Internship Blog post #2
As one can imagine, working in an international environment presents a full dosage of multiculturalism. Just this week I experienced one of the best examples of multiculturalism. At the office I intern with, Oxfam Italia, they are in the process of planning a massive, multinational event called Walk the Global Walk that we will host in May of 2019. This event serves as the culmination of all of the work Oxfam Italia and its partners will be doing throughout the 2018-2019 school year. This work includes training teachers how to teach concepts from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The three SDGs that we are focusing on deal with human rights, urban safety, and environmental protection in the classroom. Taking it a step further, Oxfam is working with student leaders in school across Europe for them to become ‘peer leaders’ so that they can in turn teach their fellow students these principles which we believe is an even more effective method. At the end of this upc...