This week students and staff at Seneca celebrate "International Development Week". An interesting program has been organized by a small team of current and former students and their theme this year is "Empowering Voices". I attended a session on languages and how many of them around the world are at risk of extinction. With them will go complete cultures and important knowledge. Under the guidance of one of the Seneca professors (who originates from Denmark) we listened to a language expert from Ghana (who also speaks Spanish!) and an expert from one of the First Nations in Canada where the many indigenous languages were close to wiped out because of the "residential schools".
Good attendance at this session. The organizing team had events like this every day at each of the campuses of Seneca. A wonderful extra-curricular learning opportunity for everybody.
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