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Schools
USE
THIS TOOLKIT IN THE CLASSROOM!
- Plan
and carry out video dialogues in the classroom. Show video
documentary and engage students in a discussion. Discussion questions
can include:
- What can be done
to encourage children to stay in school and off the streets?
- What would you
change in your school to make it better?
- Organize and mobilize
students
- Organize students
to plan a day to distribute campaign materials.
- Organize a festival
to further inform the community about the Don't Call Me
Street Kid! Campaign.
- Download
campaign materials (i.e. fact sheet, poster, communications
guide) and distribute to other schools.
- Creatively incorporate
campaign ideas into school curricula
- Ask students to
write a poem about the issue.
- Conduct workshops
on the CRC and children's rights.
- Use Internet technology
to investigate local, national and regional NGOs working with
children.
KEEP
CHILDREN IN SCHOOL!
- Be perceptive to
the needs of children and consider their different realities.
- Encourage children
to be participants and contributors in their learning and
development processes.
- Engage children
in learning through creative and alternative techniques.
- Whenever possible,
link art and entertainment to educational contents.
- Provide opportunities
for discovery of cultural heritage, such as creating a museum
or organizing a cultural heritage forum.
- Encourage creativity
and cultural expression through disciplines such as music,
theater and dance.
- Teach useful skills
and allow opportunities for job training. Provide training
for income- generating activities in various sectors (i.e. industry,
public services and the arts).
- Enhance the ability
of the community to participate and contribute within schools.
- Establish partnerships
with NGOs working with kids
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