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We Are The United Nations 2020

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Model United Nations: Mission High School Some Background: A few years ago our teacher, Ms. Shah, was offered the opportunity to bring her students to the  Model United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland .  She initially declined the opportunity due to the lack of funds and the size of the task.  However, after some time had elapsed, her motivated class of 2018 decided to fundraise, and started a GoFundMe page while also selling different foods and products at school sales whenever possible.  Thanks to their efforts of fundraising, giving a pitch at DropBox and the immense help of the Mission High Foundation, the class of 2018 was able to raise more than $20,000 in order to fly to Geneva and participate in this incredible conference. Class of 2020: We are Peer Resources students who are enrolled in our second year of the Educator Pathway Program, we are also running the Model United Nations club here at MHS.  Together we would like to carry on the legacy of the Peer Resources stu
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We Are The United Nations

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1. Who We Are: We are a group of diverse and EMPOWERED city students who have traveled together in the past in order to spread a message of social justice, love, acceptance and change in the world.  Last year we traveled to Santa Rosa High School where we presented who we are and our stories to over 1,000 of our peers/students at the school read about us here at this NEA article: Empowered city students take diversity on the road A Brief Video Introduction: We are: Yadira Del Valle: I am a Chicana born and raised in San Francisco. I grew up in the Mission District where Latinx Culture is valued. Being in the Mission is difficult, there was a lot of gang violence which has been going down due to the fact that many people of low income are being displaced thanks to gentrification. My classmates and I got to travel to Santa Rosa to do a presentation which informed them on gentrification and other issues such as Islamophobia and homophobia all which we learned fr
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