Just Like Me? Is a global awareness programme designed for Australian primary schools. We seek to raise awareness of our students, about the issues faced by their peers in poverty stricken countries.
We offer workshops tailored for the students and the learning programme in which they are involved.
Depending on the age and interest of the students (and teachers) we offer:
Workshops for Grades Prep - 2 that cover an introduction global issues of poverty ; how lives of children are impacted when they live in countries with extreme poverty. We look at the stories of real children living in Ghana, India or Uganda and ask Australian children to consider how these children are the same as them with dreams and aspirations; how their needs for food, education, shelter, care….are the same; and yet how different their lives are too; This would be followed by rotational activities based on the lives of those children, exposing Australian students to real life in those areas. The aim is to have a mixture of fun and thought provoking activities . These workshops are usually about 75-90 minutes long.
Workshops for Grades 3-6 vary in nature. They can cover any of or a combination of the following:
a general Introduction to “poverty”: how poverty impacts children around the world; particularly in developing countries.
a discussion of the difference between needs and wants, and what happens when children’s’ needs are not met (more suitable for Grades 3 and 4
a discussion about rights and responsibilities with emphasis on Rights of the Child (more suitable for Grades 5 and 6)
a discussion about Millennium Development Goals;
Rotational activities to generate an understanding of the impact – these vary from chores based activities to games; (this needs a larger space; ideally out doors; access to water is essential)
My aim is to get children thinking and talking about poverty; and understanding how much Australian children have.
These workshops are usually about 90 minutes long.
Extra information
Ideally each workshop caters to 2 classes of students.
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