I Have a Dream

Answers to Kidlink's four questions tell us that you may want improvements in areas like ecology, peace and equality, hunger and poverty, safety, respect and love. I Have a Dream has been made to help you and your friends do something now about your dreams of the future and a better world. The way you want it!

This multi-lingual program is for individual children through the age of 15, and school classes through the secondary school level. Together, we will work through these six steps, or modules:

Step 1: Develop a dream
Individual kids and teams of students examine their personal dreams. You select one that might become the basis for a project developed and run by a global team of young collaborators.
Step 2: Select a dream
Teams promote their own dreams to others, and evaluate dreams from potential partners who might have similar dreams or dreams that might extend their own project definition. You decide which dream project to participate in.
Step 3: Organize dream projects
Teams organize their dream projects, and create a plan of action to make them a reality.
Step 4: Your dream project starts
Teams implement the dream project they have designed. They maintain, assess and revise their project activities to ensure success during this implementation phase.
Step 5: Evaluation
What have our dream project achieved so far? What can we do to make our project more exciting/successful?
Step 6: Finance your dream
Writing applications for financial support to take the project further.

Example: A hypothetical "dream project"

As a participant, you may get practical experiences and skills that may be important for your future, like:

the art of planning, designing and implementing an Internet based project.
promotion/marketing of project ideas to potential partners (using the web and other net tools).
negotiations for partnership, including making decisions (ranking methods, shortlisting, evaluation, making partnership agreements).
fundraising.
international cooperation/project organization, including recruiting of "the best person for the job."
use of productivity software to enhance planning, negotiations, cooperation, fundraising, follow-up, and more.
assess outcomes of your project compared with objectives.

Furthermore, I have a dream may prepare you for the possibility of starting your own business. A business that might be supported by your interpersonal network of friends around the world! Now, what do you think about that?