Project Summaries - March 2007 Recipients

Kotare Trust, Research and Education for Social Change

Global Justice and Community Action Workshop and follow up process

The workshop and follow up process is about exposing a range of 15-17 year old young people with leadership capacity, to some critical global issues information. The workshop will have a participatory learning process around three global case studies (the Middle East, the Philippines,  West Papua) exploring human rights and citizens' rights and as connected to underlying social and economic forces. The purpose of the process is to raise awareness, support analysis through the facilitated process, and to support wider community action through the follow up. The young people would be selected because of their networks with their communities and their capacity to take the awareness and analysis into action.

Oxfam New Zealand

Wara Bilong Life (Water for Life)

The aim of the interactive Internet project, Wara Bilong Life (Papua New Guinea pidgin for Water for Life) was for New Zealand students to gain an understanding and awareness of how the issues of water, sanitation and disease affect students of their own age in Papua New Guinea. Students researched sanitation and health education in their own school and then investigated similarities and differences between their schools and schools in the Eastern Highlands. They also investigated what is needed to clean hands to prevent disease. Using this research the students then designed prototypes of hand washing initiatives and accompanying health education with particular reference to their effectiveness, durability, user-friendliness, cost, and communication with associated health education.

http://www.megabright.co.nz/WaraBlongLife/home.htm

Outcomes

Twenty three schools took part in the project and digital photographs of prototypes from six schools were posted on the website (http://www.megabright.co.nz/WaraBlongLife/solutions.html) and were evaluated by members of the Oxfam Water for Survival Programme. For many of the students it was the first time they had investigated how their peers lived in a completely different environment. The project easily integrated into reading, procedural writing, social studies and health. However, the final term of a year is not a good one to run such a project. The classes often have camps and school activities which interrupt the term.

Further News

The Wara Bilong Life project has been short listed for
the education section of the Stockholm Challenge, a prestigious Information and Communication Technology for development award.

http://event.stockholmchallenge.se/category/Education

SurfAid International

Malaria sucks - DVD & teacher resource

An educational DVD accompanied by a year 10 teaching unit to raise awareness in young adults that malaria is the world's 2nd largest killer and that a child dies every 30 seconds of it. The resource will also empower them with constructive ideas, activities and tools outlining how they can help.

UNICEF New Zealand

The Right to Food - resource in support of Guides badge

A supplementary resource in support of a Girl Guides badge on The Right to Food. The resource will be a handout focusing on the global perspective of a child's right to food. There will be a different handout for each level of Guides (e.g. Pippins, Brownies, etc). The handout will cover global issues related to food such as the benefits of educating women and children about nutrition, how this right is denied to children in countries affected by natural disasters or war, and investigating the function of feeding centres in refugee camps.