CAS: Global Advocacy Club
Once our senior DP students decided to create a space to discuss and develop their perspectives on current global issues, the CAS project of the “Global Advocacy Club” was hatched and the idea of an online platform for the exchange of perspectives was born. With their primary CAS goal focused on spreading awareness about issues not very prevalent in media, the group created an online “ideas exchange” so that their generation could express and discuss the most crucial problems of their time and bring issues happening on the global stage to their local community. By envisioning and developing both the platform and the group´s mission, our students were able to complete the requirements of action and service with this CAS project.
“The global advocacy work gave us the opportunity to put our IB academics in context, and this switch from being a student to being an activist was a nice change during the long hours of study! By just discussing with our fellow students and noticing that we all cared about similar things and that we are all very concerned about the future of our planet, made us feel very connected. That was really encouraging throughout our engagement.”