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Children's Enrichment Program was invited to participate in a Plan International project called GEODYSSEO. The students will conduct collaborate projects with students at Plan sites in countries in Africa and South America. Their greetings will be delivered on motorcycle by Frederic Journoud, as he visits Senegal, Mali, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.

For their first phase of the project, students wrote letters to the Senegal students-and to the students around the world-challenging them to identify and act on their own convictions. Here are excerpts of some of their letters.

Dear Friend. Hi, I'm Raven. I'm in third grade and nine years of age. I attend Children's Enrichment Program. We have habits-of-heart. This week's habit-of-heart is acting on convictions. A conviction is a strong belief in something. Around the world we have global challenges, like ending wars around the world. My conviction is to end war and try to bring world peace. I mean, wouldn't you want it? If every one got along, how would you feel and why? How can us children help end wars? Your friend, Raven

Dear Raven. We agree with you, war is not good we have to stop it. Many innocents are killed such as women, children old people. War brings poverty and illnesses. Members of the group you shared your letter are:

Fatou Bintou THIAM, 12 years old
Lena DIOp, 12
Ndeye Daba DIAGNE, 11
Assane SOW, 13
Sine Faye, 13
Our group's name is Reconnaissance which means "Recognition", we are attending the school of Ndiouwdoune. Bye!
Dear Friend. My name is Steven. I'm eight years old. I'm in the 2nd grade, and I live in Los Angeles, California. I attend the Children's Enrichment Program. I am learning Acting on Your Convictions. My conviction is to end world hunger. How can you and I end world hunger together? We can grow healthy foods and donate them to the homeless folks so their muscles can be healthy and so they can have healthy kidneys. Do you think you can help? Write me back if you think you can help. Sincerely, Steven

Dear Steven, My name is Maguette Sow. I am 12 years old and I attend the 6th grade. I live in Ndiaoudoune (senegal). We shared your ideas and we think, we can help to fight against World hunger. First, we have to fight against war, we have also to assist people living in poor communities by providing them with food and drugs. The name of our group is SAF SAP and the members are:

Pape Mouhamed Aidara, 12 years
Maguette Sow 12,
Seynabou Diagne, 13
Fatou Diagne, 11
Seynabou Diagne, 11
Youm Mboup, 11
Best wishes
Dear Friend. My name is Maahogany. I'm in the second grade. I am seven. I am learning about acting on your convictions. This means you have a strong belief in something. My conviction is getting medicines to help fight diseases. Maybe we can write letters to doctors around the world asking them to donate medicine to places that don't have them. Do you have any ideas? From, Mahogany

Dear friend Mohagany, Our convictions are to struggle against diseases and to have enough drugs for people suffering from any kind of disease. We also have to do a lot of sensitisation to promote individual and collective hygiene which is the best way to avoid diseases. Our group is named "Diam laye Niane" (praying for peace), the members are:

Seynabou Diop, 15 yars old
Awa Diop, 10 years old
Awa diop, 10 years
Marime Mboup, 12 years
Aly Sow, 12 years
Aby Sow, 12 yeas
Birahim Dieng, 14 years
Ibrahima Mbaye, 13 years
Your friends
Dear Friend. My name is Manny and I'm in the second grade. My conviction is education for all kids. This means every child should be able to go to school for free. Maybe you and I can write letters to the presidents of other countries saying every child should have to go to school and it should be free. Write back and let me know what you think. From, Manny

Dear Manny, Greetings from DIAM (peace) group. We attend the 5th and 6th grades, primary school. We are so proud of your letters. We think that everyone has to attend school and learn how to read and write. Each child has to be free. We agree with you.
Here, the government is setting up a politic to help children to attend French school, through a program named "Education for all within year 2015". Members of our group are :

Lena Sow : 11 years
Mame Awa Fall 10 years
Seynabou Diallo 12 years
Fara Diop, 11 years
Makhtar Dieng, 12 years
Alioune Thiam, 12 years

Dear Friend. Hello, my name is Jordan. I am 10 years old. I am in the 5th grade... One of my convictions is find a way to help cure deadly diseases. People die of disease every day, and I think we should stop it. Can you think of any convictions? Sincerely, Jordan

Dear Jordan, Greetings ! How are you ?
We are so proud of your letter and we thank you very much.
We are five boys and three girls in our group, three of us are attending the 4th grade, two the 5th grade and three attend the 6th grade.
There is cholera (a kind of diarrhea disease) in our country. Some people died from it and other people are suffering from many other diseases. Hence, we agree with you, we have a lot to do, to cure or simply eradicate deadly diseases. Our group leader is named Cheikh DIOP. He is 12 years old. The other members are:

Khady DIOP 13 years old
Oumar DIOP 10
Adia FALL 10
Birahine DIOP 10
Khady DIOP 11
Mor THIAM 13
Ousseynou FAYE 12
The group is named "Citoyens du monde" Citizens of the World". Your friends
Dear Friend. I'm nine years old, I'm in the third grade and I live in the United States. Right now, I'm learning about global challenges like world hunger. It's the same as acting on your convictions. What can you do to improve literature? I could sell books. What about you?

Another of my convictions is that we should end world hunger. We should grow plants to keep people healthy. We need vegetables and fruits. You could grow health foods where you live and then donate them to the homeless, so they can stay healthy and live long. My conviction is also that all kids should have education to survive. Kids need to know math, science, reading, language, and the writing progress. All kids and adults need to know all those subjects for many reasons. Sincerely, Noah

Dear Noah, Like you, we think that to end hunger we should grow a lot of healthy foods such as vegetables, fruits and cereals. We should also implement cattle breeding projects in order to donate meat to children and adults living in poor communities. In fact, we also agree with you that education is important and is the base of everything. Here we are encouraging parents to send their children to school. Friendly.
Our group is named "Dego" (mutual understanding) and the members are the following:

Thiawda 13 years old.
Khady 13
Malick 10
Mohan 12
Rokhaya 11
Yacine 13
Mame Khady 11

Dear Friend. My strong conviction is stopping child abuse. The reason I want to stop child abuse is because over one million children in this world have died from child abuse. Also, several children have been severely injured by getting abused. Do you have any convictions? When you have a conviction, you should share it with somebody, because people can help you solve them... Your friend, Shari

Dear Shari, Here, presently our real conviction is to stop cholera and all other infectious diseases. These days, many people are suffering from it. It is a contagious and deadly disease.
We also agree with you that we need to do something to stop child abuse, even here in Senegal, Children are suffering from this issue.
Group members are :

Siny 13 year old
Ibrahima 13
Abdou 8
Amadou 9
Fatou 10
Medoune 10
Alioune 12
Rokhaya 10
The group's leader is named Alioune FALL.
Dear Friend. To act on your convictions means to always believe in what YOU believe in. And convictions itself means to believe in it strongly. My conviction is to give us a cleaner environment. Personally, I think making a cleaner environment is easy. It's like keeping a house clean. Just remember to always pick up your trash, and if you see people litter, just remind them to pickup after themselves and sometimes do a little cleaning. So basically, it's easy to make a cleaner environment. Sincerely, Kaylin

Dear Friend Kaylin. We, as well as our environment must be clean to keep good health. We should stop putting the rubbish everywhere in the streets and we should also keep our habitat clean and safe. We have to put the rubbish in a bag where children can't be in touch with. We have to clean the toilets everyday.
Our group name is "mbolo" (Unity) and the members are the following:

Moussa Fall, 10 years
Maguette Diop, 9
Bilal Faye, 9
Guitte Daigne, 10
Mame Ana Diagne, 10
Fatou Diop, 11
Sata Mbodj, 13
Djibril Faye, 13

Dear Friend. My name is JMarah. I am nine years old. I attend the Children's Enrichment Program. I like coming here. I am learning about convictions. I have a conviction about ending poverty. We can donate food and clothes to the homeless. At the Children's Enrichment Program, we donate things to the homeless. You can always share your beliefs. Your friend, JMarah

Dear Friend JMarah. Hi, our group is named SAF SAP. We are so proud of you. Our village is named Ndiawdoune. It is located 14 kilometres far from Saint Louis City, just on the National highway. Now there is a bad illness which is called cholera. It is also called the "illness of dirty hands". There are also homeless in our community who need support from rich people.
Our group is composed of 3 boys and 4 girl, all studying in the elementary school, the members are the following:

Mandiaye Diop 11 years old
Ndeye Fatou Samb 11 years
Ndeye Fatou Fall 11 years
Mane Diop 11 years
Birahim Diop 11 years
Arame Seck 10 years
Mara Fall 10 years

Dear Buddy. You're my friend, and I want to tell you about my global convictions. I can tell you about a few of my convictions. My convictions are, help stop crime and--please don't laugh at this just because you don't want to--you have to recycle or else the whole world will be dirty, dirty, dirty. It will be so dirty that all the people in the whole entire world will be sick, even you. And please can you help make new jobs and help make peace. But one thing I have to ask you, what are your convictions? I pray for you every night. From a seven-year old boy named Ryen

Dear Ryen, Hi! we are so proud of your good idea. So we hope that all will be successful as your whishes. In fact, It is a bad thing to dump the streets, by throwing rubbish everywhere. The flies can bring so much illnesses such as dysentery, diarrhea, cholera, measles which can affect many people in the village.
Our group is named "Belles Etoile" (lovely star)

We are Amadou 11 year old
Oulimata 13
Baye Fara 12
Seydou 10
Albert 12
Fatou 11
Mame 12
We too, we are praying for you and all other children in the World
Dear Friend. My name is Eryn Akins. I'm 8 years old. My conviction is ending world hunger. I can end world hunger by growing healthy foods and giving canned foods to the homeless. Can you give canned foods and grow healthy foods where you live? Sincerely, Eryn

Dear Eryn, Greetings from Senegal, We were very glad to receive your letter, in our group we try to understand the content and we appreciate a lot your convictions consisting to fight against hunger. This is great, as we are living in a developing country were there is a high rate of poverty. Where we cannot give canned foods, but we can help our parents to grow more vegetables and cereal in order to share with poorest people.
Our group members are:

Thieka Seye, 10 years,
Modou Diop 9
Samba Faty, 11
Gora Sarr, 10
Naty Dieye, 9
Mamy Kebe, 10

Dear Buddy. I will help people in India or other countries and states because I want to see a smile on their face always. I will sell them food that they need. I don't want the innocent people to die. What do you want to do to help other people? Write about it. Then you can help other countries and states in a place where there is poorness and hunger. From Teo, age 9

Dear Teo, Greetings, I tell you about my place. Life is nice here but some people is suffering from poverty. We practice farming. Our village is called Ndiawdoune, at 14 kilometres from Saint Louis. Some families are facing many difficulties preventing them to have better live. So we have to help them in fighting against poverty. Right now, there is a bad illness which is called cholera in some regions of the country.
Our group is named "gorgorlu" and the members are the following:

Mane Fall, 10 years
Oumar Diop, 10 years
Fatou Fall, 10 years
Arona Diop, 8 years
Ami Ka, 10 years
Ndeye Sene Faye, 9 years
Ismaila Thioune, 10 years
Sadio Dieng, 10 years

Dear Friend. My global conviction is to recycle. My global conviction is recycling because I want people not to litter and if they do, I will pick it up and go to the recycling center, so we don't waste the items. Do you have a conviction?...When we help the world with our global convictions, maybe we can send letters to the other people and ask them about global convictions. Sincerely, Mahal

Dear friend Mahal, Our convictions are:
To fight against poverty, create a healthier environment and fight against malaria. To fight against poverty, the government is providing some goods (food, oil, rice seeds tomatoes, etc...). to live in a healthy environment, we should have a correct waste disposal systems and we should avoid putting the rubbish and dirty water around the houses. In Senegal, there are many thieves and aggressors due to poverty and lack of job opportunities. Yes we have convictions and we would like to share and learn from others maybe through letter writing.
Our group is named "Jappo" (working together) and the members are :

Moussa Diop, 12 years
Ibrahima Fay, 11 years
Mawade Fall, 11 years
Mouhamed Sall, 12 years
Mame Djoye Diop, 10
Oulimata Fall, 10
Bouya Diop, 8
Ramatoulaye Thiam, 9

Dear Friend. Do you know what a global conviction is? If not, I will tell you what it is. A global conviction is a strong belief in something. Like for me, my mext conviction is to stop crime... I want to stop murder stealing and other crimes. What are your convictions, right now or it can be when you grow up. Name 1-5 things that you believe in. I want every one to be successful. From Jaime, age 10

Dear friend Jaime, The name of our group is "Kanigui". It is composed of 9 persons with 4 girls and 5 boys. Thank you for sharing your convictions with us. We too, we do have some, but right now, in our Country, there is a bad illness which is called cholera (an infectious disease) that is contagious and is killing many people. Hence, our prior objective is to see how we could contribute in stopping it.
Our group's members are:

Aby Sow 10 years
Yacine Faye 10 years
Oulimata Mbodj 9 years
The boy's name are ;

Amadou Thiam 10 years
Adoulah Diop 9 years
Oumar Sow 9 years
Aziz 9 years
The group's leader is Cheikhna Fall
Dear Friend. My name is Douglas. I like to do fun things like playing games. I am a nice person to know. I like to make people laugh... I have global convictions. Like why won't there be world peace. Stop child bause. Help educate the people who aren't educated. I want to know if you have any global convictions. Sincerely, Douglas, Age 11

Dear friend Douglas, We attend Ndiawdoune School (Senegal). My group's name is "rewi". We would like to work hard at School to assist our parents. We will also do a lot of awareness among adults to encourage them to send girls at school. Here, girls, often stay at home and help their mother with the households. We hate war, we need peace.
Our group's members are:

Awa gueye 13 years
Fatimata Ba 12 years
Khardiata Ka 12 years
Aida Mbodj 13 years
Alassane Diop 10 years
Ndeye fatou Faye 11 years
Awa Faye 11 years

Dear Friends. We have learned about world hunger. How do you want to help people when you grow up? I brung cane food (sic) to the homeless. From, Chynna

Dear friend Chynna, We hope to assist people to have food. We hate war. We would like all the children to attend school.
Our group is named "Door mu danou" we are:

Adama Diop 13 years
Mbenda Diop 12 years
Mbengue Diagne 9 years
Khady Ndiaye 11 years
Adama Ba 12 years
Alioune Badara Ndour 12 years
Massamba Diaw 10 years

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