Egypt

This year in Egypt there has been an uprising of the people there because the people no longer like who was in power, President Hosni Mubarak. In the beginning of the protest Mubarak had told Egypt that he was going to stay on for the rest of his term but not run again. Though that did not sit well with the people of Egypt so the protests continued, until Mubarak finally stepped down on Feb. 11 2011. It took about 18 days of protesting and the loss of support from the military and the U.S. for him to finally take that step in leaving office. I chose Egypt for my report because it's a major event that is taking place right now and the fact that the country can just shut down technologie in order to try and save their bad government and not let the world know what i happening at every moment intriges me. The world was basically on a stand still waiting for info from Egypt and it was crazy, i personally didn't know what was happening when i saw all the messages that said "Pray for #Egypt" on Facebook and other cites and when i asked people most didn't know either, it took me at least a day to find someone who actually knew what that meant and what was going on. The whole time i was just thinking with all the resources and technologie how is it that no one i knew could tell me anything about that message, "Pray for #Egypt". Now that I'm researching it i found that that message was the last tweet from a man named Wael Ghonim, an executive from Google Egypt, before he was imprisoned for 12 days without anyone knowing of his whereabouts. So to me this whole situation is fascinating and that's why i chose Egypt.

Memo

Date: 02/11/11

To: 1311 Students

From: Tiffany Gailey

The peace organization I chose is Peace4Kids.  This organization specializes in helping kids in the Los Angeles area who are in the foster care program. They help kids stay off the streets and off drugs. Peace4Kids offer four programs to help the children, the Saturday program, the teen program, the emancipation services program, and the mentor program. The Saturday program gives the kids an education, trips, life skills and mentorship opportunities for over 200 kids ages 5-18. The teen program focus’ on kids between the ages of 13-19 to help them with independent living skills, emotional and behavioral intelligence, economic literacy, dream discovery and goal setting. The Emancipation services program helps those kids who are about to age out of the foster care program, aging out means that they will no longer belong to anyone but themselves if they have not yet been adopted. The Emancipation services program helps them transition into adults and help them to better understand the process they are undergoing. Last but most definitely not least the Mentor program is most likely related to the Big Brother Big Sister program they link foster and at-risk kids with caring adults who have made long term commitments to mentorship. I was adopted when I was younger which is why I believe in this organization and others like it.

Film on Central Asia Institute

The film was informative. I didn't previously know that anyone was trying to build multiple schools in Iraq or Pakistan let alone one. Mark is doing a very nice caring thing for the people, mostly the girls, who need education right now over in those areas of the world. The short film showed how many of the people want to learn and grow and educate themselves so as to not keep going in the same direction. All of them believe the power to change anything is in the young girls and that just educating them to a 5th grade level will change so many aspects of the life they have now, such as the baby count young women will stop having so many kids and so many of the kids dying because of unsanitary living situations. Because the girls ill learn how they can keep life much more sanitary and livable another thing that the girls will help improve is that with the traits and such that they learn they can contribute to the local economy. One man, Mark, helping out people, that once helped him, and who aspired to a better life, a better education has started to change history. It wont happen immediately but in the future when these children take what they have learned and teach new generations and the new generations continue to learn more the way of there life and culture will change dramatically. 

Peace

Waves crashing on a sandy beach