Videos, photographs, cartoons, animations, current affairs, infographics … this website is maintained with a wide range of material covering a range of global development themes and issues. Here are some suggested ways of using the website to build development education into your lessons plans: Take a look around – use
Source: ECO-UNESCO 2018 Fancy organising a workshop? Many NGOs have members of staff who do outreach and education visits to schools as part of their education programmes (when you contact them make sure to highlight the fact that you are looking for an educational workshop rather than a fundraising one!
I was out walking the dog this morning. It was a particularly hot morning as the rains haven’t quite taken force. It was lovely and quiet with very few people around. Kampala is always quiet on weekend mornings. Snoopy is 15 years old, so for an Mzee (old man) of
Development Issues – a course for Transition Year (2015 Edition) was edited and updated by Aileen Tennant and Joseph Clowry (St. Mary’s Academy, Carlow) with Tony Daly and Dan Bartley (developmenteducation.ie). Date: 30th November 2015 ISBN: 978-0-9930234-4-6 This course was updated through the support of the Worldwise Global Schools programme.
Ellen Brennan’s blog was a runner up in the 2015 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie Development Issues blog series. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. When I was 5 years old I made my first trip abroad to Nogales, Mexico, only one hour from my home in the US. Up until that point I had
Ciara Molloy‘s blog was a runner up in the 2015 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie Development Issues blog series. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… For a middle-class, native Irish college student born in the 1990s, development is a relative concept. Having not been immersed in a developing country or experienced the conditions of life
In supporting the rights of widows and orphans in Zambia, JWOP have carried out a variety of projects, the most successful being the ‘Bus Campaign’ where information regarding widow and orphan rights is presented and disseminated amongst the general public travelling on buses/coaches throughout Zambia. The campaign has focused on popularising and promoting legislation called the Intestate Succession Act, which was developed to support families in the event of the death of a spouse; it encourages individuals to write a Will; and carries out community workshops with church leaders to encourage them to promote the rights of widows and orphans during their church services and outreach activities
My name is Lizzy and I am 29 years old. I am married with four children. At 08:00hrs I walk to my stone-selling site along Mungwi Road and commence work. Poverty led me into the ‘Stone Crashing business’.
International Women’s Day – a time to reflect on progress made, a call for change and a celebration of acts by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries, communities and lives. Or is it? What exactly does International Women’s Day (IWD) mean to
In these days of ‘crisis’ summit meetings, ‘floods’ of migrants ‘swarming’ at borders, ‘security’ forces ‘overwhelmed’ and Europe facing an ‘unprecedented’ crisis, words take on added significance as we search for a language that matches our feelings. How we describe the situation, how we construct its meaning and contours, how
As ever, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the MDG Goal to increase the population with access to safe drinking water was met in 2012. But, the bad news is that the focus on ‘safe’ water hides a major issue. People (here read predominantly women)
Over 3000+ students and staff from 40 Edmund Rice Education schools around Australia and New Zealand took voluntary lunchtime detention to stand in solidarity with children currently in immigration detention in Australia. Students: Experienced having their voices silenced, hands tied, and sent a message to those in detention that they
It is International Day of the Girl Child, and with 1.1 billion girls in the world it most certainly is an important topic. The theme this year is ‘Girls progress = goals progress: a global girls data movement’ based on the idea that ‘what gets counted gets done.’ In a
80:20 Development in an Unequal World (and its accompanying CD-ROM introduces and explores some of the major development, human rights and (in)justice issues around the world. It includes some of the major arguments, analysis and viewpoints from around the world aimed at stimulating thought, debate and analysis of the issues
Big Ideas in this Resource first hand account of Africa’s struggle for freedom and justice insight into culture and tradition of the Xhosa in South Africa understanding of race and inequality See also the abridged version of the Long Walk to Freedom for primary by Chris van Wyk and illustrated
The report argues that: ‘Over the past 20 years many people around the world have experienced dramatic improvements in key aspects of their lives. Overall, they are healthier, more educated and wealthier and have more power to appoint and hold their leaders accountable than ever before’, nonetheless ‘nearly 7 billion
This resource has a number of key objectives – to raise awareness of desertification; to show how it impacts on the MDGs; to provide teachers a solid background on desertification; to encourage teachers and students to act locally to combat desertification and to demonstrate that desertification can be tackled. The
‘By directly empowering poor people, particularly women, Microcredit has become one of the key driving mechanisms towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals’ The focus of this resource is on the role of microcredit and Credit Unions in supporting the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty. The resource
The resource Challenge to Change is a collection of action projects by students and teachers from Presentation Sisters primary and post primary schools in Ireland. The projects explored issues on: water, MDGs, Fairtrade, injustice, inequality, human rights, sustainable development, cultural diversity, torture, slavery, child poverty. The resource outlines the aims
At 42 pages in length, this youth resource is activity driven from beginning to end – with 20 activities in total that aim to stimulate and challenge young people to reflect on the inherited global inequalities that define the world around them through various 30 to 60 minute sessions. Each
From 31st October 2011, it is claimed that seven billion people are inhabiting the earth. The report uniquely looks at the trends—the dynamics—that are defining our world and shows what people in vastly different countries and circumstances are doing in their own communities to make the most of their world.
With less than five years from the target date for achieving the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the progress to date has been uneven. This UN report shows how some countries have made great strides towards reaching their targets, including some of the poorest, most notably, sub-Saharan Africa. This report
Nadine Gordimer is a leading South African writer who became a symbol of free speech for her work documenting the brutal consequences of apartheid in the lives of ordinary people, sometimes defying censorship to do so. In the 60’s and 70’s she was often at the forefront of protests and
Born in 1959 in Minna, central Nigeria, Ben Okri’s style of writing is often compared to the magic realism of Latin American novelists. Okri is a member of an innovative group of young Nigerian writers, who have learned from older authors such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Flora Nwapa
One of the most influential writers of the last century, Doris Lessing has won almost every literary prize going. Born in Persia (now Iran) in 1919 to British parents, she moved with her family when she was five to a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She left school at
Born in England in 1969, Alexandra Fuller moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her family when she was two years old. After the civil war in Zimbabwe in 1981 the family moved to Malawi, then to Zambia. Fuller followed up her acclaimed memoir Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Adam Hochschild was born in New York in 1942. As a college student he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. He later worked as a journalist and editor and is the author of six books,
John, Daniel and Panther were part of the 25,000 “Lost Boys” who fled war-torn Sudan, walking for five years to get to a Kenyan refugee camp after the outbreak of the second Sudanese civil war in 1983. Travelling barefoot across the sub-Saharan desert, the three had formed surrogate families and
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