The J8 Group Booklet

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ACHIEVING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT

GOALS DEFEATS INJUSTICE AND CONFLICT

Action taken on

Hutchesons’ Grammar School

j 8 group

Alison, Lena, Sarra, Calum & Josh

The Millennium Development Goals(to be achieved by the year 2015)

1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Example: To halve the proportion of people who live on less than $1.25 a day.

2 Achieve universal primary education

Example: To achieve full enrolment in primary education

3 Promote gender equality

Example: To achieve equality in the ratio of girls: boys in education

4 Reduce child mortality

Example: Reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate of under 5 year olds

5 Improve maternal health

Example: Reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality rate

6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Example: Halt the spread of HIV in 15-24 year olds

7 Ensure environmental sustainability

Example: Halve the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation

8 Develop a global partnership for development

Example: Increase the % of trade with no import duty from ELDCs to EMDCs



Background research

internet research

attending

conferences in

Glasgow (Oxfam’s

Action Against

Poverty )and

London (Dying For

Life ) and a seminardiscussing the

national strategy

for the Send My

Sister To School

campaign

interview with representative from Mary’s Meals



e-mail

correspondence

with

representativesof relevant

bodies,

specifically

Christian Aid and

Amnesty

International

exchange ofletters with Anas

Sarwar MP,

member of the

International

Development

Committee

The Action Plan

Year 1 MDGs overall

Year 2 EDUCATION (MDG2)

Year 3 HEALTH & DISEASE (MDG4, MDG5, MDG6)Year 4 GENDER & ENVIRONMENT (MDG3, MDG7, MDG8)

All the above will help to solve extreme poverty (MDG1)

we have campaigned so far for the MDGs overall and universal

education specifically

this year we are concentrating on health and disease

each campaign has three stages:

1. raising awareness

2. persuading the people in power

3. taking direct action



Our MDG Campaigns So Far

1. Raising Awareness

In our school putting posters on walls, even on lunch

trays

giving a presentation at assembly

through a pupil competition we devised

(the S2 Challenge – see next page but two)



In another school persuading the teacher to start a similar

(Shawlands campaign in her school

Academy)

In the wider making a video and putting it on Youtube

community

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrM9vfMSbg&NR=1

and by making a QR code






2. Persuade people in power

We asked pupils to take a petition home, convince their parents of

its importance, both sign it, return it and then we sent them to the

Prime Minister

We then followed this up a few months later by telling them others

things they can do which might make a difference, such as:

- Contacting their local MP

- Writing to multinational companies

- Making up their own petition(see next page for extract)



1. if you only do one thing, do this

Sign Hutchie’s own on-line petition http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/send-my-friend-to-

school.html

Petitions have worked in the past, including our petition last year

2. better would be to: Make up your own petition (go to ...... to find out how to

word it), get friends and family to sign it and post it to your MP. It’s easy to

find out who your MP is and his/her address from the internet:

http://findyourmp.parliament.uk

Our PM meets the leaders of the other 20 most powerful countries in August.He should take our petitions with him and remind them of their promise that by

2015 all children would go to school

3. much better would be: Start your own mini-campaign

- Instead of just asking people to sign your petition, prepare something to

show them why they should support this campaign – posters? powerpoints? a

leaflet?

- Then ask them to spread the word

4. Even better still: write to Primark, Nike and other clothes and shoe

companies, and Coca-Cola and Tesco’s etc who have factories in

Developing Countries

- Ask them whether they help with the education of children in

Developing countries

- But first ask us for the name and address of a company (just e-mail us or

come and see us)

5. Or do some useful research remember finding out

about Tanzania? Not every child in Tanzania goes to school.

Use your research skills to find out more.

You could find out:

- Why some children don’t go to school in Tanzania

- The worst areas in Tanzania for this

- How things are changing – are more kids going to school now? If so, why?

- Anything about education in Tanzania

You could ask the people who know:

- Try an aid agency that operates in Tanzania

- Try writing to a school there

http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/





3. Taking action

We devised a competition for pupils in our partner school in

Nitte, south India to raise awareness of the importance of

education and to take action in their community

2 pupils travelled to India to set up this challenge

7 pupils went back at a later date to monitor progress

We were not amongst these pupils. They were other pupils in

the same group as ourselves.

The challenges were completed in May and collectively the

ten pairs of pupils:- Directly persuaded several parents to enrol their

children for school

- Informed the education officials that parents were not

aware of the benefits their children could receive (eg free

midday meal, free uniforms)

- Persuaded two companies to sponsor children through

school- Ran competitions for other pupils

- Raised awareness of the importance of education in 19

other schools



Our Next MDG Campaigns (health & disease)

(just started this year)

1. Inform people of the issue

persuade other local schools to be involved

persuade teachers and pupils in Nitte, India to be

involved

persuade local celebrities to be involved

Because the focus is mothers and children, all timed for

Mother’s Day

2. Persuade people in power

Contact our local MP who is Scottish Health Minister

Letters and petitions to DFID and multi-national

companies

Join forces with national campaigns

3. Take direct action

Issue Hutchie Challenges to other schools in the

Developing World Our partner school in India is now issuing a Challenge to

another school in India



We have the power

to seriously reduce the number of

conflicts in the world

and to seriously reduce injustice and

unfairness

Support the MDGs

Keep the governments to their promises

PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION

Hutchesons’ Grammar School

j 8 group

Alison, Lena, Sarra, Calum & Josh

Documents

The J8 Group Booklet