Year 10 Entries

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Here you can find the year 10 Global Awareness Programme entries.

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Malin Westin 10D

Charity Report

I am going to write a short report on this charity/aid event I did in my previous Dutch school, which I really enjoyed helping out with, and remember it being very fun.
What was the charity helping, and what did we have to do?
I had a teacher who one day brought in all these objects that looked like some kind of aboriginal spears and hunting tools. She started telling us what they were used for and slowly it turned into a presentation about the people who live in Papoa New Guinee. She told us about their lifestyle, their facilities, their homes and their education. It turned out that they didn’t really have their own language untill recently. One of her friends had helped invent a way of writing their language on paper, because the people had only been able to communicate by talking and not by writing. Therefore there was no proper education, because they didn’t teach the kids how to write.
This lady who helped invent a system of writing for the population of Papoa New Guinee came to our class the next time we had this teacher. She showed us pictures of how they lived and how their schools looked like. They didn’t have enough pens, paper and especially they had no books to learn from at all.
So what they told us to do was the following. We had to draw pictures of things (objects) but also activities like hobbies that we had in Holland. They had basically nothing, so they didn’t know what bikes, cars, phones and stuff like that were. Everyone from our class and also from a few other classes drew what they liked to do or what things they liked that they had. Then we all wrote a sentance about the picture we had drawn. The lady who had invented their writing language translated the sentance that everyone wrote into the language they were going to learn in their country.
Then all of our drawings went to some factory, where they got put together into books. The teacher and her friend went all the way to Papoa New Guinee, and gave the books to the kids in the school. This way they could learn about stuff they had never seen or heard of. They would also learn how to read eventually.
The fun thing about this charity organisation I thought was that when the teacher returned from her trip to Papoa New Guinee, she had pictures of the children reading the books, and pictures of them holding the books and smiling. I think those kind of things are really good to do, because we actually got to see what happened to what we did and that we made people happy, and made them move forward. I think this is better than some other organisations where you donate money, but don’t really know where it goes, because you cannot see them get exactly with the money you gave them. I feel that this little event made a difference, because the kids there get to read and learn new things from us who were only like 10 years old or so. They said it was a real improvement to the school and that they were really thankful.

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Leonie Reese, 10d

Charity – Dontations for UNICEF

After I had read that the world children’s day in Germany was coming in a magazine and told my classmates about it, my entire class decided to collect money to donate to UNICEF. Since we have chances and opportunities than others might ever have we wanted to make at least a small change on that day. The girls thought of a choreography, while the boys prepared cakes and other snacks. On the 20th of September (the German children’s day) we finally performed the dance on the Frederik Hendriklaan and the snacks were sold as well. In total we managed to collect 250€ and since we participated at a special project from UNICEF in which all donations were doubled, in the end 500€ were given to help children all over the world. We were very happy about that result of our project.

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Ashley Lynn

I think the most important issue is Enviromental issues.
I think if you focus more on the enviromental issues first that can
help improve the others. Like people issues and political issues.
You can make life easier. For example political issues. Everybody
says how they are going to change the world and fix the
enviroment. And by fixing the enviroment that is one less thing to
worry about and to focus on other things that will help the
economy. And on people issues as if diseases and poverty.
If we help fix enviromental issues that can get rid of half the
diseases in the world because more than half are caused from
hygiene. And connecting that together it can help poverty. If you
fix global issues to help people issues. You get rid of diseases
which means more capital on something else and can help
people that are poor. So i believe the enviroment is the most
important issue.

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By Elisabeth Lismont & Amber Weijers

Global Awareness


www.miniature-earth.com
If the whole world saw this video, a change would be made.

After watching this video, we were speechless. To think that we are living in such good conditions… when others aren’t, made us think.
A point of information that hit us was that 53 out of 100 people struggle to live on $2.00 per day. Here in Holland, we live on a much higher amount. Additional to our food and drink costs, we pay to shower, for daily Internet usage, for mobile phones, and transportation. We think that another point of Global Awareness is Global Warming. We use up far too much energy when we don’t need it. Small things like turning off lights when your not in the room, turning off your computer when your not using it, using the car when public transport is available, add up to Global Warming. If we all started to do our bit to help, we’d get much further in this world. When we watched the video, it makes me wonder how we, as rich as we are, don’t help out. Of course we do our bit for charity here at the ISH, but we believe that people from rich European countries should help out by sponsored events in the country they are trying to help. This would make a start. In October 2007, a member of our families chose to do a cycling tour in Kenya, to raise money to build new a new school for children who are very unfortunate. Thanks to all of the cyclists, the Verkaart group managed to build a beautiful school, where students even lived. They have their own beds, and desks. Still money is being collected to improve the bathroom/toilet areas.
“I was very lucky to be able to go to Kenya to visit and stay for a holiday. However, when we went to visit the school for the opening ceremony, I was very impressed by how the children have chosen to keep their hopes up, even though they have all been through much harder times than what we can imagine. As we arrived in small mini buses, all the children were waving with a huge smile on their face. It was such a nice feeling, and yet a terrible one. It made me realize that we take everything for granted, and what we’d call horrible or say nasty things about, the children in Kenya would appreciate so much.”
We put a lot of things to waste, which we could easily change, or give to Less Economically Developed Countries. When we throw old clothes away, we don’t care about them anymore, but when you think deeply about what you are doing, you might realize that you should give it to a charity, so that others can enjoy the clothes. We get new clothes every so often, when other children in the world don’t get clothes. They get rags or old sheets.
To sum this all up, we have decided to create a motto:
If we don’t give, we don’t deserve to receive.

Money isn’t the only answer, our attention is just as important.

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Vijender Chaubey

In the year 10 assembly we watched a short film about “miniature earth.“ The theme of the assembly was global awareness.
The film showed statistics. They turned the actual population of the Earth, into a small community of a hundred people, keeping the same proportions we have today. The most shocking and surprising statistic to us, was the one which stated that; ‘6 people of the whole community own 59% of the whole community’s wealth.’ We found this one of the most shocking because it was surprising to see that more than 75% of the world’s population just had a average amount of wealth and also that many were poor.
The film basically was trying to convey the message of inequality in our current modern day world. The message is communicated very effectively because usually if the statistics are presented using the whole world’s population, the large numbers don’t mean as much because of their amount, but when they turned the actual population of the Earth into a small village of 100 people it created more impact because it was easier to imagine the amount of people (6) that owned 59% of the worlds wealth.

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Ana Luisa Fonseca

HoPe Project

In year 9 I participated in a fundraising Project for the charity HoPe (Holland, Peru). Our task was to create a fundraising activity that would raise Money that we could then send to the Project Holland Peru.

HoPe is an organisation that takes the Money we raise and invest it into building new schools for students and to employ people in the mountains of Peru. So it doesn’t just give Money to the people, it helps them make their own Money by working. This is why HoPe is a very good charity.

My Group made a fund raising activity involving selling ice cream and brownies. In mentor hour we created a Business plan skating who was in charge of what in the Group and what our Business was all about. We sold ice cream wit chocolate cake. The flavours we had where chocolate, stracciatella and vanilla. We had toppings that included chocolate sauce and sprinkles. In music we made a jingle that would sell our product. My job in the Group was to be the financial manager. I made sure that we used a decent amount of Money so that our profit would still be good. It turned out that our Business made a profit of 101 euros.

I feel that this was a good charity because we also new where our Money went, because one of the representatives of the charity came to our school and showed us a movie about what their projects where and what they planned to do with the Money we collected. It is a very reliable charity and it not only improves the quality of life for the people in Peru but it helps them become independent. They are now working to improve their lives, and this is all thanks to the HoPe charity.

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Sebastian and Joel.

Comment about the “miniature earth “film
If you have a house a fridge and a bed, you are richer than 75% of the rest of the people on earth. We think its most shocking, because that is something that all the people I know have and I always that that’s normal but it’s not.
The film gives the message that there are big differentness between the rich and the poor and the poor people are majority. We think the message of communication is very good because the example of a village with 100 people in it is very good and the facts are very good as well. We believe that the film tries to reach the richer people, who mostly doesn’t even think of those big different between rich and poor. It wants us to try to do something against this poorness.To us the film was very meaningful because it gave us facts that we didn’t even know or think about.