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"Actions in Spotlight has encouraged me to learn more about why these inequalities exist and how society can resolve them through the implementation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals."
"Actions encourages other young people to learn more and speak out for the causes they support; our voices will be heard."
Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals
May 2019
When I was little, my teachers taught my peers and me skills like adding and subtracting, reading and writing. They also taught us other skills like sharing with each other, talking about our problems, and negotiating solutions. These are basic principles...
By Georgia Bernbaum
May 2019
Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals
To achieve all 16 goals, the United Nations put forth the 17th goal which encourages collaboration between public and private sector to achieve the goals.Schools, public or private, play an important role to help achieve this 17th goal. They should prepare the future...
By Grace Muresan
Our Creative Response to the 6th Goal:
Clean Water and Sanitation
Nonfiction in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
Nonfiction in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
Two years ago, I took a trip to India to visit my relatives. Driving past the slums of India, I was surprised to see television antennas sticking out of the tops of makeshift house. In fact, the World Bank reports that...
Water. It’s one of our basic necessities and one of the things that makes our planet habitable. It seems incomprehensible that we would go even one day without interacting with water in some way. Maybe the amount of water is just right. Even...
By Amrita Bhasin
By Jason Sharer
Nonfiction in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
Everybody knows that water is important. We need it to live, and use it for lots of things including eating, drinking, hygiene, and recreation. But after you brush your teeth or drain the bathtub, where does that dirty water go?
By Grace Muresan
Poem in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
O water so impure, why must I try
So hard to shake your taint of rot and ground?
You fill the air, but I’m left high and dry:
Two-thirds of me, but not one drop around.
By Ilana Arougheti
Poem in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
It trickles slowly
Down the lips,
Slithers through the throat,
A quick, cool stream
By Mofe Akinyanmi
Poem in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
We take it for granted,
Always being able
To reach for a glass of water,
Even though 663 million people, a...
By Kelsey Cashman
Nonfiction in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
Water - a necessity of life. When you are thirsty, you might go to into your kitchen and grab a cold bottle of water from the fridge. However, not everyone has this privilege. In fact, over 10% of the people in the world do not. On the other side of the world, in...
By Georgia Bernbaum
Poem in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
Water.
I need water
But what can I do?
There is no water
By Karen Wu
Fiction in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
Poem in response to Clean Water and Sanitation
June 2018
Week 1
Dear Mummy,
I hope you and Eliza are safe on the home front. I would like to
say that I am fine here, but things are rough.
The jar is strong with walls of hardened clay,
Its heat-glazed outside patterned black and gray.
Hand after hand has gripped its rounded rim,
And countless water drops have passed its brim.