As part of DE (Development Education) in school this year and to tie in with this years focus theme (World Hunger) the TY’s participated in three workshops over a three week period led by Dorothy Jacob and her daughter Jess who both work with GORTA- Self Help Africa. Workshop 1 – set the scene of the inequality that exists in our world that we all share. Students began to see their own world as part of the problem and part of the solution to Global Inequality. Workshop 2- focused on the lives of rural farming families and the issues that have driven them into a cycle of poverty. Water, land, trees, gender equality, farming and access to seed, trade and markets for their produce were just some of the issues explored. Workshop 3– students gained a deeper understanding about Climate Change and Fairtrade and began to realize what actions they could undertake to make a difference and create a better and fairer world.
