Notes

We can use straws and things to on-the-go filter. But we need to work with communities, even villages, so we need to provide them with safe accessible water. We have developed filters that can use sand to filter out protozoan. There’s an organization in NY and we can use groups to buy prototypes. There is not one real solution, there is a variety, and so we have to use a combination.

We need to a “round table” deal with the parents so that we can set up real projects that matter but made by kids who are passionate for the future generations.

Ex: Mr. Lewis: We applied for a grant in a association in a variety of fields. But we were looking for grants where we could sustain a variety of communities of helping to promote jobs in the developing world while eliminating problems. We are working with a organizations called //“[|ILAC”] (like iLack).// It’s a way of developing entrepreneurship in developing communities. We’re trying to develop a business market and perhaps train people to help these things come together.

IF we took all the passions of the kids and the knowledge and skills that the parents have to offer, we can do real meaningful work. There’s a very active group out of Washington University. They’re linking to Honduras. There are others such as a group of engineering in St. Louis who tries to develop engineering products that are environmentally friendly in Latin America. Most high school groups that go don’t really do work that requires high level skills, but rather more “physical.”

1. I want our kids to overcome the disadvantage of their privilege. 2. To believe the only way to solve problems on a global level is to have this high school’s generation to become global citizens. 3. Our kids should be talking to kids all over the world, and that would be passion enough to get them through the foundational stuff. 4. I believe our schools need to become difference kinds of places where we need to link the community. ..
 * Sermos:

//There shouldn’t be the kind of age-level boundaries, which restrict the different people with ideas to work together in a learning environment. What do we need?//

• SET UP RELATIONS. . . WITH PEOPLE OF SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICA • PARTNERSHIP OF SAVING GREEN SPACES AROUND GUATEMALA • WATER PROJECTS OF GETTING PURE WATER**

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