SAS Global Issues Group Wiki - Recently Updated Pages

NGO Contacted

kellycho — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:02:42 CST

Name	Short Summary	Contact Date	Reply Date	Info
Shanghai Angel Charity Foundation (SACF)	Their mission is to promote community health, to provide disaster relief, to promote charitable activities, to provide disadvantaged people with medical treatment and other forms of assistance and to exemplify the charitable spirit of our global neighborhood	December 18, 2007
Stephanie Kwan	developed roots and shoots at our school and now workds for an enviromental company	November	November	1. ID the problem: What is the problem? Why is it a problem? Who is it a problem to? Who is it not a problem to? - i.e., unsanitary conditions of what? Drinking water? Bathrooms? Housing? -causes health problems, 2. Develop options to address the problem. 3. Assess the feasibility of the options 4. Implementation: 5. Evaluate project:
UN Hanbitat- water for asian cities-Nanjing		Dec. 21
Global Village Beijing	Help China to achieve sustainable development by increasing public awareness and enhancing public participation	Jan. 4

Letter Format

alexandracharnock — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:35:20 CST

Shanghai American School

Global Issues Group

258 Jin Feng Lu

Zhudi Town, Minhang Dist.

Shanghai, China 201107

DATE

COMPANY’S NAME

(address) Dear __________, We represent the Global Issues Group at Shanghai American School. The Global Issues Network is an international association of students from different schools around the world who are dedicated to working to solve global issues. Our group’s focus is on the prevention of illnesses caused by unsanitary conditions in China. After viewing your website, we were intrigued and inspired by your works and goals to improve the environment in our community. We are interested in your _________________________MISSION STATEMENT______________________; and therefore decided to contact you. In order to work towards a healthier environment for future generations, we would like to contribute our efforts and provide assistance for your/our cause. We would greatly appreciate your involvement in supporting our program. Any information or assistance that you can provide us would be beneficial. Thank you for your attention and consideration. Please contact us at shanghaiamericanschool.gig@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Global Issues Group

Shanghai American School

NGOs in Shanghai

MelanieLHung — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:11:19 CST

In the table below, you can start adding information about NGOs in Shanghai that our club may be able to work with. Do a little research on the web, maybe by starting here:
List of NGOs working in Shanghai:
http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/dingo/index.php?cat=1&subcat=38

When you read about an NGO that sounds promising, fill in the table below with its information.

Name of NGO	Contact information (including phone #, email, website URL, etc...)	Short description (including which Millennium Goal it addresses)
Half the Sky Foundation	Mainland China Contact Phone #: +86 10-8532-3042 Website: www.halfthesky.org Email: info@halfthesky.org Fax: +86(10) 8532-1920 More Contact Info: http://www.halfthesky.org/about/contact.php	"All the children who are held and loved will know how to love others... Spread these virtues in the world. Nothing more need be done" This foundation works to "provide family-like nurturing in the lives of orphaned children". Basically, they aim to improve the living conditions of orphanages, and give unfortunate children love, essentially creating a brighter future for them. The Millennium Goal that is addressed by this foundation basically is "to achieve universal primary education"
Natural Resources Defense Council in China	Timothy Hui c/o South-North Institute for Sustainable Development, Beijing Tel: +86 10 8652-1198 Fax: +86 10 6801-1625 Alex Wang Attorney Director, Environmental Law and Public Participation awang@nrdc.org Additional Web Address: www.chinacleanenergy.org	Mission: "To safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends . . . To establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society . . . To foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment."
Shanghai Discovery Children's Museum (SDCM)	Phone #: 021/5688-0844 Email: infosdcm@yahoo.com Website: www.shanghaidiscovery.org Address: Yangqu Lu 330 Location: Zhabei (near Linfen Lu, inside the Zhabei Youth Activity Center)	SDCM is not-for-profit, hands-on, interactive children's museum that emphasizes learning by play for children ages 10 years and younger.
Friends of China	Mag Chee Office Manager 709 7th Floor Huada Trade Mansion, 266 Wuhou Ci Street, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041 Tel: +86 (0)28 8558 5060	"To promote education, social welfare, physical, mental, and spiritual health in China. To assist the development of all levels of education, the advancement of health and medical services in China."

Leader Postitions

alexandracharnock — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:31:49 CST

Leadership Positions: (not listed in any order of importance)
-this years leaders will be the major candidates for conference participants unless there is conflict

President: Alexandra Charnock

Does everything and oversees everything…basically is GOD.

Vice President: Jenny Huang

helps in organizing meetings
substitutes for president incase of absent
supervises all other subgroups and coordinates the efforts of everyone in the group
deals with administrative affairs

Public Relations: Cathrine Zhang

deals with awareness campaign
organizes weekly changes to the bulletin board
organizes advertisement and posters for the group
in charge of assemblies and organizes public presentations
organizes publicity within the school/community i.e. newspaper articles

Fundraising: Melanie Chu & Jessica Lee

organizes fundraising events
organizes group/school/community participation in events
organizes finances and money
works with PR for advertising events

Project Manager: Hae Ju Kang

awareness campaign
produces posters, presentations, power points, videos, pamphlets, and informational packets
works with fundraising leader to help with event organization
action plan
in charge of planning and the organization trips and community service outings
organizes groups participation and effort toward long goal and action

GIG Member List

howardchang — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:41:11 CST

With over 20 members signed up, it is important we have one another's email addresses. Click "easy edit" above and enter your name, email, and cell phone number in the space below. This way we'll be able to keep in touch as the year progresses:

Name:	Email:	Cell #:
Alexandra Charnock	alichina@hotmail.com	13817233991
Andrea Garofalo	andrea_Garofalo@msn.com	13512148403
Kevin Xu	kevnxu@yahoo.com	13816973807
Justin Goldman	justingoldman@hotmail.com	none (yet)
Melanie Chu	chumelanie@hotmail.com
Kai Lin Fu	kl_0511@hotmail.com	13818399983
Kelly Cho	kellycho16@gmail.com	13671811248
David Tay	who_gives_lah@hotmail.com	13764429503
Tiffany Tan	tan.tiffany@yahoo.com	13817870069
Melanie Hung	melanie.hung@gmail.com	13482384977
Howard Chang	howard110@hotmail.com	13654633463

Action Planning

alexandracharnock — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:09:27 CST

Millenium goal:

Ensure Enviromental Stability
Sanitation
Combating illness caused my unsanitary conditions
Prevention Strategies

-Reduce and help prevent illness caused by unsanitary conditions in communities in *(China)
Key concepts:

medical aid and supplies
handling of food
disposal of waste
spreading and contraction of disease

Brainstorming For Sanitation

it'skillingme. — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:21:57 CST

i know david made a discusssion forum but i think it's best if you post your ideas on this page
andthe and click here for the link to sanitation

SAS GIG Goals

it'skillingme. — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:06:30 CST

Below are the short term goals we discussed and agreed on in our first meeting. These are goals to be met before December 14th. If the goal is in the left collumn, that means it has yet to be achieved. Once it is achieved, you should edit the page and move it to the right collumn. Include and thoughts or comments on these goals in the "comments" section at the bottom of this page:

Goals to be met

Goals that have been achieved

Begin working on GIG bulletin board (located outside of Ms.
Cessna's room)
Raise awareness of OUR CLUB through the bulletin board
Research and decide on issue we will focus on (by NEXT MEETING!)
Create our ACTION PLAN by next next week
Possibly have some large, glossy posters printed with information
about our club and the global issue we have chosen to focus on.
Think about how to include the ES and MS in our awareness
campaign
Create a Facebook group for SAS GIG?!! Great IDEA!
Register for GIN EARCOS Conference in Beijing (at WAB in April
2008). We need to register for this conference by December 4.

-We have begun! The GIG bulletin board is alive! somewhat...
-Facebook? check.
- Issue we will focus on: Sanitation and Hygiene (?)

Resources for GIG members

kl_0511 — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:40:15 CST

List of NGOs working in Shanghai:
http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/dingo/index.php?cat=1&subcat=38

Below are a few more websites that Alex found to introduce the issues
and what's being done to address them.

UN Millennium Development Goals
http://endpoverty2015.org/

this one is the global issues webpage
http://www.global-issues-network.org/gin/home.html

this one is a source for starting up programs
http://www.creativeaction.org/Nationwide/index.htm

this one is the UN page
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

List of projects and NGOs across the world
http://www.glinet.org/standard.asp?id=876

Candle Night Campaign page
http://www.candle-night.org/english/news/200512_candle_night_in_shanghai_nl5.php

SAS Global Issues Group Wiki

welkerjason — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:49:25 CDT

Welcome SAS Global Issues Group members!
I have created this site as a place for us to come to share ideas about how to make the SAS GIG as effective as possible in tackling one of the 8 United Nations Millenium Goals. These goals are (click the link to learn more about each one):

The goal of the SAS GIG is to choose one of the issues from this list, and:

We will begin by educating ourselves abou the issue, learning everything there is to know about how it is affecting people around the world, and understanding what kinds of solutions exist to imrpove the lives of those struggling with it.
Next we will make contacts with a local agency already working in the area relating to our issue. We will work with the agency to develop a service project through which the SAS community can help with the efforts already under way in the chosen area.
The club will work to educate and involve the school community about our chosen issue, with our goal being to raise awareness of the challenges faced by the world's less fortunate people, in the hope that our efforts can make a small difference for those struggling with a global issue.

Global Issues Network Town Meeting: While we are only one group at one school in one city in the world, the Global Issues Network stretches across six continents and includes hundreds of international schools and thousands of students, all engaged in activities aimed at addressing the UN Millennium Goals. To visit the Global Issues Network Moodle page, click below: Enter username: "wargo-e" and password: "global"

"We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals – worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries – but only if we break with business as usual. We cannot win overnight. Success will require sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. It takes time to train the teachers, nurses and engineers; to build the roads, schools and hospitals; to grow the small and large businesses able to create the jobs and income needed. So we must start now. And we must more than double global development assistance over the next few years. Nothing less will help to achieve
the Goals." - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan

Click the banner below to be taken to the UN website about the Millenium Development Goals