The Green Timberwolf

Poverty 2 Power; Action Plan!

Blogged By; Brittany, Rebecca, Emma and Rosalyn

So much has happened in the last few days in Ms. McLeod’s Grade 12 World Issues Class! Many of our groups have been approved by Mr.Pino for our Global Goals project, including us! We are so excited to start exploring and documenting local and global poverty through our project and make a real change in our community as well as globally.  

Local

We decided to get out onto the streets of Angus and Barrie, collecting footage with the goal of making a documentary. This informative mini movie will feature poverty based facts and statistics about communities surrounding us. As well, our goal is to catch footage of the daily hardships those in poverty may face. We hope that this will give an inside perspective on what it could be like to live in poverty and to show just how local poverty is. Some of us plan on visiting organizations such as ‘Out of the Cold Barrie’, ‘Salvation Army’ and even the Angus food bank- just steps outside of our classroom.  With the help of the Nottawasaga Pines Production Crew, we can’t wait to make this idea become a reality as we feel it will really help students, teachers, community members and the online world to have a new perspective of poverty.

Global

We really wanted our Global Actions to reach as far as possible. After lots of brainstorming, we had the idea to sponsor a child who was experiencing severe poverty in a developing country. However, we felt as though this was not doing enough to help people on a large scale. We have decided to sponsor the entire village of Gelan Idero, Uganda… that’s a whole total of 850 families or 4,220 individual people!! The small community is an impoverished area, where more than 98% of families rely on farming for their income and source of food. Our sponsorship will help the community develop sanitation and water systems, create more sustainable jobs and start an education system for children of both genders. We hope that as a school ‘village’, we can welcome the Gelan Idero community as our ‘sister village’, as we can communicate with the locals through a blog! We can’t wait to make a sustainable difference and put an end to poverty in the lives of over 4000 men, women and children! Stay posted for our fundraising ideas!!!