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30 th i r ty Global Kids A Reading 1 Right or wrong? Correct the wrong sentences. a Eddie’s school is in NewYork. b Kids like Eddie don’t have any problems with money. c Christina has a job with a software firm. d Shelley isn’t in the same class as Eddie. e Most illegal immigrants don’t go to college. f Nobody was interested in the theater project. 2 Answer the questions. a When did Global Kids start? b What does the organization try to do? “Did you know that many people in the world are poor because they’re sick?” Eddie asks. “No? That was news to me, too, when I joined Global Kids two years ago.” Eddie is excited about a lot of the things he has learned in the last two years. He is a student at Canarsie High School in Brooklyn. Most of the kids there are from poor families, and many of them are immigrants. Only a few top students do well and go to college when they have finished; some drop out of school. This is the kind of school where Global Kids tries to get kids interested in the problems that people have in their own neighborhood and in other countries. “We did this project with Global Kids about poor people all over the world,” Eddie explains. “Although kids like us have enough money problems of their own, it wasn’t boring; it helped me to understand things better. We even made a radio program about our project. Man, was I scared when I had to speak!” “The media are very important in our projects,” says Cristina, one of the organizers. “A software firm has just helped some of our students to create a computer game about the problems of the world’s poor.” Global Kids started in 1991. Since then ‘GK’ has shown thousands of young people that they can make a difference. Eddie’s classmate Shelley is working on another Global Kids project in her free time. “We’re telling New Yorkers about the difficult situation many high school students are in,” she explains. “Students who are illegal immigrants. They can go to school – that’s free for everyone in the US. But most of them can’t go to college. For some kids it’s too expensive. And many of them don’t want to give colleges any information about their families. They’re scared they will have to go back to their own country. We did a theater project about the problem and performed it on the streets of Manhattan last month.” Shelley sounds excited. “People stopped to watch and ask us questions. I loved it because I got the feeling that I was really doing something to help these students!” “That’s what Global Kids is all about,” says Cristina. “The students learn that things can only get better – in Africa or in Brooklyn – if people are active.” 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 CREATING LEADERS THROUGH EXPERIENCE T Test practice A Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv