The MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT Challenges

Our biggest and longest challenge is coming up - the MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT Challenge!

This challenge will take place over the course of the next eight weeks, each week being a week focusing on each of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals!

This coming week's challenge will be focusing on the first goal: end poverty and hunger.
Try to focus on keeping your food intake low and think of those who need food and drink and what you would do in their situation.

The first challenge will begin this coming Sunday (4th of September), and will end with yet another Saturday 4 Somalia the following Saturday.


Keep on checking the blog daily/weekly for our following MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT Challenges......................!

Cooking 4 a Cause!

Four special friends of mine have been giving their classmates a great example of how to make a difference.
Ella, Emily, Holly and Iris are all a part of our Vinnies group at school. But what they did on Monday was amazing.
Monday morning at 8:15 I come to school to find over 150 cupcakes with amazing and cool icing covering them. At recess, they sold nearly every last one of the cupcakes. The money that was raised is being sent to Somalia for those in the drought. What these girls are doing is amazing and I just thought that it would be appropriate to show the public how my friends are making a difference.

The girls were inspired by the Tasmanian Centre For Global Learning and the MAD(Making A Difference) Ambassadors of Tasmania.

Challenges to remember...

Thanks to everyone that participated in our Saturday for Somalia fast, because it is a truly bis commitment to give up your days worth of food.

Just a few things to remember:

Our annual Odd Sock Wednesday will be held for the second time tomorrow, so pull out your old, hole-y socks and wear them with pride!

Also, as I type this now, I am watching the news, and I can see that the Somalian famine is not getting any better, so we're going to give "Saturday 4 Somalia" another go!


And well done to our MAD (Making A Difference) Ambassadors for getting an awesome article in the Mercury today!

Saturday 4 Somalia

As you all would have heard over the past few weeks, there has been a terrible famine throughout countries such as Somalia in Africa recently. So when we hear about all of this, we wonder what we can do. We could maybe send food or money over to their countries, or donate to charity. But probably the best thing we can do in these situations is help spread the word that these people need help, and a way of doing that can be giving up some of our goods.

       So for our next challenge, we are going to try our hardest to give up our food this saturday for those in Somalia. From the hours of 6-6, we will (with pride) try our hardest to be like those starving in Africa.




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And don't forget to wear your odd socks with pride for our annual "Odd Socks Wednesday" next wednesday!

The fantastic GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT!

The GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT is a worldwide project that looks at the eight millennium development goals and helps spread the word about the poverty situation in our world.

Part of their project is "1.4 BILLION REASONS", an awesome and inspiring talk on how we, as ordinary people can make a difference for world-from buying fair-trade products, to supporting a school in a remote country-we can make the world a happy place.

  Please check out their site and check all their stuff out, because what those guys are doing is awesome!

http://www.globalpovertyproject.com/

Water 4 A Week!

Our second challenge to change: Water for a Week!

We, in our modern society tend to underestimate the value of water.
If we have the chance to drink this liquid gold, we just shrug and ask how much the Fanta costs.

Well, now comes up a new challenge: From Monday 11th of July-Friday the 15th, you can try your very hardest to drink water!

Sounds too easy?

Well then we'll make it a little more difficult!
You can not drink anything else!
No cordials, no fruit juices, no artificial glucose free low-diet sports juices, no soft drinks, and no milk!

THE EASY OPTION: If you can't handle the idea, it can be simplified!
You may have milk on your cereal, because having water on your cereal would just be gross!

Thanks everyone for supporting us for our very first week, and thanks for participating in odd socks day!

Fair Trade Chocolate!

Do you know why buying Cadbury's Dairy Milk is better than buying Tim Tams?

Sure they have less fat and everything, but when you buy your foods and goods, do you look out for the Fair Trade logo?

If a certain product, like Cadbury's Dairy Milk, has the logo on their wrapper, that can assure you that that certain product has not been produced or made unfairly, and that the workers who produced the cocoa beans in this example, have been paid a fair wage and not been exploited.

So next time you're out at the shops and are gonna buy some chocolate, why not buy Dairy Milk instead of Kinder or Nestle, and by doing that, you can help people in other countries have a better life!

For more info, visit: http://www.fta.org.au/