What is the Dream Project?
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals in conjunction with the Women’s National Book Association will work with two sixth grade classes from Nimitz Middle School, in the inner city of Los Angeles.
For three months the students will be immersed in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs–which range from eradicating extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – these goals form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.)
The Dream Project will begin with the students going through a time machine to the year 2015, to the time when the MDGs have been achieved. Each class will be divided into sub groups that will choose one of the eight MDGs to be their assigned goal.
The scholastic benefits of this project will be creative problem solving, public speaking, team building, negotiating, researching history, politics, science, and sociology, leadership, and, of course, their imagination.
The students will present a collaborative report on the past, with regards to the genesis of their group’s issue; the present, with regards to what is currently being done to fulfill their goal; and the future, with regards to how their goal was accomplished, what the “tipping point” was, and what life is like now, with their particular goal fulfilled.
The Goal of the Dream Project:
To empower young people to recognize themselves as leaders that behold the potential to make a positive and real contribution to the world; to instill in them social responsibility, self-esteem, and creative problem solving.
The Objectives of the Dream Project:
1. To offer actual insight toward the realization of the MDGs as we document, film, and develop a template that will be used by educators, youth leaders, and organizations committed to the fulfillment of the MDGs. Our intention is to screen the documentary at the United Nations NGO/DPI Conference in September ’07, where selected students will attend as representatives to share what they learned and request that their reports be disseminated to the member states of the United Nations.
2. The inner city students, who are “at risk” of being recruited by gangs, drugs, and violence, will learn to relate to themselves as leaders and visionaries in the creation of a world that is safe, clean, harmonious, and prosperous for everyone. So that they will make choices and decisions in their lives beyond this project, having a ripple effect from these students, to their peers, and outward, causing a cultural consciousness of responsibility and global welfare.
In order to achieve our goal, we need your help! You can participate in The Dream Project with your tax-deductible donations made out to :
Women’s National Book Association-LA
c/o the Dream Project--501C3-510214679
8480 Carlton Way
LA, CA 90069
I would be happy to meet with you personally and/or come and speak/present at your organization’s next meeting. Thank you so much for your consideration and for the difference you make in the community and in the world.
Sincerely,
Kelly Sullivan Walden
Creative Director of The Dream Project, Author/Dream Coach
V.P. Women’s National Book Association-LA 501C3-510214679
(323) 650-5554
e-mail Kelly
What a wonderful project! I've taken the liberty of synthesizing the information and putting it in my newsletter. Sounds as though all of us should be contributing to this!
Posted by: Liana | April 17, 2007 at 06:08 PM