World Malaria Day is an opportunity to remember and find out more about this devastating but preventable disease. Malaria affects 550 million people in the world and kills 3 million people each year.
2009 marks the second United Nations World Malaria Day.
Visit the World Malaria Day website
Over the past few weeks, the IB ICT support team has been improving the site based on feedback from users. It should now be easier to upload images and videos, and the size of files you can upload has also been increased.
Hi everyone!my name is koonlam, Recently I am studying the chinese festivalsnow i want to know about....How we can perserve our chinese culture?In nowadays, people celebrate festivals but they do not know what is the meaning behind celebrating the festivals, for example chinese new year, people jsut collect lai sees.
How do we promote the chinese culture by celebrating the chinese festivals?
I am a Year 12 IB student in a Hong Kong international school. I am currently studying about Chinese and Western festivals in HL Chinese.
I would like to know what others feel about these problems:
- Why has people forgotten about the original aims of celebrating festivals (e.g. Christmas)?
- How can we remind people of the reasons and aims behind celebrating festivals?
- Is it necessary that we know why we celebrate festivals?
- Do you think certain festivals will disappear in a few decades?
Well, in my opinion I think Western festivals are more well known in Hong Kong and people tend to celebrate Christmas, Easter, etc, rather than Mid-Autumn festivals or Chong Yeung festival.
so what do you think?:)
This term, Years 7 and 8 have focussed their Community and Service on alleviating hunger in sections of the Surabaya community.
On World Hunger Day, year 8 students organised "freeze mobs" around the school to raise awareness amongst their fellow students. At 1pm, the groups "froze" for one minute. They then distributed brochures, they had previously made, to other students, to seek donations of staple food products for distribution to street communities.
