What's the most recent project that you have been working on in Argentina? The students are always involved in the ongoing projects like the literary magazines and current events magazines. Lately they have been very involved in two projects. One is the First Peoples project because the school where I work has a very high population of students that have indigenous backgrounds so they have been very involved with this First Peoples project and the Arts project within the First Peoples. This is very nice because they go to their roots. They research about art for example, or they research about literature in their Mapuche culture which is the indigenous group in the region of Patagonia. They paint or they draw. They know there are 15 schools in other regions of the world with students belonging to different indigenous groups and then they materially exchange their artwork. They send out 15 envelopes with their artwork and they in turn receive 15 envelopes, one for each school. Then one day in December generally, they have this huge exhibition with all the artwork around the world which is held at the same time in all the schools that have participated. This is really nice and the works are really very amazing. They have also been involved in a project called Stop Violence. It's a whole curriculum that a teacher within I*EARN created. She provided all the curriculum units for teaching kids about positive conflict resolution. The 11th and 12 graders were very enthusiastic about learning because it's something that's very inside them, having conflict at that age with their parents and their peers and with people in the community. We have these workshops at school. A group of kids said why don't we take this to the elementary schools. Two or three of the kids have mothers who are elementary teachers. When the mothers learned what they were doing, they said, this is what we need in our schools because kids fight and quarrel so much. For International Violence Day, they organized in our community to go to every elementary school and have a workshop for sixth and seventh graders. So this is how it works. They really make a difference. They are working in another project that's called Gender Equity. They form a club of girls and they discuss questions of equity, family violence and sex. They contribute their findings and ideas with other kids around the world. It has been very impressive. They got messages from kids in Africa for example, in Kenya. They learned so much about cultural differences. Sometimes they think that they have so many problems. When they hear the rest talking about their problems they think Oh, we are so privileged after all! What are your visions for the future? What difficulties challenge your ability to manifest those visions? cliff's edge || jump || innovate || email