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Day Five: Making a difference
Morning session: Local to global and the Make Poverty History campaign
Activities Key focus: We can make a difference and help to make the world a better, fairer place. Consider ways in which pupils can have their say about issues raised earlier in the week. Background information for teachers Now the G8 Summit in Edinburgh and the UN World Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in New York are over, the MPH campaign is focussing on a third and final key event this year: the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference to be held in Hong Kong from 13-18 December 2005. This ministerial conference is the highest authority in the World Trade Organisation structure and takes decisions on all matters under multilateral trade agreements. This is seen as the key event for campaigning about trade justice issues. You might like to get your class or school involved in White Band Day 3 (10 December) which links with this important event to raise awareness about Fair Trade. For further information see: > the
schools section of the Make Poverty History website (external link)
Perhaps the juxtaposition of events – the tsunami, the response and solidarity of the world’s people, and the G7 and G8 Summits – will see the beginning of a new relationship between North and South, in which the richer countries of the North work more in partnership with the poorer countries of the South to change the systems and structures that continue to keep them poor. Northern countries help with events like the tsunami, but if the unfair trading systems and developing country debt are dealt with, the level of need when natural disasters occur again will be dramatically reduced. Adapted from Global Express: Tsunami – A world changing event published by Manchester Development Education Project and Oxfam, January 2005
Activity 1: Responding to disasters You will need Aim: To enable pupils to think about the
difference between providing charity and tackling unfair structures that
cause poverty and disaster. Before handing out the worksheet, work with the pupils to get their ideas about what can be done about disasters. You might find Oxfam’s Cool Planet website useful for this. Then give the pupils copies of the worksheet. Ask them to add ideas to the web and in groups to discuss and answer the questions relating to it. People may have given money because they felt sorry for the victims of the tsunami; perhaps they empathised with them. If pupils feel more should be done than just giving money, discuss who they think should try to change unfair systems – people (e.g. by buying fair trade goods) or governments (e.g. by changing trade rules). Do they think governments should spend more on aid, given the amounts raised by people? On the other hand, government money could be used for other things – perhaps pupils think they should not raise their aid budgets? Adapted from Global Express: Tsunami – A world changing event published by Manchester Development Education Project and Oxfam, January 2005
Activity 2: From the local to the global (20–30 min) Aim: To help pupils understand that so-called ‘global’ issues are closely linked to their own everyday experiences. You will need Discuss the two lists below with pupils, explaining the terms where necessary. Ask the pupils to link the global and classroom issues (they may find more than one link between the issues).
Activity 3: Make Poverty History (30 min–1 hour) You will need Aims: To raise awareness that debt relief, increasing aid, and having fair trade rules can contribute significantly to eradicating poverty. To realise that change is possible. Give pupils the Make Poverty History worksheet and ask them to read through the information. In the discussion afterwards, try to explore why it is difficult to persuade countries to change trade rules, cancel debt and give more aid. Who might suffer from these actions? Do all the pupils agree they are a good idea? Sum up work covered during the week by making a poster or leaflet to inform others about an issue you feel strongly about. If you have covered the material in ‘Day two: poverty and education’ pupils may wish to focus on how aid, trade and debt affect access to a good quality education. Fact sheets with background information for pupils about these issues can be found on Cool Planet for children. Alternatively, if you have covered the material in ‘Day four: fair trade’ pupils can find further information on fair trade on the children’s pages of Cool Planet. For further information see www.makepovertyhistory.org, and www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet.
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