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Welcome to the summer issue of Youth Action News.
We hope you’ve enjoyed the start of your success as a Youth Action Group and
are looking forward to the long summer holidays ahead of you. This issue is
dedicated to all the fantastic work you’ve been doing, including a double page
spread of all your pictures and stories on pages 4 and 5. We’re really proud of all
you’ve done so far and even more excited as we know you’re just getting
started…
We hope you’ll be able to continue your group next year and there are lots of ideas on page 7 to help
you expand your group, keep your momentum going and stay involved with Oxfam in the future. As
more groups are formed across the country, we want you to stay at the centre of our work as our
pioneer groups, to inform and inspire other people with everything you’ve been doing. We’ve also
included some excellent books on page 6 to keep your ideas going over the summer (no it’s not
coursework, honest!)
My internship with Oxfam sadly finishes in August so this is the last newsletter from me, but it’s been
fantastic to hear all your stories and I’ll make sure to keep up to date with everything you get up to in
your groups in the future.
Thank you again and enjoy the holidays,
Emily and The Oxfam Youth and Schools Team
Right: Children in On the cover: Crowds
Tanzania wave good- raise their hands
bye as Oxfam leaves during the Big
their school. Moment for Make
Approximately 300 Poverty History at
children benefited Glastonbury 2005.
from Oxfam's school The Big Moment was
meals programme the highlight of the
during a drought in festival, with 150,000
2006, which saw people raising their
attendance rates hands in support.
increase from 30% to
80%. Photo: Toby
Adamson/Oxfam
Photo: Maite
Alvarez/Oxfam
3 Top actions 6 Summer reads
Top actions to see you through until Brilliant books to keep your ideas
September growing through the holidays.
4 Youth in Action 7 Stay involved
2 pages full of your stories, pictures Advice and inspiration for recruiting new
and all the fantastic things you’ve members and keeping your group going
been up to. now and into the future.
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1 It’s summer time…
..and what better way to spend it than getting
inspired, learning more about the issues you are
most passionate about and getting re-energised for
Oxfam
September? supporters at
Using the summer to think about where you want to Glastonbury
take your group will give you the momentum to get 2010, after
getting a ‘FAIR
started again in September. See page 7 for more DEAL’ knuckle
ideas about recruiting new members and staying tattoo. This was
the action for a
involved with Oxfam well into the future. campaign
asking for
people living in
2 Holiday reads poverty to be
treated fairly in
Page 6 includes some inspirational books and the face of
climate change.
novels to help you think about the different topics
you could base your group’s next campaign Photo: Oxfam
around. There are also links to the work Oxfam Festivals
Team/Oxfam
does surrounding the topics explored in each of
these novels, however any reading you do around
the issues you are passionate about will be really
helpful.
3 Mums matter…
We definitely agree with this one, but women
around the world still needlessly die in
pregnancy and childbirth every day. Find out
about Oxfam’s ‘Mums Matter’ campaign for a
powerful issue to take action on in your group:
www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/
health_and_education/mumsmatter
8 year-old Agnes proudly holding her school book. Oxfam’s livelihood
programme has given Agnes the chance to continue her education, where she
is top of her class. Photo: Abbie-Traylor Smith/Oxfam
4 Campaign for Climate Change
The 16th in the series of UN ‘Conference of Parties’
climate talks’ (or ‘COP 16’) will take place in Mexico in
November. Here, world leaders will get together to try
and agree on a deal to act on climate change and
protect the world’s poorest people. This could be a
fantastic event to base you group’s next campaign
around. Learn more about Oxfam’s approach to climate
change and get started at: Joanisa Kamid, 11, appealing to the United Nations to take
action on climate change, which affects her everyday.
www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/issues/climate
change/introduction
Photo: Tom Greenwood/Oxfam
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Two pages of pictures, stories and quotes
from all the fantastic things you’ve been
up to…
“The presentation from Waldegrave and Lady
Eleanor Holles pupils was highly professional and
was a very powerful message of support for global
education. I fully support what the pupils are trying to Above left: Students give presentations to Vince Cable and the crowds.
achieve.” Above right: Vince cable receives a 1 GOAL supporter scarf from pupils.
Vince Cable
Vince goes back to school
As world cup fever descended on the UK in June,
pupils from Waldergrave and Lady Eleanor Holles
schools decided to invite the Business Secretary
and MP for Twickenham, Vince Cable, back to
school to raise awareness of the 1 GOAL campaign.
Pupils made football scarves with messages calling
for global education for all and gave speeches and
presentations to the MP and watching crowds.
The girls spoke passionately about the importance
of global education and why this issue must be
addressed by world leaders. To find out more about
the 1 GOAL campaign, visit:
www.sendmyfriend.org/one-goal
Above: Pupils with a clear message to world leaders.
Bottom right: The girls creating their 1 GOAL supporter scarves.
“I felt completely awed, it was so
amazing. It was a great experience to
be able to talk to someone so
influential in parliament. I think
that if we get together as a team and
we really try hard then we can make
a difference. Each and every one of us
can change this horrific situation
where millions of children are
missing an education and school.”
Amber Syed, 14, who helped write the
presentation given to Vince Cable
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Above: Plekgate Youth Action group with painted faces. Right: A
large crowd gather to watch the talent show on stage.
Pleckgate’s Got Talent
Pleckgate High School Youth Action Group in Blackburn put on
an impressive talent show at their school to support the ONE
GOAL campaign. The group set up stalls and stands to raise
awareness of health and education for all, while captivated
crowds watched their peers perform on stage.
Sir John Lawes Staff Football
Sir John’s Youth Action Group put on an exciting staff
football match and sold Fairtrade goodies to the large
crowd, all for the ONE GOAL campaign.
Above: The Sir John’s Oxfam Youth Action Group at the event.
“I decided to get involved
with the Oxfam Youth
Group because it seemed
like a great opportunity to
Top right: The
do things I was passionate
sell-out Fairtrade about, drive through ideas
stall. Above and
right: The staff
that I had and make a
football match and difference.”
crowds watching
their teachers
Miriam, Sir Johns Oxfam
play. Group
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1 Free? Stories Celebrating Human Rights
Published in the 60th anniversary year of the Declaration of Human Rights, ‘Free?’ is a
collection of short stories, each inspired by a different human right. The authors,
including Michael Morpurgo, Amnesty International and Jacqueline Wilson, explore the
importance of human rights in a really accessible way- making the short stories great to
use in assemblies, group readings or book clubs.
2 The Carbon Diaries, Saci Lloyd
It’s the year 2015 and ‘carbon-rationing’ has been enforced by the UK
government in a drastic bid to halt climate change; as droughts, hurricanes, and
floods change normal life for everyone. Told in the style of a diary, we get an
insight into this eerie and potentially realistic world through the eyes of 17 year-
old Laura Brown, as she tries to make sense of it all. Whilst this book looks at
future UK consequences, climate change is affecting thousands of the world’s
poorest people right now. To learn about the issue in more depth, visit:
www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/climate_change/
3 The Colour Purple, Alice Walker
This powerful novel follows the life of Celie, a young back woman growing up in rural
Georgia in the 1930s. After suffering years of abuse from the men in her life, Celie is
finally supported by women who enable her to leave her past behind and begin a new
life. The issue of violence against women explored in this classic book is also a
theme in Oxfam’s work on empowering women, as women are often hit the hardest
by poverty, climate change and lack of education. To learn about this important issue
in more detail, visit: www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/issues/gender/introduction
4 A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
A thousand splendid suns is the story of two Afghan women set against the
difficult events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years. The novel offers a powerful
insight into female suffering and endurance under the Taliban, written by the
author of the hugely successful book ‘The Kite Runner.’
To find out about Oxfam’s fantastic programme ‘Raising Her Voice’, which is working to
give the world’s poorest women a political voice, visit: http://raisinghervoice.ning.com
5 Message in a bottle, Valérie Zenatti
After a suicide bomber attacks her local Jerusalem cafe, Israeli teenager Tal
Levine decides to reach out by writing a message in a bottle and persuading her
brother, a soldier, to throw it into the Gaza Sea. Against all likelihood, a
Palestinian boy, Naim, finds it and the two begin emailing each other. Despite
the conflict between their two sides, they both quicky realise they have more in
common than they could have ever imagined. Information about Oxfam’s work
in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel can be found here:
www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam_in_action/where_we_work/palterr_israel
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Whether you’re moving up a year or leaving school or college,
there are plenty of ways to stay involved in Oxfam in the
future. From continuing your group to setting up a new one of
your own, read on to keep up your fantastic work…
Recruit new members
Just before the end of term is a great Build on your success
time to get together and plan inventive To make your group even bigger and
ways to get new people on board in better next year, start thinking of ways
September. You could hold an event to take your group further over the
such as a charity fashion show or staff summer, so you’ll be ready to get
football match with a stand to raise started again in September. As more
awareness of your group, put up and more people form Oxfam groups,
posters or write a brief article in your you’ll be the people they look to for
school or college newsletter. Basically, advice and inspiration, as the first ever
anything that gets you noticed and Oxfam groups. Review your work so
makes people feel welcome and far, feel proud of what you’ve achieved
excited about joining. and get planning your next steps…
Oxfam activists promoting Fair Trade.
Photo: Andy Aitchison/Oxfam
Students taking part in a mock COP 16 with Oxfam, 2009. Photo:Oxfam
Stay up to date with Oxfam’s
Start your own group… campaigns
If you’re leaving school this year and No matter what you go onto do in the future, keep
moving on another sixth form or in touch with your regional campaigner and up to
college, you could consider starting up date the campaigns section of Oxfam website:
your own Oxfam Youth Action Group, www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/
to take the campaigning skills you’ve campaign/index
begun to develop much further. If you …and if you’re turning 18, look out for Oxfam
do want to do this, email activist groups in your area. Follow this link to
youthteam@oxfam.org.uk or speak
to your regional contact, who will be
find your nearest one:
happy to help you get started. www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/
campaign/activists/index
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