ONE More Challenge!
As college students, OCCers are perhaps some of the most qualified ONE members out there to write about the importance of education — in your local communities as well as globally. Well, here’s your chance.
ONE is teaming with the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) to support The Big Read: a new storybook encouraging literacy and education for everyone. Contributions to the book come from influential figures including Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan as well as Nelson Mandela, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Natalie Portman, Paulo Coelho and others.
Because of the important work ONE members do in advocating for global education, a ONE member will have her or his story published in The Big Read book. Click here to learn more about the contest and submit your story.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an OCC student to step up and put those classroom-honed writing skills, and OCC-honed advocacy skills, to the test. You don’t have to be a famous hero, world leader or even a leader in OCC to be in the running on this challenge. What we want is a compelling narrative telling the story of a ONE advocate. YOUR story is exactly the one we want to share with the world.
The Big Read book will be translated and distributed in over 100 countries as a tool for promoting literacy and good quality, free and public education for everyone. Children in other countries are going to learn to read using this book. And on June 16, the Day of the African Child, ONE will join GCE to present The Big Read to President Obama — with our request that he keep his promise to ensure children in developing countries have access to basic education through a U.S. contribution of $2 billion to a Global Fund for Education.
Read examples from the book and send us your story here. The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2009, and we’ll announce the winner on May 8.
Come on, OCCers — what do you say, let’s have ONE last challenge before we wrap this season.
Game On!
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