Some Food for Thought

An idea is starting to grow.

After Camille and I talked, we decided to call our project (which I mentioned in my previous blog post) "Food for Thought".

I brought my idea up at an IB meeting, and some people seemed eager to join my project :).

Although "Food for Thought" would certainty fulfill my CAS requirements to plan and initiate activities and also work collaboratively with others, I feel that this project goes deeper than that.

Many children in Africa lack the proper facilities for an education, much less funds for educative material. Through our simple raising of money to buy books for children, I am slowly engaging the minds of children by simply giving them a book, fighting the global issue of illiteracy. Thus, when I'm going through with this project, I must keep in consideration the ethical implications of my actions, and not simply view this as another checkmark on my way to the IB diploma.