Global Friendship

Thursday, 13th August 2026 at 7:50am

GBHS student Thomas Brown (Yr 11) has recently returned from Trento, Italy, where he attended a 23-day summer camp with CISV International - a non-political and non-religious global peace and leadership organisation.

Thomas was part of a delegation of four 15-year-olds from NZ who joined small groups from Brazil, Philippines, Egypt, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Italy.

Thomas’s experience included a 3-night stay with a local Italian host family, before attending the camp, where he was involved in planning, leading and evaluating structured peace-education activities based on CISVs four educational pillars: human rights, diversity, sustainability and conflict resolution.