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=  Welcome to NAIS Global Challenge 20/20 =

St Paul Academy and Summit School in St Paul, Minnesota and Bluebells School International in New Delhi, India
Our Global Challenge 20/20 project represents the culmination of two months of collaboration between Bluebells School International and Saint Paul Academy and Summit School. BSI is located in India, a developing country, and SPA is located in the United States, a developed country. As independent schools, both BSI and SPA advocate dedication, individualism, and integrity within the classroom. Together we undertook the issue of global poverty and used our disparate experiences, impressions, and research to present a solution for its alleviation. Our project thus represents a union between the developed and developing world as we collectively explored an issue relevant to both the developed and developing world. We believe this partnership is representative of the global partnership that will be necessary to rectify the world’s injustices during the new millennium.
 * Imagine a World Without Poverty **

We began our project with a microscopic assessment of poverty in our local areas and gradually we expanded our perspective into a global outlook. Although poverty remains a more critical issue in India, issues of relative poverty and the associated social and political stigmas are prevalent and in need of resolution in both India and the United States. We deconstructed poverty by examining the various causes, effects, corollaries, and proposed solutions through a comprehensive study of government, NGOs, microfinance, environmental degradation, health, and education. The United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals provided the basis for our assessment, and we revised the MDGs into a form compatible with the conclusions we drew from our research. Although India and the United States are divided by culture, bureaucratic systems, economic relationships, and different degrees of poverty, our collaboration demonstrates that an integrated assault on poverty is the only vehicle to creating a more prosperous and equitable world in the future.