Raising awareness of children’s lives in developing countries, as explored by St Ciaran’s NS, Hartstown, Dublin fifth class teacher Maeve Gilligan. We took part in the Our World Irish Aid Awards for primary schools. The theme for 2014 was “A Better Future for All the World’s Children”. We learned about
Fancy organising a workshop? Many NGOs have members of staff who do outreach and education visits to schools as part of their education programmes.
Kenya – Country Profile Republic of Kenya – “the cradle of humanity” There are more than 40 ethnic Groups in Kenya, the majority of who are descendants of two major language groups – the Bantu of Western Africa (Kikuyu, Luhya, Kalenjin, Kamba) and the Nilotic from the Nile Valley (Luo).
This blog was written to stimulate discussion at an Irish Development Education Association seminar in Dublin on 4th May 2016. It is based upon my own thinking about what has been achieved over the past three decades, some trends and patterns I see dominating at the moment (not all positive)
Through the use of 4 different activities, 6 photos, role-play and on-line activities (www.trocaire.org/education), students can study Honduras and the importance of working together as part of a community. Also included in the resource are photos of individuals Trócaire works with and the work they do. The resource is closely
This resource comes with a DVD, posters, classroom activities and ideas for action. It gives an introduction to poverty and aid, different forms of aid, Ireland’s role, different perspectives on aid and the role of Trócaire. There are also helpful teachers notes and quizzes throughout, as well as a glossary
Published on Feb 12, 2014 For more on the GROW campaign and to support Africa’s smallholder farmers visit www.one.org/doagric/partners and www.oxfam.org/grow The artists featured in this video include: Baaba Maal (Senegal), 2 Face Idibia (Nigeria), Smarty (Burkina Faso), Lami Phillips (Nigeria), Daara J Family (Senegal), Sound Sultan (Nigeria), Titi Lokei
BANGKOK, Jan 18 (IPS) – Although small, Singapore’s response to aid fellow South-east Asian neighbour Indonesia in the aftermath of the devastating tsunami is being hailed by a regional development expert as a pivotal step in the global race to rid the world of poverty. “Singapore going to Aceh to
This week, Oxfam released their annual wealth check report, Public Good or Private Wealth?, highlighting the concentration of the world’s wealth. As you have probably already seen in mainstream and social media, the report finds that the 26 richest billionaires on the planet own as many assets as the poorest
Quick-fire activities and videos to get you started on teaching the issues, the debates and key ideas around World Food Day, by Toni Pyke
This programme consists of 8 sessions for primary schools using interactive learning techniques to engage participants in the activities. The programme comes with a ‘Tools for Solidarity Activity Pack’ and each topic is supported by a lesson plan and powerpoint. The programme covers: Learning about inequalities Learning about Poverty Natural
2011 saw the publication of two reports on international ‘risk’; one published early in the year by the Risks Report Network of the World Economic Forum (the Global Risks Report 2011) and the second the World Risk Report 2011 from the Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft (Alliance Development Works – a coalition
Photo source: Truly Zambian The story of the weekend goes to Zambia: the once written-off underdog of African football – the Chipolopolo Boys** or Copper Bullet Boys – upset the clear favourites of the Africa Cup of Nations tournament (AFCON) by beating the Ivory Coast in the final in an
Walk for Water works to highlight the crises of unequal access to water and sanitation around the world, it aims to highlight the centrality of water and sanitation to human development, to health, to nutritional status, to education, particularly for girls. International World Water Day is held annually on the
Ten years after The Economist declared that Africa was ‘a basket case’ it was back with another headline: ‘Africa Rising…the hopeful continent’. If Africa is rising can it continue to do so, or will the many problems it still faces render its rising ‘a false dawn’?
It’s early August and the summer break is well and truly underway: schools are closed; politicians take some much needed respite…
Spread over five chapters, the 2011 report integrates previous learning from older HDRs and includes the new statistical measures added to the human development indices: the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, the Gender Inequality Index and the Multidimensional Poverty Index. At 185 pages in length, the report examines social factors not
This resource has been written to assist secondary students in exploring the issue of development from a global perspective. The two main focus points of the resource are Malawi and the Millennium Development Goals (the MDGs). In Chinya, the MDGs are used as tools to explore poverty and development. Malawi,
This training curriculum is divided into five modues: Care work and the economy The care work context Care work and the human rights based approach Redistribution of unpaid care work for gender equality and justice Ideas for action Each module discusses core concepts in depth and issues are thoroughly dealt
Aimed primarily at student teachers (but suitable for use in classrooms, in youth and community education), this four-part study programme offers a series of cross-cultural exercises, inviting learners to: “examine the origins of their own perceptions and cultural logics (their values and assumptions), to develop self-reflexivity, to re-evaluate their own
Despite some positive developments in the portrayal of people living in poverty in developing world contexts, e.g., Dochas Code of Conduct on Images and Messages, the Irish public are often exposed to generalised and even stereotypical information and images on the subject. This resource was developed to support junior cycle
The majority of the world’s 7 billion people live in urban areas. More than one billion of these – or one in three urban residents – live in inadequate housing with no, or only a few basic resources such as access to safe water or sanitation, refuse collection, etc. Generally,
Human development index (see definition below) Zambia is classified as having low human development (23rd of 42 such countries) It is ranked 150 from 169 countries in 2010 (in the bottom 11%) While the HDI increased between 2008 and 2010, Zambia is one of only 3 countries with a lower
Development Education – FAQs for teachers and facilitators is a guide about how to incorporate discussion of global issues such as gender, climate change and poverty into your subject area. Development education aims to encourage young people to reflect on the challenges our world faces and consider solutions to these
This guide explores many of the issues involved in study visits and immersion programmes; it offers practical suggestions and ideas for organising them as well as for reflecting on them.
Toni Pyke explores what eight countries accounted for two thirds of the total number of people facing acute food insecurity in 2018.
In the third part of the series John Dornan and Suzanne Bunniss review faith groups and action over many years on environmental issues such as climate change, sustainability and our collective responsibilities to each other on a shared planet
We have all heard it, time and time again – international aid just doesn’t work. It doesn’t achieve its objectives, it wastes money and it would be better spent here at home. What The Fact? investigates.
COVID-19 Exploring the fault lines of a global pandemic Photo: ‘Coronavirus’ by Daniel Foster via Flickr. License CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A dashboard of tools, resources, ideas and stories. Good finds online What we’re reading, watching and listening to Video Young people from 18 countries in 6 continents react to the
Data and debate. An initial reflection from Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy: ‘Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality”, trying to stitch