Talking is good, Acting is better

Hello everyone ! 

 

The school year has been a very productive year for all of us !

prESenTAtions, LaughS, EmbARRASsmeNT, EXhiLARATION (yesyesyesss), Reflection, dESPaIR (yesyesyess), dEbAtES but also a lot of ACTION!

As OIB students  we tend to  talk and write  a lot, to think deeply and to ask ourselves existential questions. 

But this year was not only nice words and big hopes, We*implemented concrete actions in order to get a little bit involved at our scale in our School but also in our society . 

Ideals are good but we should always think concrete and realize that there is a lot to do and we can or even HAVE to get involved.

 Who is going to act if we, students between 15 and 18 years old, only stay watching the world as if it was a sort of movie where you can get angry, be horrified but still be seated on your couch doing nothing ?

 

So here is a small recap on everything we did with the MDL, the Awareness Club, the Collectif du 29 avril in order to do even more next year !

December 2017, World Aids Day :

• training on HIV/AIDS prevention and protection strategies with CRIPS PACA
• prevention activities (stand, posters,...)
• condom distribution
• fund raising for the NGO Sidaction

January 2018, creation of the Awareness club :

• Helping those in need next to us. Raising awareness on the frequent invisibility and loneliness of those suffering from poverty, sickness or old age.
• Donation drive for the Restos du Coeur (MDL) + leaflets distribution

February 2018:

• Promoting education and literacy in third world countries
• READATHON, promoting literacy and equal education with Room to Read =we've raised more than 2,300 € !
• Symbolic event to promote the Readathon in the school library

March 2018 :

• Celebrating gender equality, diversity and multiculturalism.
• Women's day (women's right in the world, sexism at school, consent) + screening of two documentary films (Feminism, Consent) + intervention Planning Familial

April- May 2018 :

• Eco-citizenship, photographic mosaic 1 Piece of Rubbish

Added to all these events some of the OIB students got involved during the year  in the Collectif du 29 avril , a collective of students and professors supporting undocumented students:

• bake sales
• petitions
• food drive
  
  
  Can't wait to see all of you very active in September :p 
  
  
   WE* is a mix of  committed students (including some OIB students but not only) and teachers from different classes at the Lycée Saint Charles .