Rotary Youth Exchange
Our 2 outbound youth exchange students learned their destination for the next school year. Dee will be going to Argentina and Tia will be going to Thailand.
Maria Liz joined us remotely from her home in Brazil to tell us about her recent trip to New York City to participate in a Global Peace Conference. She was selected to participate by the Global Peace Chain organization. The goal of this organization is to "Build resilience by cultivating a culture of tolerance, inclusivity, interfaith harmony, love, and social peacebuilding across borders through peace education, like peace talks with community-based groups/organizations".
The topics of this particular conference were:
- Building empathy for conflict resolutions;
- Role of social media in minimizing ethnic violence;
- Rising of Islamophobia;
- Utilization of "AI" for educational opportunities;
- Role of women in peacebuilding.
The speakers included diplomats, writers, AI engineers, and local US officials. The conference lasted for 3 days and Maria Liz felt that it was very worthwhile for what she learned and the contacts she made.