When One Door Closes, Another Opens!

By Kyla, Mady, Sarah, Ethan and Hunter

Today marks our last day of our Global Goals project, and it’s very bitter sweet! Although we’ve done some fantastic things, our group has experienced our fair share of bumps in the road. There are ways that we could have reached our goals differently, but we wouldn’t think to change one minute of it.

One of our speed bumps was staying motivated during the process. This is by far one of the longest and most in depth projects many of us have ever had, so we found ourselves running out of steam quite quickly. We had to change our mindset as far as projects were concern; most are a sprint, but Global Goals was a marathon. Another struggle may have been the amount of outside-the-box thinking that was needed for this project. Many of our group members are university level students, so not necessarily having a set rubric to follow really pushed us outside of our comfort zone. Despite our challenges, we feel that a lot of us rose to the occasion.

Considering the amount of challenges we faced, our group accomplished a lot! We successfully gathered first aid supplies to send to Nicaragua, sold mental health bags to educate our school, and even ran a social media contest to encourage staff and students at Npss to get active!

The cherry on top, however, was the Global Goals Fair. It was fantastic to see so many playing our game and being excited to receive healthy prizes such as fruit or sunflower seeds. Looking back on our accomplishments, all we feel is pride.

In conclusion, although we had some challenges, Global Goals was a great learning experience. Many of us learned more about event planning, time management, and had some fun too! We encourage other schools and classes to use Project based learning in their curriculum, because you learn about yourself as well as your topic.

Thank You To Everyone!  

Blogged by Brandon, Ian, Mackenzie, Matt

Final Day

Today is officially the last day of global goals No Poverty! We would like to thank everyone who has been reading our blogs, as well as staying up to date with our twitter! We would like to give a special thanks to those who have been impacted by are blogs, and twitter and promoted change. Such as donating toys, and spreading awareness! Our goal is the United Nations goal number one for a reason! Poverty needs to be continued to be tackled daily.

Video Released!

Our video is officially done and is uploaded! Stay tuned on our twitter for the link @npssendpoverty.  The video title is Global Goals #1-No Poverty. Are video aims to raise awareness for poverty, as well as educate on one of the many centres that helps with poverty, within our community. We encourage you to share this video! As well as watch it in order to raise awareness for poverty!

Time For The Holidays

Today a member of our group No Poverty, drove to the Christmas Cheer wearhouse in Barrie. unloading all of the toys that everyone had donated, within the school of Nottawasaga Pines! As well as all donations given to the Christmas Cheer foundation. The foundation aims to give parents gifts to give to their children that they can not necessarily afford. Not just anyone can walk in and get gifts. Investigation of the parent’s/guardian background is done. 7 mandatory interviews are also required to ensure these toys are going to a worthy cause. This is a great cause everyone should contribute too. We would like to thank everyone once again who donated to the toy drive!

Wo(men) Sports

By: Kenz & Meg

Although gender equality has come a long way, even with UNESCO recognizing sports and physical activity as a human right in 1978, it still hasn’t come far enough. In America 40% of the people in sports are women, however only 6-8% of the total sports media coverage is devoted to them. And women-only sports stories add up to just 3.5% of all sports stories in the four major US newspapers. According to the Women’s Sports Foundation, male athletes get $179 million more in athletic scholarships each year than females do. Additionally, collegiate institutions spend just 24% of their athletic operating budgets on female sports, as well as just 16% of recruiting budgets and 33% of scholarship budgets on female athletes. Over the years the popularity of women’s sports has grown, unfortunately the media coverage and sponsorship dollars haven’t followed through and gender equality remains an issue. For example, last July’s Women’s World Cup soccer finale was the most watched soccer match. For men and women. In the US nearly 25.4 million viewers were watching these strong women. Yet the players were far less paid than their male peers.  There are 2 million more men than women taking part in sport at least once per week.  0.4% of the total commercial investment in sport goes into women’s sport. Coaches in women’s team sports at college level earn 63 cents for every dollar earned by head Coaches of men’s teams.

What it boils down to is that we, collectively, men and women, need to do more about gender equality. We need to pave the way for our daughters, just as we do our sons. There should be no inequality in sports, in the workplace, or in life. Women and men should be seen as, and treated as, equals in all respects. Gender should not be the thing that defines us or separates us from our fellow athletes.

References

http://athleteassessments.com/gender-equality-debate/

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/8gvwvv/why-women-will-never-beat-men-in-sports

Olden Time Gender Equality

By. Meg & Kenz

In times of kings and queens the King was always seen as higher than the Queen. In today’s society we do not have a King, just the Queen of England. It is thought that this is a positive thing because it shows how powerful a woman can be when they have to stand on their own.  It is also thought that after the Queen passes and her eldest son Charles takes over, him and his wife Camilla will be seen as equal. This is a very positive action because it shows the world that we can be equal and men are no higher than women and vise versa. This is not the first time that we have only had a Queen.  

Our group is very proud that our Queen is seen as a very powerful woman and that she is a prime example of this. A lot of woman look up to her as a role model and a lot of women strive to be as powerful as her.

References

Queen Elizabeth II. (2017, November 13). Retrieved from https://www.biography.com/people/queen-elizabeth-ii-9286165

Its okay to be single

By: Kenz & Meg

The Office of National Statistics in the United Kingdom found in June that 25 percent of men ages 65 to 69 are getting married, while 21 percent of women of the same age are getting married, The Express reported. This age group had the largest increase in married couples among both genders.  "It's interesting that the largest percentage increase in the number of marriages was for older couples, also that the trend for marrying later in life continues to go up," said Marilyn Stowe from Stowe Family Law to The Express. "The cost of living means that couples need to save for longer and therefore as the country emerges out of recession I would expect the total number of marriages will increase again next year." New York Magazine published a chart that looked at how many women and men are married by the time they're 30 years old. The chart asked "how normal is it" for each gender if they're not married by ages 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40. For women, the normality of not being married by age 40 is at 84 percent, while for men it's at 78 percent. At 35, it's 78 percent normal for women not to be married and 71 percent for men. Women also lead men for normality of not being married by ages 30, 25 and 20, the chart showed. In a study released this past Friday, Demographic Research found that women are more likely than men to sidestep marriage when their student debt level is high. Spencer from New York Times said , “Specifically, an increase of $1,000 in student loan debt is associated with a reduction in the odds of first marriage by 2 percent a month among female bachelor degree/ recipients during the first four years after college graduation,".  So basically, student debt only causes women to avoid marriage at first. But eventually things equal out between men and women, the study found.

References :

https://familyshare.com/26286/10-ways-marriage-is-different-for-men-and-women

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/schlepping-through-heartbreak/201406/woman-s-marriageman-s-marriage-two-different-worlds

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/justice-schanfarber/why-women-leave-men-they-_b_8511584.html

The Girl Who Starved To Death

By Dylan, Molly, Maddy and Mickayla

In the village of Karimati Basti, where hunger and poverty are extremely high, in fact there have been 4 awareness documentaries made involving this village by Warles Surin. But as you can see in the picture above, a young girl died of starvation. She was only 11 years old that died september 17, 2017. The story is only making headlines now as it was only a rumour outside of the village till now and people tried to hide the truth saying it was just illness or blame the parents for neglecting their child, but the truth is it was starvation, plain and simple.This is terrible news especially since according to statistics we produce enough food to feed everyone in the world but we decide to waste a full ⅔ of it! We must start to be more thoughtful about what we throw away knowing if we could learn to spare and share, hunger would not be a problem anymore.

Works Cited

Mayberry, Jessica. “One Death, Three Stories About Sickness and Starvation in Jharkhand.” The Wire, 18 Nov. 2017, thewire.in/197238/jharkhand-starvation-death-media-politics/.

Fairness at the Global Goals Fair

Blogged by Zaheela, Kenz, Rachel, Meg, Ayden

Our global goals fair was a huge success! It's was such a great opportunity for our class to educate our school about some of the UN Global goals. We had the chance to educate our peers about gender equality which is Global Goal 5. Gender Equality affects people all over the world regardless of their status and affects people of all genders. We were very motivated to create change as others that visited our booth were very eager to learn and help. We personally believe that the fair gave our group a great chance to raise awareness. We got many questions and alot of support which we are extremely grateful for. It made our group very happy that we were able to help create change for Gender Equality and take actions to solve this issue.

We had a lot of fun cheering and encourage people to come to our booth. We were happy to see the hype and excitement.

Buttons

We sold buttons that we had made in order to rise money for the women's shelter. We personally believe that selling these buttons was the most challenging part of the fair. We were pleased to see that people believed that what we choose to put on our buttons were very meaningful.

Trivia Game

Our booth also included a trivia game. Students enjoyed playing our game. They liked how our questions were challenging and it gave them the opportunity to learn more about Gender Equality in a method that they found fun and interesting. People believed that our questions were challenging, but the purpose of this was to educate our peers and challenge them to learn more about this issue.