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Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals

May 2019

THE ESSENCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS

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

PARTNERING WITH SCHOOLS

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

Actions in Spotlight

Poem in response to Decent Work and Economic Growth

August 2018

Just One Job

By Grace Muresan

Image Credit: Grace Muresan

Strike! Pull back,

The hoe is heavy

I’m not ready

For this sort of work.

Strike! Pull back,

Father’s dead

And mum’s in bed

I cannot let it hurt.

Strike! Pull back,

My sisters cook and clean inside

By husbands’ rules they must abide

I strike with the hoe and pull aside.

Strike! Pull back,

Thinking of Mum will make me fast

I stare at her and then at last…

She takes her final breath

And struggles into death.

Strike! Pull back,

I plow the field

And finally yield

Doing the very work

That killed my father.