what you can do. like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. it is man-made and it can be...
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What
YOU can do
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is
man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela
Choose a
Global Issue
to focus on
Then start your Campaign in School…
IDEAS…?Hold a quiz show assembly on world poverty: Hold a quiz show assembly on world poverty:
make it pupils versus teachersmake it pupils versus teachers
Film it for fun and don’t forget a booby prize!Film it for fun and don’t forget a booby prize!
Perform a drama about deaths from preventable diseases…
IDEAS…? CONTINUED
Act
out
a
‘race againstpoverty’
...educate everyone about how Fairtrade can reduce poverty!
Other school based actions… Run a Fairtrade cafe, serving
yummy hot chocolate and banana cake at lunch time and
…
Make your own slum!These slum dwellings were made by young people to show how 1 in 6 people in the world live…
Write a Write a poempoem or or songsong about about global poverty global poverty
Don’t perform a song if you can’t sing though. …..
……There’s enough of that on…
Do some
IDEAS…? street theatre in town
Get your message out to more people by …..creating a section in your school newsletter or website
Welcome to Blah Blah Arts and Community College
“ We hope that this will raise awareness about how 1 in 5 of
the world’s population live. I’m really going to miss chocolate though!”
Anna Martin, spokesperson for
the group
Undersize us!
A group of Sixth Formers have shown their
solidarity with the world’s poorest
people by vowing to live on 80p a day for a week!
Why not send your article to the local paper as well?
If you want something a bit If you want something a bit
more more MovingMoving … …
Get hold of 19 pairs of baby shoes and display them in the town centre to show how
many children die every minute from preventable diseases like malaria and diarrhoea
Join the Millennium Development Goals Facebook group…
… And make your own for your area or school.
To make sure your message gets across to bjkjkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkthe people in power…
Think about what other people in your community are doing
Or what they might want to do ….
Make a list of all the organisations in your community …
… and then map them to what you want to do
Contact your local church
To see whether they would like to work with you
Write to your local MP---
Tell them what you think.
AND
Dear Hilary Benn MP,
We are not happy with the UK’s progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. It is disgraceful that all over the world millions of children our age do not have the opportunity to go to school, and that they may be suffering from malnutrition or risk death from easily treated illnesses such as diarrhoea.
We would like to make our voices heard and tell the government to keep their promises to the developing world and keep pushing towards the MDG’s before it is too late.
Yours sincerely, all at Allerton High School.
‘‘We are the first
We are the first generation that
generation that can eradicate
can eradicate poverty and we
poverty and we refuse to miss
refuse to miss this opportunity’
this opportunity’Eveline Herfkins,
Eveline Herfkins,
Millennium Millennium Campaign
Campaign co-ordinator
co-ordinator
““Ending Ending
poverty is poverty is
not an act not an act
of charity. of charity.
It is an act It is an act
of justice.”of justice.”
Nelson Nelson
MandelaMandela
What will YOU Do?