Tremendous tribute to "Geldof in Africa"

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TOPIC: Tremendous tribute to "Geldof in Africa"

Scottie

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Date: Sat May 31 8:25 PM, 2008

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I think this will mean a lot to Bob, how his TV series changed the way these African students look at themselves and the world. " The End of an Era of Dis-connect This week I shared a few segments of the Sir Bob Geldof video series on Africa with my class.My students live in various cities and towns in the Northwest Province of Cameroon, they are Africans who have no vision of their own continent.They get some television shows from the West, including Oprah twice a week, but their own land is hidden from view. As I watched them discover Africa through Geldofs cameras and commentary, they were completely absorbed.Earlier that day we watched a Discovery Channel video called From Conception to Birth.It is an amazing documentary of couples living their joys and tragedies in attempting to conceive and birth their family.Fascinating technology providing rarely seen images of fetal growth but, no matter how new the imagery, it still inoculated my students with yawns and droopy eyes after the first fifteen minutes. After lunch, a time zone known for sleepiness, I presented Sir Geldof on the big screen.If a command performance could mean it commanded their full attention, then Sir Bobs videos gave a command performance!Planning to show only one segment, they demanded to see all three.Now we know why you are here! they exclaimed.In unison they presented the future they can now see and their yearnings to learn more.For most it was clearly their first request to learn more about this land called Africa and the world in which it resides. This break-through was shattering a thick layer of dis-connect that has entrapped their family for generations.My video ambushed their global disconnect. It is now several days later.They continually attempt to re-dress the class topic to learning more about this world, their world, our world. The end of isolation is still pulsating in my classroom. But we need your help actually we need your magazines. Specifically, subscriptions to National Geographic, The Economist, Newsweek, Time, Inc., Business Week, Ode, Onearth, The Africa Report and other specific African magazines. Would you be willing to buy a subscription and send it to my students? Let me know and we can coordinate who is buying which magazines.I will assemble a list for you to select from.Thanks!" Here is the address: Himalayan Institute Cameroon P.O. Box 114 Kumbo, Bui Division North West Province, Cameroon Office: +(237) 3348-1446 Fax: +(237) 3348-1758 http://www.aliveandhealthy.com/ Article on http://hiprojects.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/teaching-medicine-giving-hope-for-the-future/ -- Edited by Scottie at 21:27, 2008-05-31 __________________ Cheers, keep singing, Scottie "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence". http://twitter.com/#!/BobGeldofFans

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