By Farah Nanji, Former MUN Delegate from The American School of Kinshasa ____________________________________________________________________________ I am currently a freshman at UC Berkeley and attended the THIMUN Qatar conference in 2017 and 2016. I founded the Operation Smile Student Club in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo my sophomore year of high school. I had volunteeredSigue leyendo “Student Initiative + Operation Smile= MUN Impact”
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MUN Impact Zone debuts at TQ 2018
By Sandev Ferdinando, Secretary General THIMUN Qatar 2018 _________________________________________________________________________________ The 7th Annual THIMUN Qatar conference brought with it a new focus on what MUN should be. Through MUN Impact, we are now looking to make use of students’ increased awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals, international diplomacy, and determination to enact change. TheSigue leyendo “MUN Impact Zone debuts at TQ 2018”
MUN and Advocacy in the Making
By Lina Maragha, University of Toronto, Former THIMUN Qatar DSG, ASD ______________________________________________________________________ August 4th, 2015 marks a date deeply ingrained in my memory. It is the date on which I first set foot in Palestine, my homeland, for the first time in my life. Temperatures had skyrocketed, and it was the hottest August everSigue leyendo “MUN and Advocacy in the Making”
American School of Doha’s MUN Club supports youth empowerment in Afghanistan
By Neil Udassi and Nada Haddad ____________________________________________________________________________ This year, we set out with the goal of transforming our ASD MUN club from an advocacy group into an activist organization. Our delegates come together to debate some of the world’s most pressing issues, yet, we, ourselves, do little to effectuate the change we so passionately advocateSigue leyendo “American School of Doha’s MUN Club supports youth empowerment in Afghanistan”
HELA Graduates First Women’s Empowerment Cohort
By Rahmatullah Hamdard, Founder and CEO of HELA _____________________________________________________________________________ The Hope for Education and Leadership in Afghanistan (HELA) organization has successfully graduated the first 20 women of their Women Empowerment Project. During this project which lasted for six months, the students learned managerial skills, leadership skills, entrepreneurial skills, and negotiation and marketing skills. These willSigue leyendo “HELA Graduates First Women’s Empowerment Cohort”