World of 7 Billion Video

This week we participated in the World of 7 Billion video contest. We could one of the three topics, public, water scarcity, and deforestation. Every topic had 2 or 3 subtopics we could pick from to focus our videos on. The goal was to make a compelling video under 1 minute. I chose public health and women's reproductive rights. Collecting information and statistics wasn't the hard part, fitting it all under one minute was. I found a lot of interesting information about reproductive rates in third world countries and the amount of childbirth-related deaths occur. For example, in Afghanistan, 1 in 11 women will die from pregnancy-relate complications compared to the 1 in 4,300 in developed countries. It's interesting how "simple" the solution really is. By increasing the quality of medical care and educating women about their rights to their bodies/providing contraceptives and family planning, the population growth would decrease and life would be better sustained.  

As much as I would love to be able to post my video, the website won't allow it. 

Twitter Chat

Last week, I decided that my goal for this week was going to be to decide on a date to moderate the school's first Twitter chat on mental health, which will be held on March 1st. The chat is going to be centered around whether or not students feel as if the school supports good mental health and ideas to promote education and awareness within the school. I hope to use the responses from students and teachers to create a campaign that people will really respond to.