Kawartha World Issues Centre

The Kawartha World Issues Centre (KWIC) Schools Program is a group of volunteers who create global issues based workshops to be presented in local area classrooms. Relatively little has been written about this program and nothing was found in the KWIC files regarding how to contact interested teachers, how [sic] recruit volunteers, or even how to create workshops and what types of material should be included.

The KWIC Speakers Bureau is a database of local speakers who have volunteered to share their personal knowledge and experiences with the community - as public speakers, discussion leaders, lecturers, and in many other capacities. This year KWIC's focus is on environmental issues, and the expertise that members of the Peterborough community possess in this area is reflected in the wide variety of issues and subject matters that can be found in the Speakers Bureau. This project includes a User's Manual of how to use the database, an article for KWIC's fall newsletter describing the project and it's benefits to the community, as well as a personal reflection, which focuses on the development and implementation of the project.

KWIC's Guide to Global Education Activities in the Peterborough Area: Edition 2000 was the central part of a student placement project of the Trent Centre for Community Based Education and the Kawartha World Issues Centre (KWIC). This booklet includes a listing of organizations which are involved with global education activities in Peterborough and short descriptions of their initiatives.