Meetings

Suggestions for the school year 2009/2010

- GROWING UP IN AFRICA

Event: Meeting with volunteers from the Foundation

Location: Your school

Date: November – December 2009

Recipients: Students of classes 0 – 6, secondary schools

Goals:

1.         We are looking for educational institutions which would like to cooperate with our Foundation throughout the 2009/2010 school year and promote the project „Growing up in Africa” in and beyond schools. In June 2010 we will award the most interesting project introduced in this school year! We will post the details of the contest our website by 15 March 2010.

            The number of activities within the project is unlimited.

2.         We are looking for partners for the Ekirooto (dream) project – see PROJECTS. The meeting with us is the first step to establish cooperation.

            The meetings are accompanied by a photo exhibition titled „The Children of Africa” at all levels. In spring 2012 we will organize workshops on children’s rights in Africa in schools cooperating with us.

            The educational institution bears the cost of transportation (we travel by car). The Foundation covers the costs of transportation within Warsaw.

Contact:

Małgorzata Łokaj

e-mail: malgorzata.lokaj@uslyszecafryke.org

Tel.: 728 184 016

FEEL FREE TO JOIN!!!

The topics of the meetings are presented below.

Classes 0-3

TOPIC: AFRICAN CHILDREN.

A CHILD’S WORLD IN FAR-AWAY UGANDA.

Goals:

            - present the beauty of the African continent and at the same time draw attention to the problems it is facing on the example of Uganda (Central-Eastern Africa)

            - show Polish children the every-day life of their Ugandan peers

            - discuss our role in creating a more just world

Content (main points):

            - colorful Africa

            - Uganda – the beating heart of Africa?

            - African peers – what makes them laugh and what makes them cry?

            - what can we learn from them?

            - entering the world of Ugandan children through language, music, dance and objects of every day use brought from Africa

            - this world can be a better place – presenting the Ekirooto (dream) project and the children embraced by the program: Steven, Hussein and Samuel

Aids: the map of Africa, objects brought from Uganda (toys made by Ugandan children, musical instruments, clothes, etc.), the slideshow titled "A child’s world in far-away Uganda", African music.

Classes 4-6

TOPIC: WHAT DO THE EYES OF AFRICAN CHILDREN HOLD?

A CHILD’S WORLD ON THE EQUATOR.

Goals:

            - present the beauty of the African continent and draw attention to its problems on the example of Uganda (Central-Eastern Africa)

            - show Polish children the every-day life of their Ugandan peers

            - discuss our role in creating a more just world

Content (main points):

            - the African continent – its linguistic and cultural diversity

            - Uganda – the heart of the continent

            - entering the world of Ugandan children through language, music, dance and objects of every day use brought from Africa

            - the situation of young Africans on the example of Ugandan children – discussing the issue of the children of the streets

            - this world can be better – presenting the Ekirooto (dream) project and the children embraced by the program: Steven, Hussein and Samuel

Aids: the map of Africa, objects brought from Uganda (toys made by Ugandan children, musical instruments, clothes, etc.), the “Uganda today” photo show, the slideshow titled “What do the Eyes of African Children Hold?”, African music.

Classes I – III secondary school

TOPIC: CHILDHOOD LOST.

The situATION OF CHILDREN IN COUNTRIES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH ON THE EXAMPLE OF UGANDA.

Goals:

            - present the beauty of Africa and the problems it is currently facing

            - overcoming stereotypes concerning our perception of the African continent and its citizens

            - discussing the difficult situation of the youngest Ugandans

            - evoking responsibility for the entire world

Content (main points):

            - Africa – a continent of contrasts

            - Have you ever tried to survive a day for less than one dollar? – statistics on Africa

            - Uganda – the crown jewel of Africa

            - children of the streets and child soldiers – the plight of the youngest Ugandans

            - a fair world - impossible?

            - the Ekirooto (dream) project and the children embraced by the program: Steven, Hussein and Samuel

Aids: the slideshow titled “Childhood Lost”, toys made by Ugandan children, African music.