The equality and fairness challenge
Helping out with reaching goal number ten can also be as simple as obtaining the mentality of equality and fairness. Here is a list of challenges that give you different amounts of points. Draw a similar table to the one down below to keep a track of your accomplishments. If you get 100 points you can contact the foundation to receive a small prize.
| Challenge | Fill in (if needed) | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Check your own closet and ask others in your family if they have any belongings that they don’t need anymore. 10 points per item, fill in the different items in the box to the right. | 20 p/article | |
| Share your lunch with someone who doesn’t have a lunch | 30 p | |
| Visit this website: https://www.malala.org/girls-education and find out how many girls in the world that are out of school. | 10 p | |
| Find out how many different languages you can speak in your class in total. | 20 p | |
| Ask your parents if they have ever moved, and if so, why. | 10 p | |
| Learn to greet someone in your country's sign language. | 15 p | |
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Excercises to do in the classroom
Reborn
Did you know that the richest one percent of the world have more wealth than the rest of the population combined? Maybe you yourself are among that one percent. Then you have won the worlds best lottery! What if you were to take the risk of being reborn again? How different would your life be? You could be born in a different country, a different family, maybe you would have been born without the same abilities, maybe you wouldn’t be reborn as the same gender. Goal number 10 is about empathy and trying to understand other people's living conditions. In a classroom everyone will write five characteristics/diversities that they identify with (e.g. gender, height, eyesight, hearing ability, citizenship age). Write it on small pieces of paper and put them in a bowl.
How to:
The teacher adds notes with these (or similar) characteristics on them:
- Lives in 1 room flat
- Has 7 siblings
- Works as cleaning personnel
- Sells newspapers in the street
- Has a broken leg
- Can't read
- Parents unemployed
- Has asthma
- Can't swim
- Has diabetes
- Parents are rich
In a smaller bowl, write notes with these countries:
- Oslo, Norway
- New York, USA
- The Dadaab refugee complex, Kenya
- Dharvi, India
Everyone pick three characteristics from the large bowl. One student picks a note from the small bowl In groups of 3-4 the students discuss what their newborn character needs, and what they can get from their surroundings in the place that was picked. Then the class will discuss together; did your character manage well? How would you feel if this was your life? What can we do to make it equal for everyone? Put all the notes back and do it again with a different country this time!
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Iam, I am Not
This exercise is about uncovering the truth behind stereotypes, and tearing apart prejudices and discrimination. It can be done with both a whole class and in smaller groups.
How to:
Each participant folds a piece of paper in half to create two separate columns. In the first column, they write “I Am”. In the second column, they write “I Am Not”. In between these two columns, write the word “But”. The final phrase will read “I am _____, but I am not _____.” Participants fill in the first blank with a common identifier, such as their gender, race, religion, or age, and the second with a common stereotype about that group which is not true of them (whether the stereotype is positive or negative). Clear up all queations before starting. Everyone should write at least 5 statements each. Put these pieces of paper back into the bowl and everyone will be able to read out one note each. Afterward the Participants can share their thoughts about the exercise and maybe share if they learned anything new.
