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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."
"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 10th Goal:
Reduced Inequalities
Poem in response to Reduced Inequalities
October 2018
And our ancestors scrapped like matadors,
Blood-lusted and blind, lashing madly out
At any sign of something different. We soured in the heat, clumping and clotting, no uniting flow...
By Ilana Arougheti
Fiction in response to Reduced Inequalities
October 2018
Whiiirrr whiiirr.
The camera clicks on, its blood red eye blinking in sudden birth. The image shifts slightly, then zooms in on the slouched form of a man, wearing a rumpled black suit...
By Caroline Sun
October 2018
We are equal.
No person is worth less than another.
Age, race, sex, class-
None of that should matter...
By Kelsey Cashman
Poem in response to Reduced Inequalities
October 2018
Nonfiction in response to Reduced Inequalities
Whenever I visit India, I am always surprised to see mansions owned by Bollywood film stars located next to dilapidated houses. Not far, I can see the slums of India filled with makeshift houses so poorly constructed that look like...
By Amrita Bhasin
October 2018
I remember when I was younger and eavesdropped on my parents’ conversations
They talked society and politics
I remember when I was younger and saw them struggle...
By Georgia Bernbaum
Poem in response to Reduced Inequalities
October 2018
People always say the thing about being in love
Is that no matter who it’s with it will be blessed from above.
Yet another thing that people tend to say
Is that sinful love is being gay...
By Grace Muresan
Poem in response to Reduced Inequalities
Fiction in response to Reduced Inequalities
October 2018
“Leon!”
Leon looked around and saw his friend, David, waving at him. He rolled his wheelchair up to David.
“Hey, man,” he said. “Is Sam here yet?"
By Karen Wu
Fiction in response to Reduced Inequalities
October 2018
“Papa?” I looked up at him. “Good luck.” “Don’t you worry ‘bout me, baby,” he said in his trademark deep voice. He crouched down to hug me. I went up the stairs to the bedroom I shared with my three-year-old brother, Jaymore, as Mama said her goodbyes...