Spanish for Heritage Learners Tackle Global Challenges with PSAs

For the past several weeks, the Spanish for Heritage Learners class has been researching and creating campaigns to spread awareness about various global challenges. These include hunger, illness, natural disasters, child abuse, and poverty. As part of their campaigns, they created public service announcements about their topics in Spanish with English subtitles. The goal of the project is to share information and give people ways to help alleviate the problems.

The project included multiple steps. For the group portion, students came up with a slogan, created an informational poster (to be exhibited in Cohen), made an informational page on a social media platform, and recorded a public service announcement for the WSAS broadcast. For the individual portion, students wrote a blog entry expressing their position on the issues related to their global challenge. Finally, they were required to research a company or organization that works to alleviate some of the effects of the global challenge they chose and create an informational brochure about what the company or organization does. 

Click the links below to watch the videos that the students created. 

Worldwide Poverty: Provides statistics related to poverty in the United States and worldwide. The campaign intends to raise awareness about the problem. – Ashley Canelon, Diego Lombana, Luccas Méndez, and Olivia Orlandi

Child Abuse: The presenters provide information about the types of child abuse that exist and the consequences on victims. Their message is that if “You see something, say something,” so that the child can be helped. – Camila Bartra, Tessa Batlle, and Karina Jimenez

World Hunger: Provides statistics related to the causes of hunger, its impact on people’s health, and its impact worldwide. The PSA provides a few ideas to help alleviate this problem. – Jorge Carbayo, Max Sandel, and Lucciano Simons

Life-Threatening Illnesses: Provides statistics about COVID-19, Cancer, and STIs, as well as ways of preventing infection. – Zarina Abdulakhatova, Lian Azqueta, and Daniel Meza

Natural Disasters: Provides information about the natural, human, and economic impact of natural disasters. The presenters share a few ideas for assisting in alleviating some of the related consequences. – Máximo Banegas, Adrián Fente, and Daniel Tendler