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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
Poem in response to Gender Equality
May 2018
By Ilana Arougheti

CC Image Courtesy of Donnie Ray Jones
My darling, what a tough world to bring you into:
Too muddy for a princess,
Too steep for a sprite,
Too risky for a sculpture,
Too daunting for a doll.
Good thing those sorts of girl exist only in myth.
You must study the faces who study your body,
Who compel you to study the hourglass mold, awaiting your weight in its curves,
Who make the demands that seem a study in stupidity,
Who regale you with lessons in what not to learn.
I will teach you to tear up their tests, scorn their gazes,
And study your power within.
Your hands will smear paint, climb trees, catch snowflakes, break bread,
Grasp pens, skim railings, clutch lovers, wipe tears,
Skip rocks, lift trophies, snap rhythms, trace thoughts,
Hold mine when you need it,
And cease not their motion if bedecked with a ring.
For the textbooks may call you restricted,
And the whispers may call you an object,
And the classics may call you a beautiful fool;
But the future can’t call you invisible
Once you shout the ink down from its pages.