Young Lives, Global Goals: Children, poverty and the UN Millennium Development Goals

A video and activity pack for key stage 3 geography, citizenship and environmental studies, looking at what it means to be poor in four countries - Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.

February, 2005

£30.00

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1841871001

This publication can be ordered from our distributor, NBN International.

Through activities, video clips and photocards pupils get an inside view on the lives of eight children from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.

Beginning from these children's experiences, the pack examines the UN Millennium Development Goals - a set of targets drawn up by world leaders to reduce poverty, improve education and healthcare, and create a sustainable environment.

Young Lives, Global Goals enables teachers to bring the global dimension into the classroom via a framework for investigating place in key stage three geography, activities that integrate global citizenship with geography and environmental science, and real-life case studies.

The pack contains:

  • a 152-page activity pack
  • a 40- minute video
  • 16 photocards
  • and an A1 poster