The Global Care Model for Promoting
Humanitarian Leadership and Global Citizenship in Youth

The practice of Global Care Unlimited is informed by three core assumptions about school-based youth. We assert that youth…

• Crave opportunities to expand their real-life knowledge about the larger world;
  
• Harbor deep humanitarian and moral concerns and seek ways to explore and express them.
  
• Yearn for active participation and leadership roles in humanitarian initiatives that have a tangible impact beyond the schoolhouse door.

Guided by these assumptions, we believe it is a moral and pedagogical imperative to introduce students to various pathways for discovering and expressing their humanitarian identity. Our job as educators is to help our students recognize and understand the realities of social problems worldwide and to guide them in charting their own paths of humanitarian service.

Our Three Step Practice

Global Care promotes the following three steps for developing the capacity of youth to engage in and lead global humanitarian services initiatives:

• Methods and strategies useful in developing an educational unit aimed at creating youth awareness of global humanitarian issues;

• Strategies for developing a student educational presentation for raising awareness within your local school and community regarding a specific topic of humanitarian concern;

• Steps for developing and implementing a youth-led global humanitarian service initiative.

By joining our Youth Coalition, you and your students will receive educational resources to enable your youth group to develop a powerful global humanitarian service initiative.