The Great
African Scandal - Service Learning Opportunities
 Competency: Provide
concrete examples to help the poor in Africa live with
dignity.
Linked Core Abilities:
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Take responsibility for your actions and choices
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Do your share as a good citizen in your school, community, country and the
world.
Click here for
the LESSON PLAN
As a follow-up to the lesson, Dave Dionisi discusses first-hand experiences
successfully breaking the cycle of poverty in Africa.
For example:
1. Create a
documentary to educate and show how we as consumers can make a difference.
2. Start a
micro-business to help people become independent. Adopt an entire village and
raise $1,320 to stock it with goats and chickens.
3. Educate
students in the United States about the root causes of economic injustice with
an essay contest. Each essay contest winner will receive a picture of a child
that the Teach Peace Foundation supporters will send to school as a gift in
their name.
Sponsor a
disabled child to be in the Special Ambassadors program and raise
$1,400 to
provide for the child.
4. Partner with
non-profits to deliver life-changing aid. For example obtains seeds from
Seeds to
the World and coordinate with Teach Peace Foundation staff to add an
agricultural component to the existing livestock program.
5. Organize
medical professionals to deliver medical care. This requires finding at least
one doctor and one nurse who will pay for their travel to Liberia, Africa and working with
Teach Peace Foundation team members to coordinate care delivery.
6. Run a
scholarship drive to enable children in Liberia to attend school. On average $100 can send
one child to elementary school and $200 can send a child to high school for a
year.
7. Research
other non-government organizations to find one helping people and get involved.
Then report
back to Teach Peace what you have learned from your experience and how you will
take this learning into your future to benefit others.
8. Become a
Teach Peace Foundation Student Ambassador by educating friends and family about
our acts of kindness programs that not only change lives, but can save lives
too.
Provide Teach Peace with a summary of the actions you took and how your actions
have changed your outlook or behavior.
9. Write a
report on the Teach Peace Foundation livestock program to share with
non-government organizations and governments.
10.
Brainstorm ways we can perform daily acts of
kindness without having to spend money or dramatically change our behaviors. Add
three of these acts of kindness into your daily routine for a week, observe the
affect on your life and share with Teach Peace staff what you have learned from
this experience.
The focus of
this follow-up session is to help students explore and create solutions not only
for Africa, but anywhere in the world students wish to help people live with
dignity.
What is next?
Students have the opportunity to continue to work with the Teach Peace
Foundation to develop and implement their service learning projects.
Click here for information
about the next trip to West Africa.
For
more information, please contact us at contact@teachpeace.com
or call 530-554-7061.
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