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A Mahurangi College student has been chosen as one of 22 New Zealand delegates on a month-long UN Youth Global Development Tour looking at sustainable development goals.
Julia Caulfield, 17, of Sandspit, will go to New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Copenhagen and Geneva, visiting organisations along the way including the UN headquarters, the NZ Permanent Mission to the UN, the World Bank, the World Food Programme and the London Waste and Recycling Board.
She will also be a NZ representative at the Columbia University Model United Nations Conference and Exposition in New York.
Julia has long been passionate about local, national and international politics. “I’ve been involved in UN Youth for a long time, so when the opportunity came up it was a ‘no brainer’ to apply,” she says.
Julia needs to raise several thousand dollars towards the cost of the tour, so has set up a fundraising page at givealittle.co.nz/cause/getjuliatotheun
Meanwhile, Julia is applying for early university entrance to study Law and Global Studies at Auckland University next year, majoring in Global Politics and Human Rights.
