STUDENT-TO-STUDENT CONNECTIONS

Friendship Quilt Project – Student Writings

Topic:  What membership in Global Care means to the students

• Global Care Unlimited helps people around the world.
• Global Care isn’t just some club that people go to three times a week, it is a mission.
• Being part of Global Care means that I am part of the world.
• Global Care is a family. We all are going out of our way to do something for the world. To be part of something like this is an honor.
• Global Care allows me to reach out with the compassion I have, and use it, to a potential that I could not use before.
• Global Care is the place where there are no limitations.
• Global Care Unlimited empowers me to become a better person.
• Global Care shows that you want to be part of the world and where you can offer your support.
• Friendship and kindness fuels everyone here.
• We are helping people halfway around the world, which seems almost impossible.
• Global Care is here so we can help those in need.
• Global Care means helping kids across the world to try to enhance their lifestyles.
• Global Care is the joining of different people through one common cause.
• Global Care is doing what seems impossible.
• Global care gives me the energy and the feeling that can make me change the world.
• Global care unites my mind, body and my spirit, together to form a conscious soul.
• Global Care is making a difference for people all over the world.
• Global Care taught me what a true humanitarian is: someone who not only gives, but gives their all. 
• Global Citizenship is not just a class or club; it’s more of a way of life. 
• Global Care means to lend a hand to people here and people across the world.  We think of others and do things we can never imagine doing.  We have a group of hard-working, compassionate people that want to lend a hand.
• Global care is the gateway to my dream. 
• Global Care unlocks something in my life, so that I can be able to use it for the good of the people around the world.
• The reason why I participate in Global Care is to enlighten and educate people and hopefully make a difference in the world we all live in. 
• I want to help students to learn and grow into people who will change the world.
  

Topic:  Power of Education

• Education is the driving force of this world.
• Education is the gateway to success in every area of life.

Topic:  Inspirational and Supportive Wishes for the EAFS students

• You have a chance to make the world different, to make a change and make the world better. 
• You are the future. 
• I believe in you, and so does all of Global Care Unlimited.   You just have to believe in yourself.
• Making a difference isn’t easy but if you believe, it can happen.
• You can and you will. We can and we will. Now, let’s do it.
• We can defy all borders, stifle all things that tell us “no.”

Topic:  Global Citizenship

• I’m a global citizen, and I’m proud of helping build the Ethio-American Friendship School.
• We are all Global Citizens, whose job is to help and care for those in need.
• Global Citizenship is to love, care, and help everyone around us, not only the people we know.
• One step at a time, we, as global citizens, will help the world.
• We do not have to see the people we help.
• It makes me proud to say that I have helped the global community flourish.
• As humans we are responsible to help each other and take care of the planet.

Topic:  Youth Making a Difference/Empowerment

• If we don’t start contributing as a kid, we may never help the world.
• The Ethio-American Friendship School is more than just a school: it’s a monument to youth having power in the world.
• Connected by a spark, a dream, something engulfing me to help change the world.

Topic:  Compassion

• You only need a heart to help.
• It is important for us all to make a difference.
• There are people thousands of miles away from us who would be so happy for the things we take for granted.
• There are no limits to caring.
• I want to help those in need.

Connections

• We are connected by the single string of the Ethio-American Friendship School.
• Thousands of miles away and here we are making connections to people we have never met.
• Our connection is a bond.
• We are all the same: We have friends, we have family and fun.  The only thing that separates us is a plane ride to visit each other.
• I want to meet you as my friend and spend a lifetime knowing you better.
• I may never see you, ever meet you, but we are still connected.
• Let’s make this journey a lasting one.
• Those children in Africa that we have never even met, that we go out of our way to help, they are our brothers and sisters.
• We can share this dream together.
• We are here for you.
• Together, we have the power to connect.
• To everyone else, it seems far away, but to us, all it takes is stretching out our arms.