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Goal 10 - Reduced InequalitiesYour Silhouette Is Mine
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Big Idea
To promote a positive message that we can step into the shoes of refugees by trying to understand them, help them open up and feel their situation.
It is connected with the concept that the most vulnerable ones are more often excluded and left behind. How can we build empathy and understanding with those we may consider as different to ourselves and begin to work together to improve society for everyone?
It is connected with the concept that the most vulnerable ones are more often excluded and left behind. How can we build empathy and understanding with those we may consider as different to ourselves and begin to work together to improve society for everyone?
Type of Activity:
This activity uses the lesson to explore the Sustainable Development Goal 10, through walking in someone else's shoes .
The activity relies on the ability of identifying yourself with vulnerable people such as refugees. The aim of it is to help participants understand and appreciate the perspectives of others, by using refugees in the form of silhouettes, and to enable participants to interact with their peers by recognizing the diversity of needs, thoughts, feelings, presenting them within the group.
The activity relies on the ability of identifying yourself with vulnerable people such as refugees. The aim of it is to help participants understand and appreciate the perspectives of others, by using refugees in the form of silhouettes, and to enable participants to interact with their peers by recognizing the diversity of needs, thoughts, feelings, presenting them within the group.
Who is it for?
Ages 11 to 18.
What do I need?
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Computer with access to internet, meditative/relaxation music, sheets of paper, pencils or markers.
Presentation - Your Silhouette is Mine (background information for teachers). |
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How long does it take?
1 x 45 minutes.
Introduction
The students are given sheets of paper, on which they draw the human silhouette that represents a refugee. They are then asked to write information on the silhouettes, such as thoughts on the head, feelings on the heart, needs on the stomach. desires to do something on hands and the activities you enjoy on the feet.
What next
Where did the ideas of thoughts, feelings, needs, desires and activities come from? Explain that they come from all of us, no matter whether we are refugees or not, so there is much more to unite us than divide us.
Finally
Revisit students' various thoughts, feelings, needs, desires and activities and match them with the SDGs related to refugees. Then mention the fact that there are now more than 100 million refugees worldwide and that we need to work together, if we want to stop this number from growing.
Find out more
Refugee Week assemblies - assembliesforall.org.uk/events/refugee-week/
Those that we throw away are diamonds: conference presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StrqTxzkEGE (58 mins)
Those that we throw away are diamonds: conference presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StrqTxzkEGE (58 mins)
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