LOCAL STUDENTS TAKE PART IN COMMUNITY SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING CONFERENCE

Written by: ISHCMC
Written on: Monday, 20 February 2012

Over 300 students, teachers and community leaders from schools all over Saigon gathered to share ideas and work together to explore problems we face as global citizens, as part of the International School Ho Chi Minh City (ISHCMC) Global Issues Network's 1st Annual Conference. The theme of the conference was "Using our differences to make a difference".

The student-led interactive workshops, addressed global issues including: Biodiversity Losses, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, Poverty and Access to Education and Health Care. Participants made promises to work together in the future and left the conference inspired to make change.

"The only hope we have of facing the enormity of our global issues is to work together," observed ISHCMC student Bo Yeon Jang.

Students at conferences in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas have come to this same conclusion.

Students were inspired by key note speaker, KOTO Saigon's General Manager, David Loader, who demonstrated how his organization is utilizing this concept to help disadvantaged youth by empowering them with hospitality skills.

ISHCMC student Munin Kim spoke of how raising money for Operation Healthy Heart helped him to overcome shyness and to see himself as a leader.The need for students to do more than study, to actively make a difference and to help others, was a clear theme at the conference.

The ISHCMC Global Issues Network, which organized the 1st Annual GIN Saigon Conference, is uni

que among youth organizations because its programs are proposed, planned and run by students. Students are encouraged to do more than fundraise and to find ways to use their talents to make a difference. Its aim is to empower young people to make a change in their world and to develop the leadership potential in all.

ISHCMC has been successfully graduating students with an IB Diploma to high-profile overseas colleges and universities since 1999. ISHCMC is the only authorized IB World School in Ho Chi Min

h City, providing an International Baccalaureate curriculum (PYP, MYP, and IBDP) to all of their students, from ages 2 to 18 years.

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