Small Group Discussion
I just finished leading one of our small group breakout sessions.
In the group, each person chose a fact sheet about one of the following:
- The Millennium Development Goals
- More and Better Aid
- Debt Cancelation
- Trade Justice
- Clean Water & Sanitation
- Education
- Child and Maternal Health
- HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria
They read through the fact sheet for their issue and then shared with the group a fact or statistic or idea that they found especially surprising or interesting. Conversation began to flow quickly, as the many issues all relate to one another.
Some of the things we discussed were the stigma of AIDS, the link between education and health, the impact of debt on all the extreme poverty issues, the important role women play in ending poverty, the importance of trade in creating a sustainable economy and even what to say to someone who asks you what ONE is.
All the issues’ fact sheets are included in everyone’s training packets, and I’ll post all ONE training packet materials on the blog soon.
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