Becoming the Change We Want to See

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Becoming the Change We Want to See
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Part 1What is Global Citizenship?
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What is Global Citizenship?

• Citizenship, is the expression of character and
  the relationship one has in ones society.
• Global Citizenship is a step furtherexpression
  of the relationships one has with the global
  community.

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What is Global Citizenship?

• While Global Citizenship is a student outcome, it
  is not an extra curriculum topic or another
  subject to be placed in the timetable. Global
  citizenship is infused into the classroom through
  teaching practice and into the school through
  student led projects aimed at one of the
  Millennium development goals.

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What is Global Citizenship?

• It is empowering to establish a vision of the
  world one wants to create. Teachers have an
  important role in assisting their students in
  developing their visions.
• Only with clear vision can students explore their
  roles in improving the world and addressing the
  challenges that it will face in their lifetime.

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Building Global Citizenship

• Four pillars of Education

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Ask Yourself

• What can we do to make the World a better
  place?
• How should it be?
• How do I want it to be?

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Helping others through the United
NationsMillennium Development Goals

• The United Nations has identified eight
  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be
  achieved by 2015.
• They form a universal blueprint that has drawn
  commitment from all of the worlds countries and
  leading development institutions.

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The Millennium Development Goals are to

• eradicate extreme poverty and hunger,
• achieve universal primary education,
• promote gender equality and empower women,
• reduce child mortality,
• improve maternal health,
• combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases,
• ensure environmental sustainability, and
• develop a global partnership for development
• all by 2015!

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• Part 2
• Canada and the
• Millennium Development Goals

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Canada and the MDGs

• Industrialized nations like Canada have committed
  to helping Developing nations reach the UN
  Millennium Development Goals by providing aid,
  trade and debt relief.
• Canada is providing additional support in the
  areas of defence, technology and diplomatic
  development.

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Canada and the MDGs

• 1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• The challenge Global poverty rates are falling
  however, millions of people have sunk deep into
  poverty in many parts of the world. The slow
  growth of agricultural output and expanding
  populations have set back the progress that the
  world has made against hunger.
• Since 1990, millions of people have been
  chronically hungry in sub-Saharan Africa and
  Southern Asia, where half of the children under
  the age of 5 are malnourished.

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Canada and the MDGs

• Canada's contribution Economic development is a
  cornerstone of Canada's strategy to reduce
  poverty in developing countries, especially in
  rural areas. Canada spent 1.8 billion in support
  of private sector development between 2000 and
  2005. Agricultural production is critical not
  only to increase the food supply, but to also
  generate income for millions of people. In
  Africa, investment on agriculture and food
  security will quadruple between 2001 and 2006.

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Canada and the MDGs

• 2) Achieve universal primary education
• The challenge Enrolment in primary school has
  increased in all regions of the developing world
  however, more than 100 million children of
  primary school age are still not in school, two
  thirds of them girls.
• As many as 150 million drop out before completing
  Grade 5. In addition, some 860 million adults,
  two thirds of them women, still cannot read or
  write.

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Canada and the MDGs

• Canada's contribution Canada's priority is to
  improve the quality of, access to and equality in
  basic education in its partner countries.
• Between 2000 and 2005, Canada doubled its
  spending in basic education, for a total of 858
  million. By the end of 2005, Canada will devote
  more than 100 million annually to basic
  education in Africa alone.

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Canada and the MDGs

• 3) Promote gender equality and empower women
• The challenge The gender gap is closingalbeit
  slowlyin primary school enrolment in the
  developing world. This is a first step toward
  easing long- standing inequalities between women
  and men.
• In almost all developing regions, women represent
  a smaller share of wage earners than men and are
  often relegated to insecure and poorly paid jobs.
  

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Canada and the MDGs

• Though progress is being made, women still lack
  equal representation at the highest levels of
  government, holding only 16 percent of
  parliamentary seats worldwide.
• Canada's contribution Canada continues to be a
  world leader in promoting gender equality in all
  aspects of development, including trade, peace
  building, human rights and many other areas. All
  initiatives in Canada's aid program make gender
  equality considerations explicit and a wide range
  of projects directly address gender-based issues.

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Canada and the MDGs

• 4) Reduce child mortality
• The challenge Death rates in children under the
  age of 5 are dropping. However, 11 million
  children a year30,000 a daydie from preventable
  or treatable causes.
• Sometimes the cause is as simple as a lack of
  treatment for pneumonia or diarrhoea.
  Malnutrition contributes to over half of these
  deaths.

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Canada and the MDGs

• Canada's contribution To improve children's
  health, Canada targets food security and
  nutrition, access to clean water and sanitation,
  preventing and controlling communicable diseases
  and strengthening health systems.
• Canada's spending on health care more than
  tripled between 2000 and 2005, for a cumulative
  total of 3 billion, a significant portion of
  which targeted children.

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Canada and the MDGs

• 5) Improve maternal health
• The challenge Each year, more than a half
  million women die and 10 million suffer serious
  injury or disability during pregnancy and
  childbirth.
• A mothers death can be particularly devastating
  to the surviving children, who are likely to fall
  into poverty and become victims of exploitation.
• Universal access to reproductive health care,
  including family planning, is the starting point
  for maternal health.
• Currently, 200 million women have an unmet need
  for safe and effective contraceptive devices.

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Canada and the MDGs

• Canada's contribution Canada focuses on two
  major areas in maternal health sexual and
  reproductive health and safe motherhood,
  investing 54 million annually.

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Canada and the MDGs

• 6) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• The challenge AIDS has become the leading cause
  of premature death in sub-Saharan Africa and the
  fourth-largest killer worldwide. Though new drug
  treatments prolong life, there is no cure for
  AIDS.
• Malaria and tuberculosis together kill nearly as
  many people each year as AIDS and represent a
  severe drain on national economies.
• Tuberculosis is on the rise, partly as a result
  of HIV/AIDS, though a new international protocol
  to detect and treat the disease is showing
  promise.

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Canada and the MDGs

• Canada's contribution Fighting HIV/AIDS is one
  of Canada's top priorities and its investment
  totalled 532 million between 2000 and 2005.
• In 2005, Canada committed 592 million to combat
  preventable diseases in developing countries,
  including 390 million to the Global Fund to
  fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (GFATM),
  160 million to the Global Alliance for Vaccines
  and Immunization, 42 million for polio
  eradication, plus 100 million to the World
  Health Organization's "3 by 5" Initiative over
  two years and ongoing support to the
  International AIDS Vaccine.

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Canada and the MDGs

• 7) Ensure environmental sustainability
• The challenge Most countries have committed to
  the principles of sustainable development, but
  this has not resulted in sufficient progress to
  reverse the loss of the world's environmental
  resources. Achieving this goal will require
  greater attention to the plight of the poor,
  whose day-to-day subsistence is often directly
  linked to the natural resources around them.
• Access to safe drinking water has increased, but
  half of the developing world still lacks basic
  sanitation.

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Canada and the MDGs

• Nearly one billion people live in urban slums
  because the growth of urban populations is
  outpacing improvements in housing and the
  availability of productive jobs.
• Canada's contribution Canada assesses all of its
  development assistance activities for their
  impact on the environment and helps its partners
  build their capacity to manage natural resources
  and address such issues as desertification and
  climate change.
• Canada has contributed 200 million to focusing
  on environmental issues.

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Canada and the MDGs

• 8) Develop a global partnership for development
• The challenge The United Nations Millennium
  Declaration represents a global social agreement
• developing countries will do more to ensure their
  own development and
• developed countries support them through aid,
  debt relief and better opportunities for trade.
• Progress in each of these areas has already begun
  to yield results, but developed and developing
  countries have fallen short of targets they have
  set for themselves.

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Canada and the MDGs

• Achieving the MDGs must include
• increased aid and debt relief
• opening of trade, and
• accelerated transfer of technology and improved
  employment opportunities for the young people in
  the developing world.
• Canada's contribution In addition to focusing
  its aid program toward achievement of the
  Millennium Development Goals, Canada has moved
  quickly to increase the flow of aid and non-aid
  resources to developing countries.

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Once Again Ask Yourself

• What can we do to make the World a better
  place?
• How should it be?
• How do I want it to be?

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• Part 3
• Youth Action

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BrainstormWhat can We do in Our School?

• Which of the UN Millennium Development Goals
  would be most significant to our peers?
• What kinds of projects can we undertake at the
  school level?at the community level?

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SACSC Youth Action

• The Safe and Caring Youth Action projects provide
  an opportunity within the school for youth to
  identify and address specific issues and
  interests.
• Focussing on the MDGs, Youth participants conduct
  research among their peers and then develop,
  undertake and evaluate projects that address the
  issues/interests they uncover.

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Youth ActionBenefits

• Through collaboration with each other and with
  non-governmental organizations, youth will
• increase their awareness of global issues
• learn about how global issues impact their
  school, local community and the larger global
  community and
• discover the positive impact their actions, as
  global citizens, can have on their school,
  community and on the larger global community.

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Youth Action

• For additional information on the Youth Action
  process, please consult the brochure, available
  from the Society for Safe and Caring Schools and
  Communities website www.sacsc.ca/Youth_Action.
  htm.

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What Else Could We Do?

• Want to start small? Try one of these projects
• Join the UNESCO Associated Schools Network
  (ASPnet).
• Hold a 30 Hour Famine or a fundraiser for the
  Food Bank.
• Host a cultural exchange through Change for
  Children.
• Initiate a school-wide program on rights and
  responsibilities, exploring the CanadianCharter
  of Rights and Freedoms and creating a school
  charter of rights and responsibilities.

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What Else Could We Do?

• Invite a trauma response counsellor, to speak to
  the school about disaster relief.
• Sponsor a foster child or adopting families
  and assisting them with basic needs.
• Raise funds for international support (ie digging
  water wells or building schools) or participate
  in the Global Village program through Habitat for
  Humanity.
• Organize an Environmental Club to educates
  members and the student body about environmental
  and social justice issues.

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What Else Could We Do?

• Hold global awareness celebrations in honour of
  Human Rights Day, Anti-Racism Day, International
  Womens Day and Earth Day.
• Host guest speakers in a variety of fields, with
  diverse ethno-cultural backgrounds and life
  experiences. (for example, activist, elder,
  feminist, LGBT, philanthropist)
• For more information or ideas for Global
  Education
• projects in your school, please visit the Society
  for Safe
• and Caring Schools and Communities web site
• www.sacsc.ca

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Additional Resources

• The Society for Safe and Caring Schools and
  Communities
• www.sacsc.ca/Global_Education.htm
• Canadian International Development Agency
• www.acdi-cida.gc.ca
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
  Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• www.un.org/millenniumgoals/index.html
• The Alberta Teachers Association (ATA)
• www.teachers.ab.ca/

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Additional Resources

• Ainembabazi Childrens Project
• www.ainembabazi.org/index.html
• Alberta Council for Global Cooperation
• www.web.net/acgc/
• CAUSE Canada
• www.cause.ca/
• Change for Children Association
• www.changeforchildren.org/

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Additional Resources

• John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights
• http//jhcentre.org/
• The Child Is Innocent Foundation
• www.thechildisinnocent.ca/
• United Nations Association in Canada Edmonton
  Branch
• www.edmonton.unac.org/

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References

• Segments of this presentation were drawn directly
  from the Society for Safe and Caring Schools and
  Communities resource Building Peace from the
  Inside Out A toolbox for preparing students for
  global citizenship(with permission)