World Food Day

World Food Day provides a useful context for exploring where food comes from, who produces it and why access to nutritious food is not equal. Learners can investigate food systems, farming, trade, climate change and sustainability, while thinking critically about the choices and structures that shape what people eat around the world.

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty offers an opportunity to explore poverty as an issue of rights, inequality and social justice rather than simply income. Learners can consider how poverty affects access to education, housing, food and opportunities, and examine the local and global actions that can contribute to a fairer society.

International Day of Education

International Day of Education is an opportunity to explore education as a human right and its role in building fairer, more peaceful and sustainable societies. Learners can consider inequalities in access to education, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how children and young people can help shape the education they receive.

International Day of Co-operatives

This is a chance to explore how people work together to meet shared needs.

World Population Day

This is a chance to explore how people work together to meet shared needs.

World Day of Social Justice

World Day of Social Justice highlights issues of fairness, equality and human rights.

Power Walk

This activity helps us explore how ‘power’ describes the ability to shape one’s life and one’s environment.

Development Compass Rose

This is a simple, easy-to-remember framework which can provide a focus for work on issues.

Who has all the biscuits?

There is enough food to feed everyone, however, millions of people are still hungry. This activity explores how unequally food is distributed globally. 

Cocoa Clues Mystery

In this activity, pupils work together to solve the mystery of why Afia can now go to school, using a series of clues. Through the activity they learn about the impacts of Fairtrade on a community in Ghana.