Team: Furies - Champions Of Justice

Welcome my Fiery Friends! Your team (of about 6-8 students) will

design an art work about the plight of children, AND
create a puppet play, song, commercial or pantomime about

one Right of the Child (Number 9 - Child Labor). You will then use the information you have gathered to share ideas with members from the other class teams.

First of all, your team must have one of the following roles:

Writer - your job is to create the script for the puppet play; or, the theme for the song; or the words for the commercial or pantomime.

Designer - your job is to create the backdrop for the puppet play; or, commercial or pantomime. If your group decides to create a song, you need to design the CD cover for it.

Performers - your job is to covert the script into a creative piece of work!

Ideas Contributor/Director – you need to be creative and think of ideas and direct the performance.

Process:

Compare your ideas of what the Rights of the Child mean with those of the other members of your group.

Then you must go to the The United Nations' Rights of the Child page and
investigate Number 9. Read it as a group, discuss what it means
and rewrite it in your own words onto your poster (you will need to have a
dictionary handy or use the online dictionary and encyclopaedia.)

Use the internet resources below to identify examples of where your "Rights of the Child" are being violated and add these to your performance. These resources are written for adults and may be challenging to read so use the online dictionary and encyclopaedia.

Uncover how and why your human right was violated and who are/were the victims. child_labour.jpg (5269 bytes)

Resources

International Labor Organisation: Child Labour

World Vision Australia: Child Labour around the World

Global Movement for Children: Stop harming and exploiting children

Find an example of where your Right of the Child is being protected or people are doing something positive about this Right.

Resources

The Kids Campaign to Build A School for Iqbal

Freedom Heroes - Iqbal

Free the Children International

ILO: Youth Employment Network

Uncover where and how it is happening.

Return to Plan of Attack to continue your mission.

"We cannot waste our precious children. Not another one, not another day. It is long past time for us to act on their behalf."

Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel