Model UN

Junior year was my first year being a part of Model UN. I was very interested in what the club held but due to personal reasons, I was never able to participate until 11th grade. Going into a new club junior year of high school was scary in the sense that everyone was already confident in what the club included. I was very unsure of where my place was and how I could show my perspective on the Model UN issues. After a lot of hard work and dedication, I was chosen to attend the Harvard Model UN conference. I represented the country Tanzania and my organization was the ILO (International Labor Organization) and our topic was women in the workforce. I learned so much about the country of Tanzania itself as well as their country's perspective on women in the workforce and labor as a whole. While in my conferences, I learned about different countries' perspectives on the ILO and got to work with different countries on a new program called "Swift Block" to help women both receive jobs from the ILO but secure those jobs if they have personal needs such as maternity leave or children they also need to care for. By representing Tanzania I was able to work with countries that could be viewed as "enemy countries", but we were able to work out those issues to improve the lives of women in our countries and how the ILO can have a new perspective on labor for all countries.