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Sustainable Solutions

By examining photographs, this activity helps students use their critical thinking skills to identify the positive aspects and strengths of rural communities in Vietnam, Ghana and Grenada, a Caribbean Island. This process encourages students to look beyond the often portrayed negative images about developing countries. Students then look at how those strengths could be used to improve the lives of the people in the community. In Part 2 of this lesson, students reflect on their own strengths as a class and as individuals. Students then generate ideas of how they could use those strengths to improve the lives of people in their school and beyond.

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For the Sustainable Solutions Lesson, click on the above tab to view the lesson, student sheets in English and French and extra teaching resources.

Click here to download the Sustainable Solutions Lesson Package and save the zip folder to your desktop.To ensure the lesson links to the student sheets, extract all the files by either clicking extract all files under Folder tasks or by right clicking on the saved folder. This will change the zip folder to a regular folder.

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Beyond disaster relief

“Something that my classmates and I agreed was interesting was that CHF doesn’t just throw money or supplies at people in need, you also teach them how to become self-sufficient and not only that, but you give them a sense of pride and worth. Every single person on this planet, rich or poor, deserves that….Thank you for reminding all of us of that.”

Grade 11 student