Update from ProjectStudents take on world's challenges

(India and US) Students take on world's challenges. Christian Science Monitor Online. Online March 2006. Stacy A. Teicher. American and Indian students forge bonds while tackling world-class problems: Private school students in Philadelphia and Jabalpur, India, this past year collaborated through videoconferencing and e-mail to create a Web site to match wealthy hospitals with poor Indian ones in need of supplies. The award-winning project was part of a National Association of Independent Schools effort to get students thinking about solving global problems. … former World Bank vice president Jean-François Rischard said … "Encouraging students to think of themselves as global citizens first, then as national citizens, and then as local members of a community is the most powerful thing you can do."