Millennium Pearl Initiative

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Millennium Pearl Initiative
MPI

• A Uniquely Profound
• Urban Intergenerational Initiative
• for United States
• Elders At-Risk Teens

• 2006 M.P.I. Maxine Nodel

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What is M.P.I.?

• A humanistic exchange project
• designed to improve the lives
• of elders and students via
• Social Interaction
• Storytelling
• Writing
• Drama
• Art

• 2006 M.P.I. Maxine Nodel

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Why Do We Need M.P.I.?

• Improves the lives of elders
• Improves the lives of students
• Eradicates social stereotypes
• Gives two peripheral, yet opposite social
  groups common purpose
• Improves community relations
• Provides hope for the future

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The M.P.I. Paradigm
Them
All Aspects of the Shared Universal Human Conditi
on
Elders Students
Them

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Same Issue Different Era
Childhood Family Friendships School
Life Friendships Dating Sex Work Politics
The Arts Community Values Religion Struggles
Victories Regrets Secrets

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When can M.P.I. be Used in School?

• In virtually any grade
• During lessons on stereotypes
• In conjunction with United States history courses
  or global history courses focusing on world
  cultures
• When students have fractured families

• 2006 M.P.I. Maxine Nodel