Great leaders make great speeches and great speeches can change the world. This summer, students studying Get Ahead Speech Writing learnt about the language and structure of speeches. They practised writing their own small speeches. However, more, much more was to follow. Next step on our intensive course was to make a speech that would make a difference in the real world.
The students learnt about the situation of refugees escaping from the war in Syria. When they had watched a clip from a documentary about the terrible situation that child refugees are facing, our students wanted to do something.
Working together in an international team, Maria (Mexico), Maria (UK), Weronika (Poland), Marta (Ukraine) and Zvonimir (Croatia) wrote a speech to inform the other students at More Than English about the situation and request them to donate money so that a child refugee can benefit from the educational services that More Than English can provide.
We are extremely proud to announce that the group’s speech was very successful in persuading the students to donate very generously £260 to help another student in a much worse situation.
Congratulations to the speech making group on writing and delivering a very powerful speech. Congratulations to all the students for being so generous.
In the coming weeks and months on this blog we will keep you up to date with how the money will be used to help a child refugee. For now, please watch the speech, and please contact us if you would like to help a child refugee too.
This blog is written by David Meddows, Course Leader on the Leadership programme and owner of More Than English
