Caritas in Adelaide

Education

Education for Social Justice

Caritas Australia can offer materials for primary and secondary schools as they learn about and participate in social justice and development programs; eg , PowerPoint presentations, OHP slides, liturgical materials, interactive material and much more, as well as links to other useful sites
The Global Education Advisor is available for planning and resourcing units of work which focus on many of the key ideas in the South Australian RE Framework
Input for staff development days is also available

Be Green… Be Just… Be More… the Be More Challenge is coming… Be ready!

Clich here to find out about the BE MORE challenge!!

Educational Resources

OzSpirit

Caritas Australia's free e-magazine, OzSpirit, this month focuses on the UN International Days of Significance in December .

To learn more about this and other social justice issues in Australia and around the world, take a look at OzSpirit. It is available at www.ozspirit.com or through the Caritas Australia web site, www.caritas.org.au where you can subscribe on-line for free.

For other useful resources, use the links below

www.bemore.org.au

www.makepovertyhistory.com.au

Teaching and Learning Resources

Darfur

Caritas is working with ACT (Action by Churches Together) in Darfur, where millions of displaced persons have experienced conflict, loss, trauma and extreme hardship, following years of war and terror.

* Watch the film “Darfur by Darfurians” (9mins) click here

1. Locate Darfur – a region in Sudan – on a map.

2. Outline the major difficulties that the displaced persons, particularly the children, must face.

3. Explain the ways in which Caritas and ACT are working with their partners in Darfur towards peace and security. You could consider the following headings.

Housing
Health
Food and water
Education
Trauma

4. How do you think these activities could be seen as “peace-building”?

* To learn more about the situation in Darfur, the following sites will be useful:

Surviving in Darfur - Aisha's story click here

Jonathon Ngor - Sudanese Refugee click here