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MCIC launches Global Citizens exhibit
Posted August 3rd 2009
Global Citizens: Manitobans Working Together for a Better World exhibit on display at the Manitoba Legislature.
The Manitoba Council for International Cooperation has created an exhibit, highlighting Manitoba’s role in the global community and profiling organizations in the province who are making positive change in our world. The Global Citizens: Manitobans Working Together for a Better World exhibit, which is touring the province in conjunction with MCIC’s 35th Anniversary, features photographs, stories and video from international projects with Manitoba connections. It also explores how Manitobans are making a difference through their local actions and asks visitors to make a commitment and be a Global Citizen.
The exhibit also details specific achievements by international projects. For example, since 2004, 27,000 lives have been saved by malaria prevention mosquito nets in Tanzania. In Haiti, thousands are treated and cured each year for Tuberculosis and other serious diseases at Grace Children’s Hospital. Much of this is due to the work of extraordinary Manitobans.
“Our exhibit celebrates the spirit of global citizenship in this province by highlighting some exciting and very tangible results being achieved in different parts of the world,” says Hamilton.
The exhibit will tour Manitoba in 2009 - 2010. It has already visited the Manitoba Legislature, the New Iceland Heritage Museum in Gimli, The Forks Marketplace and the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery. Several other tour dates are scheduled throughout the province. The exhibit’s next stop is the Engineering 3 atrium at the University of Manitoba. It will be on display as part of the International Centre for Students World W.I.S.E. Resource Centre’s World Opportunities Week from October 27 to November 5, 2009.
View an online gallery of the exhibit here.
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