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Inspire young people to raise awareness about Child Labour in your country - The SCREAM methodology

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:59:00 EDT

Supporting Children's Rights through Education, Arts and the Media (SCREAM - Stop Child Labour! is a unique methodology using images of child labour and visualisations to invoke feelings and refelections about child labour. Young people become strongly identified with the issues and thus become galvanised to take action. They then are given a chance to express themselves through creating works of art, theatre shows, composing music, or through publishing research, articles or poems.

These works of art thus become a way of advocating to fight against the worst forms of child labour. Young people end up informed, satisfied in being able to express themselves, deeply involved, and feeling empowered that they made a difference. In turn, they grow up to be adults sensitised to issues of global concern, as ending the worst forms of child labour (a topic which is not often focused on) is crucial to ending the cycle of poverty and lies the heart of many social problems addressed by the MDGs.

Please help us to spread the use of this unique and highly effective methodology, and use it with youth groups, and in schools of your neighbourhood. SCREAM especially needs to be spread in India, where committed partners to run the program have not yet been found.

Please see to access the comprehensive learning materials
http://learning.itcilo.org/ilo/ipec/scream/pack_en/education_pack3.html

SCREAM (supported by ILO/IPEC) has been running for almost 6 years and has taken place all around the world. See the organisational profile resource section for examples of work by children in schools using the SCREAM methodology, as well as www.12to12.org, a recently launched Community Portal for network action against child labour.

Please contact lay@ilo.org or colombini@ilo.org to receive the education pack and other materials in hardcopy in your language and to ask for any further support and training in using the education pack.

Suzuki Prelude for the World Day Against Child Labour

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:21:00 EDT

Censored Information Revealed

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:45:00 EST

Who was the Old man?

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:02:00 EST

I came across this story recently, and I think it carries a very important message, and I would like to share it with you all :)
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http://www.quirkynomads.com/mp3/121605.mp3

One morning in December 2005, podcaster (online audio reporter) Sage Tyrtle was surprised to see an old man pushing by Toronto rush hour subway commuters who were labouring up a steep flight of stairs. Moving very quickly, the old man poked fun at everyone, saying: “Move on now, move out of my way. I’m an old man – I’m getting up the stairs faster than you!”
Once seated on the subway, the old man cheerfully chatted about how uptight people from Toronto were, and that “you gotta go to Vancouver where everybody says ‘Hi’. In Vancouver, everyone’s relaxed. In fact I’m going right now to get me a couple of beers to help me wake up”.
The commuters exploded in laughter, said Ms Tyrtle, then everyone listened carefully to what he had to say. He explained that a little alcohol (“medicine”) is good for you, but too much makes you sick. He explained that Elvis Presley died young because his doctor gave him medicine and he overdid it. “Forty years old. I’m 70, you see? Shoulda lived to be 110, Elvis Presley, with all that money. Whap bop alloobop, whop bam boom,” he sang.
Everyone laughed again. The train lurched and Ms Tyrtle started to fall, but very quickly the man behind her caught her – something she’d never experienced in Toronto.
The old man went on to chide the audience about getting his teaching for free, because he was usually very expensive. “You look on TV, you’ll see me. You will know who I am. This is not my real face.” At the College Street stop he said: “I don’t go to college any more – I graduated! I’m a professor now. But I don’t teach, I prophesize. Oh, what is that? I never use that word myself. It’s new to me. That’s a big word, prophesize.”
Getting off the subway, the old man started singing: “Kansas City here I come. They got some pretty ladies, got to get me one,” adding, “I want more than one – I’m not satisfied with one lady. I gotta have more than one. I got an old lady, and a young lady. How do you like that? That’s not bad.” He started to leave the train. “Ok. Bye bye. I’ll miss you!” he chimed. Many said goodbye back. He sang the tune ‘Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think’, and called: “Bye bye, folks! Put an egg in your shoe and beat it!”
Ms Tyrtle ended her podcast by saying that after the doors had closed one woman said: “Well, that put a smile on everyone’s face!” Thinking about the experience herself, she commented: “It felt like that smile had somehow stretched to include the entire city, so that the normally taciturn commuters were suddenly talking to each other, laughing and grinning, for no reason at all.”

The podcast can be heard at www.quirkynomads.com/mp3/121605.mp3. In the last few seconds, the original recording is played of the ‘old man’s voice as he leaves the subway.

What is Inspiration?

Wed, 05 May 2004 12:33:00 EDT

What is inspiration? How do you inspire other people? What makes a person motivated? What is the best way to bring out of them their potential? I have been noticing the way that my teachers handle me and my reactions to them. I think that when you have a student or are in a position to help someone forward, it’s about giving them space to express who they are, and their thoughts and passions. You need to show that you are open to where they want to go, without constraining them to what you think they should be following. It is of course a balance… You need to be able to look inside that person to see where they are at, what level of help they want.. It’s very hard to do that, but so many people forget to even think about that, and its frustrating for that person on the receiving end.. the potential for learning becomes substantially limited. Inspiring people also is about showing your own enthusiasm for whatever the subject is, that is also very important. It has to be coupled with allowing that person space to discover for themselves and then supporting them. In this way the creative spark is maintained.. With TIG, we know that we want young people to feel encouraged, and to believe in them and their boundless capabilities… but worries about running everything properly can get in the way of allowing people to feel free in their expression, so we should be careful about that. There needs to be a sense of ownership (by this I mean making an idea your own, as well, even if it was someone elses before) of projects… otherwise people will feel uninspired… or I will anyway. Do others out there work in the same way?
Hmm… there’s a similar relationship with the World Bank and ‘developing’ countries... it goes haywire because there is too much imposing of interests and judgements on others. How to relate to each other in this world, that is the question… Well at least we can turn around and change our relationship with the people around us so we don’t follow the pattern. Things would REALLY change then .. :) :)

Success and being Important

Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:24:00 EDT

I have a huge challenge ahead of me with all this work I have to do at university now. I want to do well, but its so hard to tailor it to what they want from you.. But at the same time I am strangely relaxed (I sometimes get very stressed). It has to be put in to perspective of life in general - life is a beautiful delicate thing... its difficult to explain. These sorts of things really aren’t the most important in life.. you have to make your own mind up about that, instead of what society tells you. I want to do this degree so I can use my knowledge to help with some pressing issues in the world, but I can only do my best. If I am afraid its because I want something else, the feeling of success etc.
I was reading an article about illusion - about wanting to draw attention to oneself once you get in to power, (or before) and then that detracts focus from any good work you are trying to do. And thinking you are more important or greater than other people is an illusion, and seeing it in yourself is the most difficult thing. What do people think about that?

hope on the horizon

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 13:58:00 EST

It looks as if TIGUK is on its way to becoming a reality. I hope we can make it absolutely amazing!! A group of us met up recently to decide on what we want to do and how we can move forward. The main ideas involve providing a greater platform for people to have their say in government, helping with local IT clubs, mentorship, using student unions to get to more young people, providing workhops and a TIG café serving as a place for info and networking, IT, huge board games and fair trade chocolate (yay!) which I personally am very excited about, but it might be too ambitious. I don’t want to let myself get too excited because there are niggling worries that it might not work probably from my previous experience a year or so ago when I tried to set it up. I tried really hard in all the ways I could think of to find other people to do it with me (i.e not just helping), putting adverts in publications, attending lots of conferences and so on. But at least I made some good friends and contacts along the way.
Sometimes effort really isn’t enough, everything has to be in the right place for it to work maybe… the right people for the engine to work have to come along. It looks they have now, and if you are reading this I was very glad to meet you all! Thanks especially to Luke for his can-do, hardworking attitude.

hope on the horizon

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 13:54:00 EST

It looks as if TIGUK is on its way to becoming a reality. I hope we can make it absolutely amazing!! A group of us met up recently to decide on what we want to do and how we can move forward. The main ideas involve providing a greater platform for people to have their say in government, helping with local IT clubs, mentorship, using student unions to get to more young people, providing workhops and a TIG café serving as a place for info and networking, IT, huge board games and fair trade chocolate (yay!) which I personally am very excited about, but it might be too ambitious. I don’t want to let myself get too excited because i have niggling worries that it might not work out probably from my previous experience a year or so ago when I tried to set it up. I tried really hard in all the ways I could think of to find other people to do it with me (i.e not just helping), putting adverts in publications, attending lots of conferences and so on. But at least I made some good friends and contacts along the way.
Sometimes effort really isn’t enough, everything has to be in the right place for it to work maybe… the right people for the engine to work have to come along. It looks they have now, and if you are reading this I was very glad to meet you all! Thanks especially to Luke for his can-do hardworking attitude.

Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:32:00 EST

First Update

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:18:00 EDT

Ok.. my first update, after a long time of not doing one! What to say? There are so many things to talk about, .. I wish that my perceptions as I go about life could just be written down straight away somewhere, I forget about what they were exactly quite quickly.. I have been reluctant to write updates because I always feel like I can never accurately say what’s really going on, which I would want to do... I stopped writing a diary when I was about 14/15 because of that.. , and you put yourself up for a lot of judgements by other people on this kind of things..

So what should I choose to say, and what should I cut out? :)

I have been sitting here all day not doing very much of what i’m supposed to be doing.. it seems like that often to me!

some recent thoughts... Where is my life going? Will it be filled with little worries and struggles, as seems to be sometimes, all through my life? What is it I want to achieve? I read somewhere, that many of us spend all of our lives trying to get to that point so we can say we are a great person about ourselves. :) hmmm... it seems a bit silly to me when it’s said like that..