Press Release February 19, 2010

 

The Crisis In HaitiOn Friday, February 19, 2010 ImpactLives in collaboration with Edina Elementary students and educators participated in a ground-breaking three-hour virtual event called “The Crisis in Haiti: What Can YOU Do to Help?” This unique live program connected Edina-area elementary school students with their counterparts all over the world via high-speed video conference, along with scientists and agency representatives from federal and non-profit organizations worldwide, focusing on what still must be done to help Haitian earthquake victims.

 

Most notably, these students have been working with an organization called ImpactLives: raising money to assemble packaged meals with scientifically-formulated ingredients that nourish and promote a return to health, to send to starving families and orphans in Haiti. ImpactLives is an organization that facilitates transformation in communities and people through leadership identification, immersive cross-cultural leadership training, and short-term humanitarian efforts.

 

Real-time student presentations ranged from musical presentations including 1st grade students in Ponder, Texas singing “Put A Little Love in Your Heart” to student-created digital projects such as the “Sending Love from Taiwan” video created by high school students at National Dali High School in Dali City, Taiwan. More student presentations will be given by primary and secondary schools from all corners of the world: Texas, Minnesota, Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois; Portugal and Taiwan.

 

Edina Public SchoolsEdina Public Schools were uniquely selected to participate in this exciting event. Highlands and Concord Elementary shared in the district-wide efforts that students have been making to help the survivors of the Haitian earthquake.

 

“The Crisis in Haiti: What Can YOU Do to Help?” project was made available through MAGPI (Mid-Atlantic Gigapop in Philadelphia for Internet2), with support from The World Food Program, National Youth Leadership Council, Oxfam America, Philadelphia Global Water Initiative, Global Nomads, The Exploratorium Science Center, Multicultural Youth Exchange, Florida International University, CIARA, University of Porto, the University of Pennsylvania, and Tandberg Video Conferencing.
 

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