based on Girl power!
In many parts of the world, including our Peace Corps match village in rural western Africa, girls are unlikely to continue their education. This impacts their health and well-being, and later the health and well-being of their families and communities. We want to make connections and empower them to be healthy, educated women so they can foster vibrant, healthy families and communities. So we have the following challenge: How can we as students in California engage those in our local community and global network to support the ongoing education of girls in our Peace Corps match village in Africa?
As a result of our work, we will develop two things: a community event that includes student-created multi-media presentations and exhibits to share what we have learned with our francophone community in California and to enlist their support for the students' action plan to engage meaningfully with our Peace Corps World Wise Schools match community and increase the education rate of girls there. We also will be preparing a separate multimedia presentation to be disseminated online to the general public, but specifically targeted to organizations that are working in the country to increase the rate of education of girls there and explain how we plan to support their work in the country (exactly how we will support their work will depend on what the students decide to do).
NOTE: If this turns out not to be an issue with the new community with which we will be matched this year, we will examine other francophone countries in Africa, as well as Haiti and Cambodia (a former French colony where French is still an important second language).
Rights of children
Realities that obstruct education of children in central and West Africa.
Working to ensure education for girls: one example
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Les droits des enfants :
Regardez la liste de vidéos. https://vimeo.com/channels/tleodd
Choisissez-en 5 et regardez-les.
Pour les 5, notez :
Affiche pour promouvoir un droit (le droit que vous trouvez le plus important pour garantir la meilleure vie que possible aux enfants) : éduquer les autres et les encourager de faire quelque chose pour aider ces enfants qui vivent dans les situations où ce droit n'est pas respecté.
Have students watch the first video as a class. For the activity where they choose 5 videos, be sure they have technology available (phones with earbuds, or class sets of tablets/chromebooks/computers). Also be sure your school/district doesn't block the video links.
Vidéo : les enfants qui travaillent dans les mines de diamant de la RDC
Recherchez le travail de l'organisme "Toutes à l'école"
After the biographies/profiles of the girls and women in the village arrive, the teacher will prepare a set of profiles for each group of students.
Students will work in groups to read and discuss the bios.
Students will start a wordwall of necessary vocabulary for comprehending the letters and for talking about life in the village.
Students will determine patterns that the letters reveal about the lives of girls and the impact of education or the lack thereof.
Students will determine what new questions they have.
Students will decide how to proceed with this information and what they would like to do.
Students will determine what questions they have for the volunteer.
Students will use comprehensible and appropriate French to ask their questions.
Students will peer edit eachother's questions.
Students will create an online form and input the questions into the form.
If there is no ability to use an online form, create the form on paper and mail it to the contact.
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