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 AGC students Skype with students in Ladakh, India. by Joe Phillips Mr. Phillips’ 4th Grade students continue their partnership with India by Skyping with a few Ladakhi kids visiting New Delhi for an Earth Day Summit at the American Embassy School. The AGC group communicated their Earth Day plans, which included making seedling pots out of repurposed objects like newspaper and old shoes. The Ladakhi group explained a video they made that teaches the harmful effects of plastic bottles on their livestock. It was a wonderful international exchange of ideas! |  My First Gallery by Joe Phillips For the last few weeks, our fastidious fourth graders have embarked on an exciting unit called “Our Friends In Ladakh” in Mr. Phillips’ Sustainability & Wellness class. They have begun a cross-global partnership with a school in Ladakh – a region of Northern India perched high up in the Himalayan Mountains. Students have shared language, videos, photos, drawings, smiles, and lots of questions. Many of those questions were answered during Skype video conversations between students, where as Mr. Dan put it… their kids waved and said “hello.” Ours waved back and said “jullay!” |  Our partner from India visits AGC in Chicago! by Joe Phillips Last week AGC had a very special visitor from Ladakh, Cynthia Hunt. Ms. Hunt has been living and working in the Himalayas for 25 years, where she founded two relief organizations to improve overall health of Ladakhi people and to provide assistance after the disastrous floods of 2010. Her commitment to the whole child has naturally led to education, which led her to this amazing partnership with AGC! |  Cynthia Hunt visits AGC by Joe Phillips Students from AGC in Chicago present Cynthia Hunt with drawings and letters for her students in Ladakh, India. |  Omprakash/Abriendo Mentes conference in Potrero, Costa Rica by Joe Phillips Skyping with the students in Ladakh, India alongside Cynthia Hunt from Health, Inc and participants of the conference in Potrero, Costa Rica. |  Omprakash/Abriendo Mentes conference in Potrero, Costa Rica by Joe Phillips With amazing Omprakash partners: Head of Schools in Ladakh, India Tashi and Health Inc's Cynthia Hunt. They gave an inspiring, funny, and passionate presentation at the conference in Costa Rica. |  The Floods at Domkhar Barma
|  My First Gallery HI The GCI was used to improve documentary skills in a group of youth from Ladakh |  Winter Camps HI HI's Future Leaders operate winter camps for remote village kids each year. Children get to skate, study, and learn about their traditions from village elders while living and working together. |  Khaltse Kids Coop Greenhouse HI HI sponsors greenhouses in government operated residential schools. Students own and operate the greenhouse, which provides nutritious food and income to the hostel. |  Ability Network HI HI supports the mentally and physically disabled in remote villages through providing care, medicines and helping start small enterprises to help the family gain an income. |  Girls' Co-ops HI HI supports Girls and Womens Cooperatives, micro-enterprises that bring income to the village while providing valuable services (solar powered lanterns manufactured and serviced by women, greenhouses introducing new farming technologies and crops and skills building workshops). |  Solar heated schools and tools HI HI helps villages build solar heated schools, in cooperation with the Government of India, and supplies schools with fun learning tools, books and teacher training. |  Agricultural Education HI HI supports agricultural education: through sponsoring and producing educational books and movies, rural workshops and introducing new crops, technologies and techniques across Ladakh. |  Disaster Relief HI HI and Ladakh Relief support rebuilding in remote villages after the devastating floods of August 2010. |  Remote village work HI HI works in remote villages: where services are lacking and other groups don't venture. Our projects are operated by HI Members themselves, not paid staff and not by foreigners. |  Homes, businesses, schools, roads and lives were washed away in the floods.
|  Tent schools are still operating in our villages
|  We're rebuilding community halls and women's centres in 2 villages.
|  Helping schools to rebuild in the most remote villages.
|  and rebuilding 2 community and women's centres.
|  Offering trauma counseling in 18 villages
|  helping kids tell their own stories
|  and have fun during summer and winter camps.
|  HI's first talking book HEALTH Inc HI is developing a whole series of talking books for dual language learners. Like all our resources, we encourage you to download, adapt and use in your own learning programmes. Go have a read and listen you can click through to this site in August: health-ladakh.sharefile.com/d/s75cb35cf4a94d24b And we hope to have it up on our resources page soon!
|  Microsoft Research Labs RIN of Domkhar Nicolle Lundstead MSRL-Bangalore is working with HI to record the cultural history of the Domkhar Valley while they test a new exciting platform (Rich Interactive Narative) and HI trains its videography team. Click here to view the Domkhar RIN:
|  Pachay Hug it Forward Bottle School HI HI's team of Cynthia and Tashi traveled to Pachay, Guatemala to study with Hug It Forward masons constructing a village school out of throw-away plastic bottles. Tashi's village of Domkhar will introduce this remarkable building technology to Ladakh. And please go check out the wonderful work of Hug It Forward! |  Winter Camp in the Himalayas
|  AES-donated computer and internet equipment - a first in Ladakh
|  Volunteer teachering in a remote village school
|  Earth Summit participants skyping with AGC Chicago
|  Ladakhi and AES students examining albatross stomach contents
|  Gerson of Hug it Forward at the Pachay school construction
|  The almost-finished school in Pachay
|  35,000 vpws die each day in India from injested plastic
|  Girls on the rink they helped build in Domkhar
|  We won! Lifting the cup and the future of their village
|  Tashi stuffing bottles with rubbish - Hug it Forward's brilliant idea, improving the recyclability in bottle schools
|  Anna Citrino of the American Embassy School with the mason innaugurating the first bottle school in Ladakh
|  Health-Inc Call for Volunteers
|  The latest docudrama from the Domkhar Future Leaders
|  Help kids share their stories half-way 'round the world
|  Help the team bring books alive by adding audio and animation
|  Banff Elementary school kids sharing with Chicago...
|  Chicago kids totally engrossed as they share with India...
|  and the Domkhar kids and AES Principal loving sharing right back with the highest internet in an Indian school.
|  AES Maths and More Cynthia The Canadian High Commission Hockey Team delivered Middle School Algebra books to HI partner schools when they flew up for the Friendship Cup. And CHC team members helped with a 2-day hockey camp when not explaining algebraic equations! |  Ladakh returns to Chicago Cynthia As a part of the Global Classroom Initiative, Cynthia visited the Academy of Global Citizenship's Grade 5's in October. The Ladakhi kids sent along some of their work on changes in their village in the last 3 generations. AGC kids then got busy finding out the changes their parents and grandparents have experienced. |  Jullay from Chicago AGC Chicago Mr. Phillip's Grade 5 sending back a Jullay! to their Global Classroom Initiative friends in the Himalayas. |  Meeting the Minister Anna Citrino the American Embassy School staff meeting with Jammu and Kashmir's Minister for Science and Technology during their teacher training workshop in 2012. |
