Helping Haiti - Kids are Global Citizens
The crisis in Haiti is overwhelming in scale. We are all concerned about it. Even children feel the pain of those suffering. In the face of that anguish, we all want to do something to help.
We have created an opportunity within our residency program at Trickster, to encourage school children to get involved in the reconstruction process in Haiti. By choosing "Kids are Global Citizens" as a residency theme, schools can provide a concrete way to both help the situation in Haiti, develop compassion and help their students gain a sense of belonging to the larger world around them.
We are thinking that the project will involve classes contacting charitites and Non Government Organizations (NGO's) to learn about their work in Haiti, possibly supporting that work in whatever way they can, and then creating a show about the work and their increased understanding of being a responsible citizen of the world.
The NGO's would likely range from the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Haitian Health Foundation, Healing Hands for Haiti ,Flying Doctors, C.A.R.E., Habitat For Humanity, Food for the Poor to name just a few. We also hope to be able to connect Canadian schools with schools in Haiti.
Do you want your school to be part of this Project?
You can participate in a number of ways.
1. Make use of the links that we will be providing, in order to support the NGO of your choice in the reconstruction of Haiti.
2. Link your school to a school in Haiti. By the start of the 2010-11 school year we will be able to help you find a suitable school and make the contact.
2. Make your Trickster residency theme: Helping Haiti - Kids are Global Citizens. We'll help you connect to the NGO's, document your participation on our web site, and help you create a Trickster Residency show based on this theme. We'll support you in a number of ways to show you care through the medium of the Arts.
3. Create art about your experience of being a global citizen. You could write stories, create songs, paint pictures or make theatre. If you do, we'll help you share what you create with other schools.
Benefits
1. Be part of the solution in Haiti.
2. Develop the idea of global citizenship in your students.
3. Learn how the people of the world help each other through the work of non -governmental-organizations ( NGO'S).
4. Learn about Haitian culture.
5. Develop compassion and leadership in your students.
6. Students will learn that many parts of the world live with only basic human needs like clean water and shelter. (and sometimes not even those)
7. Your students will be able to connect to students in Haiti.
8. Your efforts will inspire other schools and the surrounding community to keep supporting the reconstruction work in Haiti.
9. Learn about the resourcefulness of the Haitian people who are dealing with this crisis.
10. Provides a wonderful opportunity for project based learning involving all subject areas.
11. Develop your artistic skills and share them with the world.
New Ideas?
We are still developing this program. If you see another way that we can assist schools to create art, help Haiti and develop compassion and a global spirit - give us a call.
You can call - David - at 288-9393, or reach him by email.
