IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

Floods in India, August - September 2008

For updated reports of the floods in India visit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Indian_floods

More technical reports are provided on the UN site ReliefWeb

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?OpenForm

Hurricane Ike

News of the impact of Hurricane Ike on the Caribbean  region at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7603319.stm

Track the course of Hurricane Ike at Stormpulse

http://www.stormpulse.com/hurricane-ike-2008

Dogodogo - stories of street children in Tanzania

Dogodogo is a centre caring for street children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A new book tells the stories of some of these children in their own words and with their own illustrations. Originally published in Tanzania, it now reaches a wider readership in an edition published by Macmillan.

Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar

Links to websites for information about the terrible disaster in Myanmar.

Community and Curriculum

Seniors in the IB Econ class at Bahrain School completed their studies of Section 5 of the currculum, Development Economics. Rather than just study poverty, they did something about it.

Muhammad Yunus on poverty

An extract from an interview with Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist, founder of the Grameen Bank, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2006. The Grameen Bank makes small loans to poor people, to help them develop ventures to provide income.

Full interview (15 minutes) at:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/yunus-interview.html

"You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can't bomb the world into peace!"

"You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can't bomb the world into peace!"

Michael Franti, Spearhead

Indus School links with the community

Description and student work relating to the Indus School's links with schools and an orphanage in the local community.