When was the last time you heard a news story about Angola, Africa? Never? Angola is often lumped into conversations about Africa, represented in the statistics about HIV/Aids, education and literacy, and conflict. This is about to change for a group of Burnaby secondary school students. District students will learn about Angola by examining a…
Month: November 2015
Welcome Director Kelley of the UNHCR: Syrian Refugee Crisis
The United Nations High Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) Director Ninette Kelley has graciously agreed to speak with Burnaby students via videoconference on Tuesday, November 24th, 2015 in the second session of the Global Experts Speaker Series being held at Alpha Secondary School. The session will be in a traditional United Nations “Press Debrief” format, with…
Making sense of an interconnected world. Together. 