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“I am very proud and happy to be one of the members of the Media Club. During the past year, I have worked very closely with other young journalists in the club. I have learnt a lot from my friends and from the social work that I have participated in.
“During my time at the Media Club I have been on field trips and witnessed children living in difficult circumstances. This made me more determined to help them with my skills as a young journalist.
“Being a member of the club means that I can improve my writing skills by regularly writing articles. I can also practise organising and facilitating club meetings. But most importantly, I now have more friends with whom I can share my thoughts. I no longer feel timid, shy or embarrassed speaking in front of a large audience. I feel more confident now speaking about my thoughts and points of view.” |
Nguyen Thi Tuong Vi
Vietnam, member of Plan Youth Media Club |
Plan UK’s Development Education unit generates activities to raise awareness, involvement and active participation of people in the UK in the lives and problems of people in developing countries, becoming world citizens and contributing to the protection of the rights of the child worldwide.
Plan UK enters into dialogue and informs diverse UK groups, including supporters, teachers, government and education specialists, about the position of children in poor countries and the various causes of poverty amongst children and about child-centred community development.
In 2005/06 Plan UK said it would
- Develop a new development education website which will act as a portal to access a range of Plan’s development education resources;
- Establish a Development Education Advisory Panel (DEAP) made up of teachers and experts in the field to advise and guide Plan UK’s development education work;
- Explore the possibilities for establishing strategic partnerships with other Plan offices and external organisations to increase Plan’s impact;
- Produce global learning resources to be used interactively in UK schools;
- Facilitate a school’s online discussion forum on Identity, Rights and Responsibilities and produce online educational resources.
During the year
- Developed a new website launched in January 2007 as a portal to Plan's development education resources;
- Initiated dialogue with key education practitioners for the constitution of an advisory panel guiding Plan UK’s development education work;
- Collaborated with 4 European Plan offices for the development of a school linking initiative;
- Facilitated online discussion on Identity, Rights and Responsibilities between children and pupils in the UK and students in some of Plan’s programme countries;
- Produced online education resources based on the students’ online discussion and a report on the learning and achievements of the ‘Identity, Rights and Responsibilities’ project;
- Fostered the development of the Children’s Advisory Panel.
In the future Plan UK will
- Ensure that the development education website is effectively used by a significant number of schools;
- Link schools from the UK and Plan’s programme countries and work with schools in Malawi, Sierra Leone and Kenya and schools in the United Kingdom on a trial linking project;
- Facilitate a development education project involving schools, producing resources to be used as educational materials;
- Produce materials on life in the UK by Plan UK’s Children's Advisory Panel to be circulated to schools in developing countries and Plan supporters.
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