By Jenny Howe
On Saturday 7 August, the annual Lake MUNA took place at Westlake Boys High School. This event was entirely volunteer run by our Westlake HSAs (including Westlake Girls students Grace Chen and myself) and additional tertiary students. Sixty students from both Westlake Girls High School and Westlake Boys High School attended the event.
In the morning there was a lively workshop about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, where students discussed the importance of each goal. We then moved into separate committees which were created based on different topics, such as foreign intervention in humanitarian crises, climate change, and corruption. Each student was assigned a country and represented these countries in their committees to attempt to solve global issues according to their country’s views and beliefs.
This conference was extremely beneficial for students to develop their research skills, as well as becoming more confident in their public speaking. We received lots of positive feedback after the event, including Shivani Arivuchelvan who said; “It was truly a great day and I learnt a lot about both our world and how the UN work”.