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Make Poverty History has gathered ideas and resources to help inform and inspire students – and to help teachers engage young people - in discussing poverty.
Send my friend to school
Visiting the PM and MPs
Writing letters to MPs
Simulation Games & Activities
Interact
Millennium Development Goals resources
Related links for students on poverty
Related links for teachers on poverty
Send my friend to school
What’s in this kit?
Section 1:
Activities and resources exploring the importance of education.
Section 2:
Activities and resources exploring education and global poverty.
Section 3:
Activities and resources for students to respond to the issues they’ve encountered. Students will decorate and write personal messages on a cut-out 'friend' – emphasising the importance of access to basic education and asking our leaders to help 'Send My Friend To School'.
Download the kit (PDF: 1.6 MB)
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Visiting the PM and MPs
Encourage young people to participate in our democratic system.
For information and ideas go to:
http://www.anglicord.org.au
or download this Guide for Visiting Parliamentarians (PDF: 167KB)
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Writing letters to PM and MPs
Students can also write to their local MP and to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. A letter writing guide is available to download:
Letter writing guide (PDF: 129KB)
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Simulation Games & Activities
There are lots of resources available online for teachers wanting to explore social responsibility and sustainable development with students.
There are also resources for student action groups to run lunch-time activities and simulation games.
Australian Volunteers International
http://www.australianvolunteers.com/index.asp?menuid=230
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
http://www.cafod.org.uk/schools
The "Trading Trainers"
http://www.cafod.org.uk/resources/secondary_schools
Global Gang
http://www.globalgang.org.uk/planetteacher/
Oxfam
http://www.oxfam.org.au/publications/teaching/
Tear
http://kids4kids.org.au/
http://www.tear.org.au/resources/simgames.shtml
World Vision
http://www.worldvision.com.au/learn/schoolResources/teacherresources.asp
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Interact
STIR - Stir is an online community for youth activists. It's a space to work with like-minded people on creative campaigns that tackle big issues such as child exploitation, unfair trade, HIV/AIDS and poverty.
So don’t just sit there: tell us what stirs you in The Blender forum and meet other Stirrers. Channel your creative energy into our Art4Aid competitions. Sign up to our regular STIR MAIL - world news, competitions, events and stirring suggestions. www.stir.org.au
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Millennium Development Goals resources
Play the Main Game
Learn more about the issues tackled in the Millennium Development Goals with this World Vision resource.
Caritas has produced a 10 minute DVD/video on the Millennium Development Goals. You can order this from the Caritas website.
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