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Project Work NGOs and Charities 2011


GENERAL INDEX

Selecting our good causes

Planning how to support our good causes

Outcomes of our work

Appendix

PARTNERS

Portugal

Spain

Turkey

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth’s SchoolQueen Elizabeth’s SchoolQueen Elizabeth’s SchoolQueen Elizabeth’s School Lisbon, Portugal


INTRODUCTION The European Year of Volunteering 2011 Official Launch in Portugal – Lisbon Tour Stop in Forum Picoas The Participation of Queen Elizabeth’s School Participants were informed of volunteer opportunities and activities

in Forum Picoas, hosted by Fernanda Freitas, representative of the

National Coordination Body of Portugal and Zeinal Bava, Executive

President of PT Telecom.

The programme was presented by Margarida Marques, Head of the

European Commission (EC) Representation in Portugal. She

explained that the objective of the EC Representation is to establish

similar Tour Stops in all the regional capitals throughout the year.

Four Principle Objectives:

• reduce the obstacles to volunteering in the EU

• give means to volunteer organizations and better the quality

of volunteering

• compensate and recognize volunteer work

• create awareness of the value and importance of

volunteering

Queen Elizabeth’s School was represented by its students, from

grades 2, 3, and 4, as they interviewed the various representatives

of both Social Solidarity Associations and NGOs (Non Governmental

Organizations), at Forum Picoas, from February 3rd

– 8th

.

Queen Elizabeth’s School – Denise Lester Foundation, in celebration

of the European Year of Volunteering 2011 decided to open its

doors to various local communities in need. QES has also created a

film on active citizenship and the importance of volunteering,

depicted through the exploration of the themes by its students.

Selecting our good causes At Queen Elizabeth’s School, we aim at raising our pupils’

awareness of the importance of making a contribution to the lives

of those less fortunate who need the help of others to survive.

To this end, every year our children and their parents are involved

in several campaigns to collect all sorts of goods, namely food,

clothes and toys, which are then distributed among several local

charities.

Considering that we are celebrating in 2011 the European Year of

Volunteering, we decided to extend those initiatives and do some

research to learn about – and support – other organizations,

namely NGOs and charities.

The organizations that were selected were:

An NGO: OIKOS (See appendix 1). This Portuguese NGO was chosen

by the students of E3 for their project work. Its initiatives focus

mainly on transforming the lives of disadvantaged people across

Africa and Latin America.

A Charity: PORTUGUESE ASSOCIATION OF THE ORDER OF MALTA (See appendix 2). This charity was chosen by the students of Q4 for

their project work because of the impact it has on the lives of the

less fortunate. In Portugal, the Order helps many who suffer, such

as drug addicted youngsters from Castelo Branco and Oporto,

visitors who come in pilgrimage from all over the country to Fátima

in May, August and October by giving them medical and spiritual


support. The Sovereign Order of Malta helps the poor in about 400

countries in the world. Their main priorities are to help the

population in disaster zones in case of tsunamis, earthquakes and

places with serious illnesses like cholera.

Planning how to support our good causes OIKOS Children started by doing some research about OIKOS. The

outcomes of their research were discussed in the classroom, with

both the Portuguese and the English teachers. The topics addressed

involved the history of the organization, the countries where it has

developed its main initiatives, their humanitarian action in

situations of emergency and catastrophes, their efforts to

contribute to the concept of sustainable development and their

projects of education towards global citizenship.

A trip was planned to the European Year of Volunteering Tour Stop

in Lisbon, at Forum Picoas, and the students had the opportunity to

prepare an interview to the representative of OIKOS, Mrs. Cristina

Peixinho, to take place at this event. The interview was conducted

in loco solely by the students at Forum Picoas.

The following week, the students wrote a summary of the answers

given to each question with the help of the Portuguese and English

teachers.

With the collaboration of the Arts teacher, the students drew and

coloured a comic strip based on the interview and completed it

with their own questions and answers.

With the collaboration of the ICT teacher, the drawings were

compiled in a Powerpoint and the voices of the students reading

their own texts were recorded to complement the presentation.

Finally, the students debated the importance of solidarity and

support, and designed a few posters to ask for donations to be

given to one of OIKOS’ current projects, which consists of providing

families in Guatemala with a small farm, offering them seeds and

tools and teaching them how to look after their crops.

This campaign is still ongoing at school at the moment.

ORDER OF MALTA Children were asked to research the work developed by the Order

of Malta on the Internet. Information about the history of the

organization, its expansion throughout the world and, especially, its

humanitarian work in Portugal was discussed in class.

A questionnaire was devised both in Portuguese and English classes

by the children in order to be used at the European Year of

Volunteering Tour Stop in Lisbon, which was held in Forum Picoas,

where the children interviewed the President of the Portuguese

Association of the Order of Malta.

After the interview these notes were used to write an article which

was illustrated by the children in their Art class.

These same children have been visiting a Retirement home on

Friday afternoons and are encouraged to read stories and have

short conversations thus, brightening up the day for the elderly

during their visits.


Outcomes of our work The children really appreciated this opportunity of learning about a

Portuguese NGO and the importance of their work carried out all

over the world. They had plenty of learning opportunities and the

diversity of tasks and activities developed allowed for many

different skills to be enriched.

In the end, the children also had the opportunity to experience

firsthand what it feels like to set up a campaign and get precious

donations that will eventually save many lives.

Through their visit to the Retirement home the children have been

exposed to some of the problems old people face such as,

loneliness, poor health, and limitations in movement. They have,

therefore, become aware of the need to respect and learn from the

elderly.

In preparation for the Christmas season, students, staff and parents

donated school resources, clothing and toys to a local charity

supported by the Portuguese Association of the Order of Malta.


Selecting our good causes Students proposed and chose three different NGOs:

MSF – 60 % of the votes

Greenpeace-25%

Unicef- 15%

WHY DID WE CHOOSE MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES

They thought that this was an excellent NGO because:

• They believe that helping people to have good health and

good nutrition is very important.

• These volunteers use their time to help people in need.

• They take medicines, food, water, etc. to countries that

suffer from natural dissasters or wars like Haiti or Japan.

WHY DID WE CHOOSE GREENPEACE

Greenpeace protects the environment from: Climate change, toxic

and nuclear pollution, the massive chopping down of trees in forest

and the melting of the icecaps.

Planning how to support our good causes Natalie, the Valnalon advisor (Asturian Business Development Agency for

schools), explained our students what a cooperative is and how to create

one.

Our students learnt that it means a way of working with classmates and

also it could teach them how to value things because they were involved

in things such as how to price the products.

Colegio Público Atalía Gijon, Spain


During the course 2009-2010 we decided to start working with NGOs by

creating a students’ cooperative in one of the Year 5 sets. This school year

we extended the activity to three sets, and as a result we had three

different cooperatives (two in Year 5 and one in Year 6).

First steps:

1. How to choose members, responsibilities and name

They shared responsibilities by choosing their own president,

secretary and treasurer, deciding that all of the students in the

classroom would be members. Peers suggested different names,

eventually opting for “Pequeños Manitas” (small handy people).

2. The assembly

During meetings students talked about all the important things

that they would have to do, such as deciding upon the initial

investment (3€), proposing and selecting ideas for products and

planning timetables, resources, etc. that they would need for the

production process.

3. Statutes

They established the Cooperative statutes in different assemblies.

The most important ones, according to them were:

• Selecting products they would sell.

• Deciding upon the rights and obligations of all members.

4. Selecting our logo

Children and the teachers decided and created the logo.

5. Production process

They proposed many different products and, at the end, opted

for: picnic bags, canvas bags, greeting cards, magnets and plaster

letters. Then teachers and students bought the materials they

need to make the products.

At the end we all worked and had lots of fun creating them.

6. Market - Responsibilities

The market was organized by the teachers during an assembly.

The date, time and location of the job were established so that

there were two cashiers, two sellers, etc.

Outcomes of our work What did the students do with their money?

• We think this is a way of giving something back to society, of

showing solidarity towards people in need, and of helping to

preserve the environment.

• They donated the 10% of their benefits obtained from the

Cooperative work to the NGOs. Last year they donated it to

UNICEF. This year they chose Medecins sans frontiers and

Greenpeace.

They made a joint activity that was going to eat at Mc Donald's and with

the remaining money they bought new materials for this year’s work.


Selecting our good causes Today, having the consciousness of being a NGO and realizing their good-

practises are important in all over the world. If a person wants to do

something by himself, it is almost impossible to do; however if you are a

member of any NGO and follow what NGOs are doing for humanity, you

can do more for the world.

By this aim, our school has decided to cooperate with two common

national foundations. We thouhgt that our students should have the

awareness of charity and environment. In fact, the reasons why we chose

these two topics are related with today’s need: Habitat of living beings is

in danger in many ways and there are still hungry and poor human in the

world.

These Foundations are :

• NGO 1: Kızılay ( Red Crescent Society )

• NGO 2: TEMA VAKFI ( The TEMA Foundation - The Turkish

Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and

the Protection of Natural Habitats )

How and why did we choise these foundations?

We have social clubs at school and every friday the responsible teacher of

the club and volunteered students have an hour meeting at school to plan

and carry out some activites related with their social club. Two of these

Social Clubs are called “Civil Defence Club” and “Environment Club”. Civil

Defence Club is related to “KIZILAY Foundation” and Environmet Club is

Kurtuluş İlköğretim Okulu Gediz, Turkey


related to “TEMA Foundation” when it is considered their similarity in

activities they carry out.

Planning how to support our good causes 1- Works of Civil Defence Club related to KIZILAY ( Red Crescent

Foundation ):

This club carries out informative meetings or seminars, drills and activities

such as first aid, earthquake, fire, requirements in wars or any other

disasters in its annual programme. In accordance with these plans, it will

be useful to cooperate with KIZILAY which is generally national but in fact

a worldwide organization. Additionally, this foundation has equal status

with all foreign National Societies and shares equal responsibilities and

duties in helping each other with them. This year’s most important events

are as you all know the Japanese Eartquake Disaster and Libya War which

are stil spoken in all over the world. Our school is interested and sensible

in these disasters and aims to help these countries by organizing donation

campaign. Teachers, students and parents are encouraged to participate

these donation campaigns which is announced in KIZILAY’s offical web-

page.

Also, students and responsible teacher of this club visit the KIZILAY

Foundation of District in certain times of the education year to plan their

new work programmes. From now on, informative Seminar about this

foundation and its national and worldwide activities will be held for

students at our school in each education years.

2- Works of Environment Club related to TEMA ( The TEMA

Foundation (The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion,

for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats )

Environment Club carries out activities such as planting trees, protection

of life spaces,seminars or meetings on keeping the environment clean,

cleaning campaign etc. When these activities considered, it can easily be

said that this club can cooperate with TEMA Foundation. TEMA has

194.683 volunteers today. We believe this number should be increased

and society must have more information about this organization and get

interested in its activities more. There are reprenstatives in every cities

and districts for this foundation.

We, as kurtuluş primary school , encourage our students to live in a

cleaner and healtier environment. So, this club chooses the cleanest class

of month regularly. Students clean the school and its garden every week.

In order to give students the consciousness of living in a healthy

environment, students are taken to local forests by the cooperation of

schools and local governments and they get experienced by planting trees

there by themselves.

Finally, apart from carrying on their current activitiees, this club decided

to contact with a reprenstative of TEMA to give seminars at school every

year.

Outcomes of our work The students enjoy their club activities and are keen on cooperating with

such Foundations now. They learn the imporance of helping others and


sharing. As a famous Turkish Philosopher –Yunus Emre- says “love every

creature as it is created by GOD”, we aim to emphasize that people are

always equal and same in each part of the world. Our welfare campaign to

Japan and Libya reflects and proves this.

Considering the proverb “nature of tomorrow is created from now on”,

we informed our students about the importance of keeping green,

planting trees to live in a healthy world, our real house.


Selecting our good causes At Shiremoor Primary School we encourage our pupils to become worthy

members of society, both in the way that they present themselves and by

making a contribution to the lives of others. To this end we work with a

number of different charities. This year, the pupils, who represent each

class, and form our ‘Stay Safe and Happy Management Committee’,

suggested to the school that we should consider other charities to

support and they specifically wanted to support international charities

rather than the more local charities who we usually work with. The

committee members asked all classes to create a short presentation

about a charity that they would like school to support and reasons why.

All classes created short presentations about their chosen charity before

the Stay Safe and Happy Management Committee voted for the two

charities that they felt would be most exciting for our pupils to be

involved with. The charities that they selected were:

A local Charity: Comic Relief (See appendix 1) This charity focuses on

transforming the lives of poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged people

across the UK and Africa.

An NGO: World Wildlife Fund (See appendix 2) This charity is concerned

with building a positive future world wide, where human needs are met

‘in harmony with nature’.

The Stay Safe and Happy Management Committee then created some

aims for our involvement:

1) To help people around the world less fortunate than ourselves.

Shiremoor Primary School Newcastle, United Kingdom


2) To learn about how we can make a difference to the world

environment to make it a better place for people and animals.

Planning how to support our good causes The Stay Safe and Happy Management Committee then asked classes to

propose ways that we could support each charity. Children had a lot of

ideas for Red Nose Day (Comic Refief). They decided that people should

dress up for school and wear red clothes. All classes were given their own

activities to do throughout the day and the ideas supported different

curriculum areas e.g.

English Funny nose poems

Red Nose Day Posters

Letters to parents asking them to

support Red Nose Day

‘The Day I had a Red Nose’ stories

Diary entries as an African child

Joke writing

Maths Counting red noses

Adding amounts of money for us to

have a comfortable life style and

considering what that money would

buy in Africa

Learning the value of pennies and

pounds

Cookery activities with weighing

and measuring as a focus

Science Learn about forces using catapults

to launch red noses at targets

Create science colour experiments

e.g. Does the colour of water affect

the rate of evaporation?

Does colour affect taste?

Art Red art pictures

Self portraits with red noses

African art appreciation

History History of Red Nose Day

Geography Looking at Africa on the map

Looking at photographs of Africa

and drawing conclusions about life

in Africa

Orienteering to find the Red Noses

Design Technology Designing, producing, advertising

and selling products for funds for

Red Nose Day.

Designing Red nose Day board

games

P.E. Circus P.E.- acrobatics, tricks,

juggling, dancing

When fundraising for the World Wildlife Fund, the children felt that all

classes should have a day of considering how human actions could make a

difference to the world. Each Year group was therefore given a theme

related to the charity and all tasks had an element of parental

involvement.

Foundation Stage ‘Wild Animal day’ Children dressed


up as animals. Make masks with

parents to encourage parents to

donate money to sponsor one of

the World Wildlife’s animals for

adoption.

Vote for animal to adopt.

Year 1 Learn about food chains and how

these can be affected if something

is taken out of the chain.

Year 2 Look at different kinds of habitat.

Think about how animals habitats

can be destroyed. Visit the local

building site and consider what

animals may lose their habitat as a

result of building work.

Year 3 Carry out drama work to debate

about whether an exotic pet shop

should be allowed to open in the

area.

Year 4 Conduct a survey of how many

children have cars and how often

their cars are in use and how many

miles their car averages in a week.

Create graphs for a display.

Consider how carbon emissions

affect the environment and

consider ways that each family may

use their car less (thus saving

money on petrol) .

Year 5 Recycling project- Looking at ways

to cut down on rubbish. Create

giant junk models to advertise

recycling.

Year 6 Reducing carbon dioxide emissions

by increasing the use of energy

efficient technologies and

renewable energy resources like

wind and solar power are necessary

steps in the effort to slow climate

change. The children had to look at

examples of the use of solar power

and the benefits and then make

their own solar oven.

Outcomes of our work The children really enjoyed the work that they carried out about both

charities and had a large number of learning opportunities along the way.

Most importantly they were able to contribute money that they had

raised, to help others less fortunate than themselves.

Raising awareness of global issues has been achieved by our charitable

work and it is clear that the children are becoming more active global

citizens as they are realising the contributions that they all make


Appendices

Portugal

OIKOS

OIKOS – Cooperação e Desenvolvimento is a Portuguese Non-

Governmental Organization founded in 1988 which works mainly towards

the eradication of poverty and famine. It also seeks to strengthen

sustainability-oriented actions among local communities and it promotes

the education towards global citizenship, namely among the younger

generations, working alongside with schools and several social agents.

Throughout the last two decades, OIKOS has developed different projects

in some of the poorest parts of the world, working with local communities

and volunteers to promote public health, sanitation, nutrition, water and

education.

Their projects of Humanitarian Action, Sustainable Development and

Education towards Global Citizenship benefits over 380 thousand people

every year.

Currently, OIKOS has delegations in many countries, including Portugal,

Peru, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti and

Mozambique.

www.oikos.pt


THE PORTUGUESE ASSOCIATION OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE

SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA – A PORTUGUESE CHARITY TRUST

The birth of the Order dates back to around 1048. Merchants from the

ancient Marine Republic of Amalfi obtained from the Caliph of Egypt the

authorisation to build a church, convent and hospital in Jerusalem, to care

for pilgrims of any religious faith or race. With time, the Order became a

lay religious Order, traditionally of military, chivalrous, noble nature.

Its 13,000 members include Professed Friars and others who have made

vows of obedience. The other Knights and Dames are lay members,

devoted to the exercise of Christian virtue and charity. What distinguishes

the Knights of Malta is their commitment to reaching their spiritual

perfection within the Church and to expending their energies serving the

poor and the sick. Its motto is “Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum”,

defence of the Faith and assistance to the poor and the suffering, which

become reality through the voluntary work carried out by Dames and

Knights in humanitarian assistance and medical and social activities.

Today the Order carries out these activities in over 120 countries.

In Portugal, the Order helps many who suffer, such as drug addicted

youngsters from Castelo Branco and Oporto, visitors who come in

pilgrimage from all over the country to Fátima in May, August and

October by giving them medical and spiritual support.

In Portugal, 25.000 pilgrims in Fátima have been helped so far. Besides

that, the Portuguese Association of the Order of Malta also helps the

homeless, the prisoners, the old people and the handicapped.

The Sovereign Order of Malta helps the poor in about 400 countries in the

world. Their main priorities are to help the population in disaster zones in

case of tsunamis, earthquakes and places with serious illnesses like

cholera.

http://www.orderofmalta.org/the-order-and-its-

institutions/225/mission/?lang=en

OIKOS CAMPAIGN PROMOTED BY E3 AT Q.E.S


Spain

MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES

In 1971 a small group of doctors and journalists founded Médecins sans

Frontières in Paris. It is one of the largest independent humanitarian

organizations in the world.

Most of their funding comes from contribution of more than 3,8 million

members and allies around the world (more than 487.00 in Spain). This

financial independence allow them to decide where and when to

intervene to provide assistance to populations in crisis situations, without

regard to race, religion or political ideology.

MSF control the supply chain of support from their origin to their final

destination. To do this they have two central purchasing and warehousing

in Europe, and they have stocks in other parts of the world to cover

immediate emergency.

Their work has received, among others, the Prince of Asturias Award for

Concord in 1991, the Council of Europe Award for Human Rights in 1992,

the Medal 1993 Nanse Refugee Award, the Rooselvelt’s Four Freedoms in

1996, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, the Zayed Prize for Health Award in

2002 and the King Hussein Humanitarian Leadership in 2004.

http://www.msf.org/

GREENPEACE

Greenpeace is an environmental organization that was born in 1971 in a

very spontaneous way, when a group of Canadian anti-nuclear activists,

some Quakers and American conscientious objectors who had taken

refuge in Canada for not participating in the Vietnam War, formed a small

organization called “Do not make a wave committee” (Committee “do not

provoke a tidal wave”). This group was protesting against U.S. nuclear

tests carried out in Amchitka Islands (Alaska), northern Canada.

Greenpeace is an environmental international organization, economic and

politically independent that only accept financial contributions from

individuals and receives no money from governments or companies. The

support of donors and partners is what allow them to carry out their work

on environmental protection.

They work in:

- protecting forests

- climate change

- stop pollution

- environmental conflicts

- peace

- transgenic

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/


Turkey

Kızılay

Red Crescent Society

TEMA VAKFI

The TEMA Foundation - The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil

Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats

United Kingdom

Comic Relief

Comic Relief was launched in Sudan in 1985, live on BBC One. At that

time, a devastating famine was crippling Ethiopia and international

assistance was desperately needed. Over the years, in addition to

supporting international aid, Comic Relief has also provided support to

families in the UK who suffer in circumstances of poverty.

Comic Relief is a charity which raises money by making people laugh.

Many well-known British comedians are heavily involved in the charity

which has raised over 650 million for good causes at home and abroad

during its 26 year history.

The biggest appeal run by Comic Relief is the bi- annual ‘Red Nose Day’.

In the weeks leading up to the day shops across the country sell a

specially designed ‘Red Noses’ and other merchandise to raise money. On

the day a telethon is held and dozens of well known comedians and

celebrities perform whilst encouraging donations from the public.

Schools are encouraged to fund raise for the charity on the day whilst

educating children about the good causes which the charity supports.

http://www.rednoseday.com/

http://www.comicrelief.com/home


World Wildlife Fund

The WWF is the world’s leading environmental organization founded in

1961 and now active in over 100 countries.

The aim of the WWF is to tackle global threats to people and nature such

as climate change, the peril to endangered species and habitats, and the

unsustainable consumption of the world’s natural resources. They aim to

achieve this by influencing how governments, businesses and people

think, learn and act in relation to the world around us, and by working

with local communities to improve their livelihoods and the environment

upon which we all depend.

One of the areas in which the WWF can have a great impact is in

educating people about the issues they are campaigning for. As part of

this WWF are committed to reaching out to schools to support in the

environmental education of young people. They provide resources for

teachers to use in school to convey the messages of environmental

conservation and sustainability.

The WWF also lead high profile campaigns such as ‘Earth Hour’ every year

which encourages children and young people to become active global

citizens and raise their awareness of global issues which affect us all.

http://www.wwf.org.uk/

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