Descriptions of MANGOs (MAIA NGOs)

top image In order to serve our community, at home and beyond, and to prepare students for philanthropy and global consciousness, MAIA has developed several organizations, institutes and programs - MAIA’“NGOs.” These projects will initially function as non profit organizations within the UM context but in the future, they may incorporate separately.

Our projects all operate under the umbrella of the Institute for Global Education (iGlobE for short). At present, iGlobE is run solely by the MAIA program but it may grow as nothing like it exists currently in Miami. It is modeled after the Atlanta based Southern Center for Global Education, a non profit organization which provides educational materials, both print and video, to schools in its region. IGlobe aspires to provide not only that service but to initiate more global activities in Miami. Some of the activities include:

Adopt the World: Learn About It
The MAIA program, along with our co-sponsor, the Miami-Dade Public School System, initiated Adopt the World: Learn About It in response to surveys about gaps in university, secondary and elementary school global affairs education. A recent APSIA report described the neglect of global affairs in secondary and university education as a national catastrophe. The US is the global hegemon and most American jobs, regardless of the field, therefore have a global ramification or at least a global component. If students leave American secondary schools and universities unprepared and ignorant on the subject of global affairs this could have dire consequences for the nation within a decade when the new generation takes over.

We intend to rectify this problem through the following activities:

Work with teachers on curricula to see where global elements can be inserted
Prepare print materials and videos--making them available to teachers from the MAIA webpage and downloadable to ipods.
Develop criteria to guide schools in how to best incorporate a global affairs education.
A ceremony hosted by UM to celebrate the schools which have successfully “adopted the world.”
IGlobe will fundraise for scholarships and fellowships for students from the Third World to come to MAIA.

MAIA for Maya

This organization will provide service to medical missions which make regular trips to the mountains of Guatemala in order to bring medical care to the indigenous Mayans, who often live in abject poverty. Students will fundraise, develop educational materials to be distributed to the Mayans, and publicize the medical missions to the South Florida community and beyond.

Religion and World Affairs

As Religion and World Affairs is an under-discussed topic in the field of International Relations, we are interested in fundraising for conferences, seminars, and educational materials about this topic. We have begun to work on this already by producing a TV program about religious conflict along with students from the School of Communication.

The World at Risk

MAIA is also co-sponsoring, along with the UM School of Communication, a lecture series entitled The World at Risk. We will be bringing prominent speakers such as Kofi Annan to address the Miami community about how to mitigate current threats to global security such as nuclear war, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and epidemics.




	MAIA Home > MAIA NGOs(MANGOs) Descriptions of MANGOs (MAIA NGOs) In order to serve our community, at home and beyond, and to prepare students for philanthropy and global consciousness, MAIA has developed several organizations, institutes and programs - MAIA’“NGOs.” These projects will initially function as non profit organizations within the UM context but in the future, they may incorporate separately. Our projects all operate under the umbrella of the Institute for Global Education (iGlobE for short). At present, iGlobE is run solely by the MAIA program but it may grow as nothing like it exists currently in Miami. It is modeled after the Atlanta based Southern Center for Global Education, a non profit organization which provides educational materials, both print and video, to schools in its region. IGlobe aspires to provide not only that service but to initiate more global activities in Miami. Some of the activities include: Adopt the World: Learn About It The MAIA program, along with our co-sponsor, the Miami-Dade Public School System, initiated Adopt the World: Learn About It in response to surveys about gaps in university, secondary and elementary school global affairs education. A recent APSIA report described the neglect of global affairs in secondary and university education as a national catastrophe. The US is the global hegemon and most American jobs, regardless of the field, therefore have a global ramification or at least a global component. If students leave American secondary schools and universities unprepared and ignorant on the subject of global affairs this could have dire consequences for the nation within a decade when the new generation takes over. We intend to rectify this problem through the following activities: Work with teachers on curricula to see where global elements can be inserted Prepare print materials and videos--making them available to teachers from the MAIA webpage and downloadable to ipods. Develop criteria to guide schools in how to best incorporate a global affairs education. A ceremony hosted by UM to celebrate the schools which have successfully “adopted the world.” IGlobe will fundraise for scholarships and fellowships for students from the Third World to come to MAIA. MAIA for Maya This organization will provide service to medical missions which make regular trips to the mountains of Guatemala in order to bring medical care to the indigenous Mayans, who often live in abject poverty. Students will fundraise, develop educational materials to be distributed to the Mayans, and publicize the medical missions to the South Florida community and beyond. Religion and World Affairs As Religion and World Affairs is an under-discussed topic in the field of International Relations, we are interested in fundraising for conferences, seminars, and educational materials about this topic. We have begun to work on this already by producing a TV program about religious conflict along with students from the School of Communication. The World at Risk MAIA is also co-sponsoring, along with the UM School of Communication, a lecture series entitled The World at Risk. We will be bringing prominent speakers such as Kofi Annan to address the Miami community about how to mitigate current threats to global security such as nuclear war, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and epidemics.