Congratulations to the school's UNICEF CAS for organizing a lovely charity concert & performance this weekend -- and to all the host families and College friends who followed the invitation. The group raised over €450, which will directly flow into a UNICEF project. Well done! #studentinitiative #charity #UNICEF #uwc

Earlier this week, students My from Vietnam and Celina from Denmark presented some shocking facts about the fast fashion industry to the College Community and organized a screening of the 2015 documentary 'The true cost': "There are 40 million people working under horrible conditions for less than USD 3, most of them from developing countries. It's time that we reduce the number of clothes we buy and think about where we buy them", My says. Luckily, students at our College have a school internal thrift boutique to get clothes from - for free. #fastfashion #environment #fairtrade #lessismore #impact #awareness #uwc

We are still in awe about Shelby Davis' latest announcement and the launch of the 'Dare to Dream' scholarship program, supporting #UWC with at least 100 million USD! This gift is one of the most significant gifts ever made to a secondary educational institution. Dr. Christof Bosch, chair of our board, says: “We are inspired by Shelby Davis’ generosity and by his vision that each year UWC National Committees will identify 100 young people to attend the different schools and colleges, young people who otherwise never even dare to dream of an international education. We are excited that already we know that our College’s first four ‘Dare to Dream’ students will come from Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador and Uruguay. It is especially important to us that these students will be selected from circumstances where otherwise they could not have dared to dream of this opportunity. As the UWC Robert Bosch College Community we pledge to create a welcome for these students, not only for the nationalities and backgrounds that they represent but also mindful that students from less fortunate financial circumstances often do not arrive with perfect academic and language preparation.” #ShelbyDavis #Dare2Dream

BREAKING NEWS from our friends at UWC: Shelby Davis just pledged over 100 million USD (!!) towards UWC scholarship funding! Starting this year, the Davis-UWC “Dare to Dream” programme will provide funding for 100 additional scholarships per year for national committee-selected students to attend UWC. THANK YOU, Shelby, for this tremendous gift and for supporting UWC’s mission to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. We are so grateful! To read more, visit http://www.uwc.org/daretodream #Dare2Dream #ShelbyDavis #UWC #donation #education #philanthropy

Alumnus Donovan Cassidy-Nolan (UWCRBC 2015-17) from Canada was a student of the second generation at UWC Robert Bosch College. Since fall 2017, he has been studying at Princeton University in the U.S., where he was recently featured as part of an integrated science intro course. Reason enough to ask him about his transition from Freiburg to the U.S.: "Funnily enough, my first week at Princeton was similar to how I began my second year at RBC – an intensive backpacking retreat into the woods, without phones or even watches. It rained and thundered, but the deluxe outhouse facilities on the Pennsylvania section of the Appalachian Trail more than made up for the wet weather! Socially and academically, I felt ready to get the most out of Princeton. RBC had prepared me well to face the many challenges here. An unexpected benefit of UWC was that it almost cured my FOMO – the Fear Of Missing Out!" (nice to see that Donovan has also not lost his sense of humour:) #uwc #alumni #journeys #transition Read Donovan's full reflection on https://www.uwcrobertboschcollege.de/en/news/on-transitions-from-rbc-to-princeton/

Yohan from Kenya was one of the workshop leaders for last week’s Inequality Special Focus Day. Inspired by a 2014 blog post written by British journalist and writer Reni Eddo-Lodge called ‘Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race’ (published as a book after it went viral), Yohan decided to offer a workshop with the same title: “I was inspired, as much of what she said resonated with me when I think of the topic of race. I, too, have experienced this constant denial and defensiveness when I would say things like ‘what you said was racist’, or ‘that action or comment made perpetuates racial inequalities’. Like her, I often felt like I was walking a fine line trying to ensure that peoples’ feelings don’t get hurt (as a conversation about race makes people uncomfortable). These were conversations that have made me emotionally exhausted and I had to do something about it. Eddo-Lodge decided to write this blog post, I, on the other hand, decided to give this workshop. Leading up to my workshop, I was in all honesty prepared for anything, be it a vicious backlash, genuine curiosity, or total silence. I brought up the ideas she discussed in her post and book and engaged in a discussion about what role do people have in engaging in such conversations, and I was moved to hear people share their unfiltered experiences, opinions, and questions. But it was all a stark reminder that there still is a very long way to go before the entrenched structural racism is removed from society, and in order to do so we must all interrogate ourselves and our role in the fight against these oppressive structures that exist in our world today.” #uwc #uwcrobertboschcollege #inequality #studentvoices

Looking back and moving forward: UWC has put together this inspiring video summarizing highlights from across the movement in 2017. As this first month into the new year has almost come to an end, we would like to invite you to travel through the last year with us. At UWC Robert Bosch College, we're looking forward to contributing to the movement's impact in 2018 and onwards. #UWC #UWCLove

Hello world! Our MUN-CAS is currently chatting with delegates from 9 other #uwc schools worldwide, virtually simulating several UN committees, such as UNICEF, WHO or disarmement. This is learning and sharing on a new level! #MUN #uwcrobertboschcollege #virtual

Seems like yesterday that alum John Michael Koffi (RBC 2015-17) performed his own songs for us in the school's auditorium. Tonight, he will perform a song he wrote with a friend while living in a refugee camp in Swaziland at the event AMS Refugee Relief presents: Sounds for Syria, hosted by the University of British Columbia. We're also very excited to see his memoir coming out soon, a tale of his experiences as a refugee in Malawi and Swaziland. Go John, we miss you! #uwc #alumni #justtime

On Mondays's Inequality Special Focus Day, students had the opportunity to raise awareness for topics they've encountered in their home country. From our Nepali student Juni, we learned about the Chhaupadi system -- and what a threat this poses to women: ------------------- "Today I am here to talk about one of the traditions which we practise in Nepal and which I think is the cruellest thing and definitely relevant to our Special Inequality Day too. I want to talk about the Chhaupadi system in Nepal which, if translated, means exiling women. In this system, women basically get exiled from their home every month. Why? Because of their period. That means that when girls are on their period the first 7 days, they are forced to stay outside of their house. Some live-in animal sheds, some live in the basement. As a Hindu, it’s a very big sin to stay in house when you are on your period. You are not supposed to talk with your male family members. It is believed that everything we touch will become impure. If we touch a plant, it dies, if we feed cows, they will stop giving us milk. When you live in the sheds for days, you are basically not part of this world, nobody cares about you. The place is usually dirty because it is for animals. And there has been lot of health problems among women. Despite our government publishing laws to stop this practice, it seems like it has still not stopped." #inequality #truth #studentvoices

Last week, our Rektor Laurence Nodder travelled to UWC Atlantic College, our sister school in Wales, for the ‘Rightfully Own Our True Stories (ROOTS) conference. As a key note speaker, he spoke about the history of Apartheid in South Africa and shared with the students experiences of his work especially through education in the struggle against Apartheid and its profound and ongoing effects: “As a white person in South Africa, my background, my skin colour meant that I was privileged. I took life decisions that placed me alongside people who were deeply discriminated against and persecuted, so I have witnessed discrimination, persecution, inhumanity at close quarters, but normally with my whiteness providing a degree of protection.” Learn more about the conference, recorded here by AC student Laura Logan: “Some people have asked, why ROOTS? Why Africa and the Caribbean? The answer is that no region should be relegated to a single-story narrative; every story deserves to be heard. Our hope is that the ROOTS conference will mark the start of a beautiful new trend within the UWC community.” #uwc #roots #history