We Change the World: How to Live in 2015 and Beyond

Young people in Berlin joined with students from Radio Paix Sanwi Ivory Coast, Radio Miraya in South Sudan, and Pachamama Media Project in Spain via radio network and web portal connections in their classrooms. Via microphones and shared computers or projected realtime computer connections, they held conference-style meetings to exchange ideas on their countries' needs and their hopes for the future in order to begin to respond to the United Nations (UN) process of looking beyond the year 2015, which is the final year of the reach of the MDGs.

Their goal is to ensure that "all children in the world attain education, live in a safer and better environment, and that women, men, girls and boys are treated equally."

The students engaged with both a representative of development agency GIZ (the German Society for International Cooperation), who paid a visit in person to the class, and attendees at the World Innovation Summit for Education, via the internet, with whom they shared their thinking on making the world better in 2015. The students in Berlin then joined with students of Pachamama Media Project to produce a video (below) on MDG 4: reduce child mortality.

Children, Youth, Education, Health

Based in Germany, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network is an international non-profit initiative producing educational and entertaining radio and online content for and with children aged 3-13 on all 5 continents. Its core emphasis is on bringing kids from Europe (particularly Germany) together in joint radio-based projects with peers throughout that continent - as well as in more distant places like Africa and North America. Radio is a tool here for connecting schools, community radio stations, and/or culture/media initiatives that engage children seeking to learn about each other's lives, cultures, and history. The ultimate goal is to foster intercultural understanding.