Aim of the game: You are a small farmer in rural Africa. You must purchase, plant, grow, harvest and sell your crops at the market before the time runs out and the season is over. You need: Game board 3–6 players Crop Cards Deck of 36 Chance Cards (four sets)
Brighter Futures Ahead explores food security, gender equality and climate justice which are some of the key challenges facing young people globally today. This resource: Links issues in Zimbabwe to Ireland as part of a ‘what’s the stich?’ approach, including justice-centred and human rights approaches. Supports youth workers, youth group
This activity pack is divided into two sections: five activities for 5-7 year olds and five for 7-11 year olds. Most of the activities only require printing out some resource sheets, while some others require a sports hall, oranges or some paper plates for example. The activities are as follows:
The third audit of Development Education resources in Ireland draws on resources identified during the four-year period 2017 – 2020. A number of key events, updates and contexts in development and education have impacted on the style, content and focus areas of resource developments. Taken together, these events paint a
Following an extensive consultation process with educators in formal, non-formal education, including with youth groups, community organisations and stakeholder bodies and organisations, this strategy document builds on the learning and progress achieved from previous strategies. The strategy’s role is outlined by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney T.D in his
Las acciones diarias que se recomiendan son útiles para que la gente cree hábitos sostenibles, sea un agente de cambio y empiece a pensar en cuestiones de desarrollo. Cada ODS tiene un título de una palabra, que en última instancia deletrea la siguiente frase: “Si te importa el futuro, protagoniza
The resource supports teachers to teach through a justice lens, a lens with great educational benefits, which meets the requirements as laid out in a range of junior cycle specifications, and in the Framework for Junior Cycle (2015). The spread of COVID-19 around our world has led many people to
Concerns about the ways in which issues, peoples and places have been represented in global development (GD) communications have been raised since the 1980s. Criticisms have been levelled at media and non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs), including for their portrayal of colonial stereotypes, ‘us’ and ‘them’ binary relationships and identities, and
“Dear Teacher….I have been dreaming about this book for more than a decade. I am, and always have been, passionate about Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and visualised this book because I wanted to provide students and teachers with an accessible starting point for learning about this important field. …. I
A series of suggested teaching and learning activities are presented, for Junior Infants to Second Class, and for Third to Sixth Class, using the animation as a springboard for exploring what it means to be an active global citizen. The relevant curriculum strands, strand units and objectives are also provided.
As well as the game itself, and full instructions, there are also three activities which can be used as a tool to debrief and explore the issues further.
This pack includes five different activities, which can be used in English or Spanish. Curriculum links for all activities are also included for both the Irish junior and senior cycles. The five activities are: Introductory activity: What did you eat yesterday? Activity 1: Spot the Difference Activity 2: Food Sovereignty
The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Summit is upon us and all eyes will be on the Paris meeting and its potential wrangles, challenges and outcomes. Given the debates that characterised the previous Millennium Development Goals agenda, the temperature is likely to hot up with national governments now discussing the SDGs
At 4 pages in length this is a brief resource with original activity-driven illustrations, and step-by-step instructions on the topics of poverty and hunger and children’s needs. For more see the poverty and hunger resources on Trócaire website for educators Other Trócaire resources in the ‘Focus on’ series: Focus on
A quick guide to the Sustainable Development Goals…in 5 minutes
Who benefits from our food system, and who loses out? How can this possibly change? Introducing 5 cartoons from around the world on World Food Day.
Aids-related deaths are at the lowest level since their 2005 peak, down 21%, figures from UNAIDS suggest. The data also show that while the number of new infections has hovered around 2.7 million people globally every year since 2007, it is falling in 33 countries — 22 of them in
Across 29 countries within Africa, and more than 125 million women and girls cut, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) continues to be practiced from the Atlantic Coast to the Horn of Africa and beyond with wide variations in the percentage of girls and women cut within and across each country. More
Any post-Covid-19 activities, must respond to its challenges by ensuring we do not return to what we have known as “normal” life. The long read, by Tom Roche
There are two sides to the current world food crisis: with food shortages for hundreds of millions of people in developing counties resulting in widespread malnourishment with little or no access to food this is in stark contrast to the rise in affluent lifestyles and a free-flowing abundance in access
“People don’t ignore starving people so why should we ignore cold people? Frostbite kills too.” Excerpt from the official campaign Christmas video Imagine if every person in Africa saw the “Africa for Norway” video and this was the only information they ever got about Norway. What would they think about
The Irish Presidency of the European Council is well underway – but what does this mean for the development agenda and development education? Siobhán Sleeman investigates the opportunities for young people and the public to participate in building the post-Millennium Development Goals framework.
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
Link to full size Every Drop Counts infographic (2011) When was the last time you counted every drop of water you use on an average day? The infographic workshop factory over at GOOD Magazine have done it again.
Everyone has their favourites they tune in for during the Olympics, whether it’s the Olympic giants such as the infamous Usain Bolt, the immense Michael Phelps or their own national hero. However, as Ros Wynne-Jones of The Guardian puts it: ‘All competitors are, by definition, Olympian, but there are those
“I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.” – Confucius, Chinese philosopher and political theorist, 551-479 BC Immersion programmes are growing in popularity, with many Irish schools engaging and as the word spreads of successful trips many more are expressing interest. There are many questions surrounding
“Without forest we would have no access to clean water as the source of life …Forest is like the skin covering our body.” Chut Wutty 1964-2012 When the issue of ‘Blood Wood’ in Cambodia recently came to my attention, I was brought back to the time in 2008 at the
Photo: World Fairtrade Day by John Sargent. Flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Anyone who buys, sells or stocks goods that have achieved Fairtrade certification are not engaging in a ‘simple’ or ‘neutral’ act. Quite to the contrary, it is ENTIRELY political. Fairtrade Ireland, founded as the Irish Fair Trade Network (IFTN), in
The experiences of people seeking refuge are near impossible to understand for those of us whose lives have never been disrupted by conflict. Who do we turn to then, to make sense of such suffering? Salman Rushdie suggests that it is, “A poet’s work … to name the unnameable,” and
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
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