizenship education
Though we have previously worked in this area of global citizen education we've now focused exclusively on this demographic that is used with a particular focus on marginalized youth that might be marginalized for social economic political even environmental factors
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but you might ask what is global citizenship education
so we use a definition that builds on the work of other agencies such as unesco
and oxfam with a definition that global citizenship education
or gced involves any educational effort that provides the skills knowledge and experiences and to encourage the behaviors attitudes and values that enable youth to be agents of long-term positive
changes in their own lives and in their immediate and larger communities
and that seems like quite a mouthful butwhat we'll be doing in this webinar is talking about how volunteering contributes to developing active global citizens
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so we'll be talking at we'll be unpacking this and defining the connection between the two
ideas today i'm joined by an incredible panel of guest speakers who are now invite to introduce themselves tell us where they're from who they work for and what they do
so if we could start with caitlin.. hi good afternoon everyone thank you
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very much george ijust want to say first of all thank you very much to our friends at rota
and eaa for organizing this really topical and important discussion i'm caitlin sparks i'm the education
program officer at the unesco office for the gulf states in yemen based here in doha;i'm originally from brisbane australia- about a thousand kilometers north of sydney but i've been working here in doha for
the last three years; as many of you already know unesco is the united nations educational scientific
and cultural organization my job is to assist our member states with education policy and planning
provide technical assistance and capacity building opportunitiescoordinate efforts to achieving sdg4 in
particular sustainable development goal four which unesco is the lead un agency
one of our key programmatic areas is actually global citizenship education and education for sustainable development so we as unesco are very pleased indeed that rota has joined promoting gced in
the region and increased momentum here
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wonderful thank you very much caitlin -over to you lakisha
good afternoon everyone ;I’m the international education and student programming
officer for virginia commonwealth university school of the arts in qatar i would
i have been in doha for the last 10 years andi am originally from los angeles
so in my role as international education officer i work with students with our
service learning program here locally in qatar and also internationally
i'm also the multicultural affairs person for our office and student life and engagement
where i do trainings on diversity inclusion equity social justice and activis
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over to you rose
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hi everyone i feel very privileged to be here alongside
all of you i'm rose abueliers
i'm joining you from beirut lebanon this is where i have been born and raised and i'm currently
working at a local organization called arkansas in the youth program
i work as a research and development officer currently; our work in the program is to support
youth at risk marginalized youth and youth and children with disability
in order to empower them and support them in being active members of the society
my work revolves around doing projects…initiatives networking and creating all
sorts of innovative ways and things to support youth and it's really an awesome job
and i've been really a volunteer for such a long time and this is mostly why i am the person who i am so
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Over to you ahmed lingawi
i work for the ministry of trade in an industry here in doha
i was born and raised here in doha ;,, I also founded as a water youth advisory board club and
actually wearing many hats and i'm focused on sustainable development goals and try to localize it from environment perspective i'm very honored to be withyou guys