Thème central pour la communauté de l’IB: « Notre humanité : une réalité partagée »

Landslides in El Salvador - Hurricane Ida

El Salvador has recently been hit by heavy rains - associated with Hurricane Ida. Houses of many poor people have been submerged by landslides. Over 136 people have died and dozens are missing.

Hurricane Ida has also affected Nicaragua and Mexico.

The reports below give further details.

IB Community Theme: Sharing Our Humanity with HUB-GPN and UWC for A Better World!!!

This is a very special invitation for you, as a fellow UWC member, toplease visit www.GiveWhileYouReceive.com/UniteForImpact<http://www.GiveWhileYouReceive.com/UniteForImpact> . Please also follow

Recent disasters in Australia

My thoughts and sympathy go out to the families who have been affected by the recent floods in Nadi, Fiji and in North Queensland, Australia and the devasting bushfires in rural Victoria, Australia. 

Financial assistance is absolutely necessary and allows for flexibilty- it can go where most needed for what is most needed. Fantastic organisations like the Red Cross and Salvation Army provide
material and financial assistance in times of emergency, see links
below.

Education resources from British Red Cross

The British Red Cross has developed many teaching resources - lesson plans, games, assembly ideas etc - in issues relating to its activities. 

These include the following topics relevant to the IB community theme:  

Environment exploitation could cause disaster

The world have suffered lots of natural disaster, which some of them
could be predict, and some are unpredictable. Through my experience,
the natural disaster also could be caused by environment exploitation
such as illegal logging. Illegal logging could cause floods and making
the ecosystem unbalance. With the limit of logging, we also could
reduce the happening of floods, landslides, and other kind of natural

Reflections under the IB community theme - A poem by a 16 year old IB student in Green Land Pré Vert International School

I'm an MYP student in Green Land Pre Vert International School- Egypt. My personal projet is under the IB community theme. It is a book of poems expressing teens' fear of the future towards global poverty. This is my first submission under the name of: "The Good Part In Me". I hope it provokes people into action towards eradication of poverty.

                                         The Good Part In Me!