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On February 22, as part of the Embassy Speaker’s Bureau Program, Staff Assistant Andrew MacDonald launched a series of speeches to be given by Embassy officers at schools throughout Poland as a follow-up to an anti-corruption curriculum development project funded by a grant from the State Department. During the next month, Embassy representatives will speak at gymnasiums and high-schools who participated in this project titled “Anti-corruption Curriculum Development: Young People against Corruption” organized through the Center for Citizenship Education. Since the project is finishing this school year, the Center requested that Embassy officers speak to groups of students involved in this program. The project had an overall objective of introducing teaching about corruption, anti-corruption public policy, and institutional procedures into Polish schools. MacDonald spoke about anti-corruption initiatives, asked the students to talk about the development of their local anti-corruption projects, and answered general questions about corruption in the U.S at secondary schools in Katowice and Zory.
Embassy Warsaw’s Speakers Bureau provides a venue for sharing information on US society and values with an audience that would not otherwise have direct contact with US officials. Hopefully, this anti-corruption speaking program will help initiate further discussion and thought to continuing the students’ local-level anti-corruption projects.
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