Global Education

This section is designed to help you  increase your understanding of  some of the issues that children in developing countries face every day. Extreme poverty is a global issue because:

1. The issues that individuals face every day also affect their families, communities, countries, neighbouring countries and the rest of the world.
2. Many of these issues are the same across all developing countries, for example: lack of access to food, education, clean water, healthcare.

The following links and resources will help guide you to gain a deeper understanding of the issues behind poverty and injustice: 

ONLINE GAMES 

Transport yourself to another world to experience the realities of child labour, an earthquake disaster and conflict zones through World Vision’s interactive simulation experiences. Click on a link below to play– – see  how you would react in these situations.

	Eliminate Child Labour Topic: Child Labour Step into the shoes of a social worker with the goal of eliminating child labour in a community. Play the game.
	Frontline Topic: Conflict and refugees Become a Rapid Response Team Leader and coordinate your team working at the frontline to help innocent victims of war. Play the game.
	EQ Topic: Aid response to a natural disaster (earthquake) Take up the challenge of being a World Vision field officer – delivering relief after an earthquake while also raising funds to do so. Play the game.

TOPIC SHEETS (online PDF resources)

Listed alphabetically, these are a great starting point for investigating a variety of topics relating to World Vision’s work. Go to World Vision topic sheets.

EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY

The World Vision Global Education team provide education resources to bring the world to you. For more information, go to the Education section of the World Vision website.

Advocacy is essentially the process of raising awareness about an issue, pointing out gaps in response to it and encouraging changes to be made to fill these gaps. Its about getting people fired up to make a difference. Go to the World Vision Advocacy section of the World Vision website for more information.

Related links

More World Vision interactive resources, such as Internet Connections.