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Smriti wrote a new post, CDNIS families supporting HK’s homeless with ImpactHK, on the site Taking Action 3 weeks, 4 days ago
A group of students and parents walked with Impact HK on Sunday evening.
The group met at the Guestroom near Sham Shui Po, and loaded up with bedding, oranges and bottles of water which were labelled to let the […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, E-club’s Shek O beach cleanup and zero-waste veggie potluck lunch!, on the site Taking Action 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Sunshine, a sea breeze and the smell of rotting meat with maggots?! What a way to start our Sunday! Members of the e-club, friends and family joined on Sunday, the 25th of March to spend their morning cleaning a […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, The Power of Words – public speaking meets global issues!, on the site Taking Action 1 month, 3 weeks ago
A huge success to the public speakers of our community! On January 10th and 11th of 2018, the Young Masters Gavel Club and the GIN Clubs came together for the second annual Gavel x GIN Speech Competition, yielding […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Amnesty International @ CDNIS, on the site Taking Action 2 months, 1 week ago
“The Vow of Silence was a simple yet effective activity that met the goals of the event: to advocate for those whose voices are heard or are unable to voice their opinions. By simulating this experience for the […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Cooking For a Cause – supporting refugees in Chung King Mansions, on the site Taking Action 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Cooking For A Cause (CFC) was started 5 years ago by a small group of passionate CDNIS students towards the refugee issue in Hong Kong. Since then, the club has grown to 50+ dedicated members who bring positive […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Phillip, refugees & the New York Times essay competition: many ways to take action!, on the site Taking Action 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A multi-pronged action project spurred by interaction with refugees during the summer of 2016, led Phillip to take more hands-on and creative approaches. Read about his experiences:
“The refugee crisis is s […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, UNICEF Food Drive for Feeding HK, on the site Taking Action 2 months, 2 weeks ago
UNICEF hosted two rounds of a food drive from October 30th-November 3rd and November 27th-December 1st 2017 for the NGO Feeding Hong Kong. Feeding Hong Kong is responsible for bringing surplus food to crisis sh […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Small Plastic, Big Problem – Ellie @ the Ocean Summit 2018, on the site Taking Action 2 months, 2 weeks ago
“ACT YOUR WAY TO A NEW WAY OF THINKING!” – Ellie Cottrell
Ellie Cottrell, a Grade 12 student, taking Geography HL was one of the keynote speakers at the Volvo World Ocean Race’s “Ocean Summit” on 22nd January […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, UNICEF Winter clothes drive, on the site Taking Action 2 months, 2 weeks ago
UNICEF’s recent clothing drive, held 15-19 January 2018, was organised with the aim of helping local NGO Christian Action to support refugees in need of winter clothing. Although spring approaches, there are sti […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, AYP: action within CDNIS & beyond!, on the site Taking Action 3 months ago
The Award for Young People (formerly known as Duke of Edinburgh) is a program spearheaded by Mr. Hamilton years ago and has since developed into a comprehensive experience that is topped-off with a multi-day […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, How Education is a Right; and what a CDNIS teacher has done about it, on the site Taking Action 3 months, 2 weeks ago
A Lower School Teacher, Rebecca Tupling truly believes that education should be accessible to everyone and has created two projects (one in Ontario, Canada and the other in Mwanza, Tanzania) to help promote […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Refugees advocacy through a spelling bee?!, on the site Taking Action 4 months, 1 week ago
On Thursday November 16, RESPECT successfully organised our school’s first spelling bee in recent memory! Contestants from grades 9-12 put their spelling acumen to the test as they competed for the chance to win t […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, “beGIN 2017” – GIN852 World Issues Conference, on the site Taking Action 4 months, 2 weeks ago
As is annual tradition, CDNIS sent delegates to the GIN852 Conference held at Discover College. This year’s theme was “beGIN” and to act on this, students were divided into five GANGs to collaborate and create sol […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Staff Action: Animal rights in Abu Dhabi, on the site Taking Action 5 months ago
Ms. Bonnie Calanchini (Lower School) writes:
While living in Abu Dhabi, I was broken hearted to see the ponies at the local shopping mall, standing for many hours in the heat without food or water, on hot […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, “Paint your… HOUSE!” Habitat for Humanity & Lower School!, on the site Taking Action 5 months ago
The goal of this campaign was to not only raise awareness for the issue of inadequate housing through fundraising and active advocacy campaigning but to also provide the opportunity for Lower and Upper school […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Talks by Upper School students to Gr. 5s about refugees & taking action, on the site Taking Action 5 months, 4 weeks ago
On Wednesday, 18th October 2017, Upper School students from 3 refugee support clubs presented shared the current realities of refugees living in Hong Kong and how their clubs try to help in areas of literacy, food […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Peace Day – Flag competition winners!, on the site Taking Action 5 months, 4 weeks ago
For International Day of Peace on the 21st of September, one of the activities was to identify the flags on the ceiling of the 9th floor main entrance, and 4 students from Gr. 4 & 5 had the most number of […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Habitat For Humanity Popcorn & Italian Soda sale, on the site Taking Action 5 months, 4 weeks ago
The goal of this campaign was to increase community awareness on the role of Habitat at our school as well as the need for adequate housing and fundraise money to subsidize build trips for future trip […]
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Smriti wrote a new post, Peace Day – 21st September, on the site Taking Action 6 months, 4 weeks ago
CDNIS celebrated International Day of Peace on 21st September with peace flags, puzzles, a ‘Paths to Peace’ forest mural, student advisory discussions and a vibrant musical number “Peace on Earth”. BIG THANK Y […]
