Project Summaries - October 2008 Recipients

Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust

Maori and the United Nations: An introduction to the UN system

To undertake a roadshow and run a series of 6 one day workshops in Maori communities to inform Maori about the UN, in particular the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The basis of the workshops is an educational DVD about the UN, written resources and presentations. Participants will be expected to participate in their own learning by way of question and answer sessions and workshopping. The roadshow would take place on the East Coast and the following areas – Te Kaha, Ruatoria, Gisborne, Hastings, Wairarapa and Wellington.

Auckland Festival Trust

The Arrival Arts Education Programme: An Exploration of the Migrant Experience

Shaun Tan's award winning book The Arrival is a universal migrant tale of overcoming hardship, of humanity and hope. Like the book, Auckland Festival's new stage adaptation is a tribute to migrants, refugees and displaced people everywhere. The premiere season of The Arrival will be accompanied by a significant Global Education programme about the refugee and displaced person experience and promote understanding of the role of migrants and refugees in our increasingly diverse society.

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions-Te Kauae Kaimahi

International Workers' Rights Education Project

The project is to develop an education kit and associated information leaflets illustrating the importance of international human rights and labour standards for workers in two projects which the NZCTU has partnered; an education project on International Labour Conventions for Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot Thailand, and a union capacity building project for Dalit workers in Tamil Nadu India. The kit will be used to educate union members in New Zealand about the struggle of these workers to achieve social justice through collective activity, and to assist them to understand the global relevance of the issues in their struggle.

Response Trust

Te Wai Puna Ariki: Water: Neighbours in Development

Projects are to cultivate awareness of the interdependence between social and environmental systems, particularly in relation to water ecosystems. Workshops and film drawing on development case studies across Oceania eg, coastal fisheries initiatives, water supply, solar installation and agriculture. Further examples of development iniatives are a School for Postive Futures set up as a poverty intervention initiative in the Philippines, environmental education in Papua New Guinea, and the Live and Learn programme in Fiji

UNICEF New Zealand

Children and Conflict Year 10 Unit

This resource is a booklet to aid student learning about the impact of conflict on children and how to respond to their needs during and after conflict. It contains worksheets, a CD and associated information for teachers. It fits within the NZ curriculum under the study of Human Rights in Year 10 social studies, Content includes how children's lives are affected by conflict, viewpoints from children who have experienced war eg, Central Africa and Timor-Leste, and the interventions currently being used to protect children in conflict situations.

Waikato Institute for Leisure & Sport Studies

Learning for Sustainability - Sustainable Consumption and Your Ecological Footprint

The project is to have a trained teacher deliver a modular (2 x 2 hour sessions) programme of learning for sustainability to Year 9 students within the Greater Waikato region that will engage them in critical thinking about consumption. The educational materials and activities will be explicity global but will also highlight the relevance of the issue of consumption to those living in New Zealand.

World Vision New Zealand

NCEA 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami case study

This project aims to produce a textbook for Year 11 NCEA Geography. It will also be relevant for Years 7 to 10 Social Studies classes. Using the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami as a case study, the activities and information included will:

- Raise awareness and understanding of how disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami affect the everyday lives of individuals, communities and societies.

- Encourage critical thinking on how the global community can prepare and respond to the effects of such an extreme natural event.

- Provide opportunity to reflect on how all of us can and do influence the extent of a disaster's impact through our response.