For the third time in succession, students from a city suburban school were the only participants from the whole of India to attend a video conference organised by United Nations.
Over two dozen students and teachers of Lalaji Memorial Omega International School at Kolapakkam, a suburb behind the Chennai Airport, took part in the video conference held on the premises of HTC in Madras Export Processing Zone – Special Economic Zone in Tambaram Sanatorium recently.
This year, the theme of the video conference was “fighting poverty through the Millennium Development Goals.”
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The event was held as part of the 2010 UN Student Leadership Conference on Development and principally organised by UN International School, New York, according to Bhavani Shankar, Senior Principal of the School.
Liz Kingsnorth, the school's UN Project Coordinator, said students took part in the video-conference for the whole of 10 hours, without taking a break. After their presentations at the video conference, the students would be preparing papers on the challenges of poverty, food security, energy, health and climate change that would find part in UN's newsletter, she added.