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September 11, 2006
UNICEF and YOU
수익금 모두가 후원금으로 지원되는 유니세프 자선 콘서트 초대를 받고서, 바쁜 아침 일과를 마치고 파주 캠프로 차를 돌렸다. 도착하니 7시 5분, 당황한 마음으로 콘서트 홀로 들어가니 이제 막 오프닝 쇼가 시작되었다 한다.
손길이 닿을 수 있다면 조그만 정성이라도 후원이 될 수 있음을 알기에, 지구촌 구석구석 자원 봉사 활동을 찾아 마음을 전달하는 것이 얼마만큼 생활에 기쁨을 주는가를 알기에, 컴퓨터 검색도 마음도 시간도 항상 바쁘다.
지난 학기 동안 조각 시간을 내어 아이들과 토론의 장을 열어주었던 주제 중 하나 역시 유니세프였었다. 가르치는 한 사람으로서 교실 현장에서 학동들에게 글로벌 이슈 학습 과정은 언어 교육과 더불어 언제나 통합 수업이었다. 이리하여 얻어진 닉네임, GI Teacher!
콘서트는 버라이어티 쇼 형태로 뮤지컬, 연주와 노래, 단막극등 여러 주제를 담은 안무, 탭 댄스, 핸즈 댄스, 탱고 댄스, 사인 랭귀지, 쿵따리 사바라, 그리고 쇼 호스트의 재치와 입담은 관객들을 웃음으로 몰아 넣곤 했다. 새로운 감각의 에듀테이너들의 땀과 노력으로 웃음과 눈물이 교감하던 시간이었다.
콘서트 중 몇 컷 담아온 사진들이다.
A New World
Suppertime
For Every Child
아래는 유니세프 사이트이며, 사진과 기사 몇편 올린다.
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund For every child
Delivering quality, child-centred education in Pakistan’s earthquake zone
By Hugh Delaney
BATTAGRAM, Pakistan, 8 September 2006 – Eight-year-old Parveen is once again getting used to life in her new tented classroom, following the end of the summer holidays. When the earthquake that affected so much of northern Pakistan struck in October 2005, her old school building was totally destroyed, forcing teachers to suspend classes due to lack of available shelter. …(이하 생략)
Falling behind: In Kenya, drought threatens children’s education and dims their hopes
RIFT VALLEY PROVINCE, Kenya, 30 May 2006 – The drought crippling the Horn of Africa is particularly dangerous for children. Besides the immediate threat of malnutrition and dehydration, their future is at risk because so many boys and girls are being forced to drop out of school. The burden on children: Searching for scarce resources in drought-stricken Somalia BAKOOL REGION, Somalia, 23 May 2006 – The families walk for days across the vast parched landscape of southern Somalia, children and goats in tow, following rumours of rain. Finally, rare showers bring them to a halt around fresh watering holes and they settle down. Just hours later, though, all that’s left are puddles of fetid water. Nuuriyo Ibrahim Abdirahm, 12, is scooping water from the shallow pool in a plastic cup, literally cup by cup, trying to avoid too much silt. This is Nuuriyo’s life. She spends her days collecting water, or in search of water. She has never been to school, has never known what it’s like to have running water at home. 
In the case of Eunice Malipe, 17, the drought killed all of her family's 500 head of cattle here in northeastern Kenya. Even though the rains finally arrived last month, it was too late. With the death of the last cow, any means of paying her school fees vanished.
“I feel so much pain because my friends from school have finished their exams and moved on,” she says. “I'm stuck at home and nobody is helping me. Nobody knows my pain. Sometimes I go three days with no food." Eunice spends long days cleaning, gathering firewood and preparing what little food the family can find. Across the Horn of Africa, there are countless children facing a similar plight. Dropping out of school is common for children in all of the Horn countries – not only Kenya, but also Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.
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