Trinity Grade 5

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 My intended audience is donors.

Good afternoon everyone, my name is Twarita Verma and before I begin I want to thank everyone for coming to listen to me speak. It is such an honor to be here before you. 

I’m passionate about a lot of things but when the world went virtual I couldn't do much, so that's when I turned to my best friend - Books. Books are one of my favorite things not only because of the fact that they are beneficial towards my education and learning but also because they show a glimpse of the “real world”. They also showcase raw emotions of the characters such as sadness, joyfulness, fear, and love, which is my personal favorite. They basically show us every little detail of life. Now imagine what it would be like if your child didn’t have access to books, imagine you didn’t have that privilege, to grow without having a way to sustain your knowledge. Imagine what that’s like, don’t you want to help families and communities to have the opportunity to live a potentially normal life? Which is why today I will be talking about the NCFL. 

The National Center for Families Learning is a non-profit charity and organization that works to provide literacy and learning programs for families and communities. This organization helps empower entire families with low-income and low-literacy rates to improve their reading and writing skills together. NCFL is based in the United States and has worked with 150 communities in 39 different states, the NCFL has reached over 4.5 million parents and kids across the country. But why do children and adults need to read? Why is it important?

Reading is essential and serves as a fundamental building block for learning in any academic topic, whether it is language arts or math. The necessity to read items like traffic signs or medications in everyday life demonstrates that reading is a crucial life skill. Reading enhances memory and brain strength. It also strengthens and creates new brain connections and helps with concentration. Reading is a focused activity that, when done frequently, helps everyone acquire the capacity to sit still and quietly for longer and longer periods of time.

Now the real question here is why should you donate to them, what does it do to you? Well for starters donating can help so many people even if it's just a dollar you're still part-taking in the help of these people. People who can not afford to get books. It's your moral, social, and ethical views to help these people, people who are not as fortunate as you. People who don't have anything, for your thought and peace of mind, for the moral part of society we hope you donate even if it's a dollar. Again I thank you for listening to me speak and I hope that you will help this non-profit organization. Thank you. 

Written By: Twarita Verma

 Welcome Everyone to BBC NEWS. Today we are focusing on BRICS: THE RISE OF A NEW GLOBAL SUPERPOWER? My name is Twarita Verma, and I will be your host tonight.

Who would have thought 2 decades ago that BRIC, now known as BRICS,  could potentially have real prospects, which could now change the political equilibrium of world politics?? I certainly wouldn’t have, because well, to be fair I wasn’t alive 2 decades ago so it would have been physically impossible for me to have thought that.

2001 chief economist of Goldman Sachs supposedly coined the BRICS nation. BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and it is a reference to the world's emerging economies. Back in the day it was known as BRIC as South Africa only formally joined the group in 2010.  BRIC’s official first summit took place in 2009. Then the discussion seemed largely abstract. However, not until 2014 did BRICS begin taking serious steps towards greater integration, when the nascent alliance, now including South Africa, launched the New Development Bank with seed money of $50 billion.

These crucial decisions meant that the group was now ready to take its first practical steps in challenging the dominance of the West over international monetary institutions, namely the World Bank and the IMF.

The geopolitical global conflict, thus shifts, resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war, however proved to be the driving force behind the massive expansion underway at BRICS especially as financially powerful countries begin to show interest in the initiative, those said countries include Argentina, UAE, Mexico, Algeria, and particularly Saudi Arabia.

Recent financial reports suggest that BRICS are suddenly the world's largest Gross Domestic Product or the GDP bloc in the world, as it currently contributes 31.5% to the global GDP ahead of the G7 which contributes 30.7%. Who would have expected that the BRICS nation could rise as the potential rival of the G7 countries?

One of the greatest opportunities and challenges facing BRICS now is its ability to expand its membership base while maintaining its current growth. The issue of helping new members maintain economic and political independence is particularly vital.

As BRICS strengthens it will have the potential to help poorer countries without pushing a self-serving political agenda or indirectly manipulating and controlling local economies.

As inflation is hitting many Western countries resulting in lower economic growth and causing social unrest, nations in the global are using this as an opportunity to develop their own economic alternatives. This means that groups like BRICS will seize being exclusively economic institutions. The struggle is now very political.

However, there are dollar alternative strategies. An example would be the trade agreement between Brazil & China. On March 30th Brazil and China announced a trade agreement that would allow them to use two countries' national currencies the yuan and the reais, respectively. This step shall prove consequential for it will encourage other South American countries to follow suit. But that move was neither the first nor will it be the last of its kind. Please tune into our channel for more interesting news that is similar to this. Thank you!

Written By: Twarita Verma