So today I went to the One Campaign Hunger Banquet. The One Campaign helps raise money to give to people across the world who need help fight aids, global poverty and many other global concerns such as education. During this banquet, Natalie Sugira spoke about her life as an immigrant from Rwanda. She talked about how her family was so poor that she was the only child in her family to go to school and her father had to sell their cows and goats in order to send her there. This got me thinking about the things we talked about in my diverse and exceptional learner class. We lately have been discussing extreme poverty. Today in class we did a project where we got in a group of three and had to pretend we were teachers in a school that was getting three new students. These students were in extreme poverty and lived in a van. It makes me sad to realize how many students are living in extreme poverty and are stuggling to just get a good meal and not get sick. According to Gardner, if these simple needs are not satisfied it makes it even more challenging to teach them things like math or english. How are we as teachers going to meet these basic needs and help them get the best education when we have no control?
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