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Learning Our Past to Sustain Our Shared Futures
(1) CHamoru fishing illustrated by JA Pellion. Courtesy of the Guam Public Library; (2) CHamoru youth and elder. Courtesy of Rene Mahone/ MARC. (3) Young Marianas History Conference Participant.
When the United Nations just and sustainable world. adopted the 2030 Agenda UNESCO’s Futures of for Sustainable Development Education initiative was in 2015, the international designed to bring the world community recognized that together to reimagine how education is essential for the education can shape our success of all of its 17 goals. shared futures. As part of this Goal four aims to “ensure effort, the International Day of inclusive and equitable quality Education (IDE) was enacted, education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” by 2030. Education is one of the key ways we address inequality, exclusion and work on healing our damaged planet. Doing so helps us make a peaceful, Click this image to watch a
video by UNESCO
and this year’s IDE, January 24, will serve as a platform to showcase the most important transformations that need to occur to strengthen education as a global common good. Serving the local and global community for the past 13 years through public and private support, Guampedia, as a community-based project, reflects Guam’s collective commitment to strengthening education as a local and global common good! Guampedia’s visitor statistics is a testament Continued on page two
