You can't buy anything with a penny! (ppt)

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• This lesson highlights the amazing achievements
  of young people who have campaigned for a cause
  they care about passionately.

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"You can't buy anything with a Penny!"
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• But ten year old Stacey Hillman
• knew that you could do a lot with a
• pile of pennies!
• Being an animal lover she was very
• upset to hear that police dogs were
• being shot and killed on duty.

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• It didnt seem fair to Stacey that police dogs
  werent given the same protection as the police
  officers they worked with.

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• She found out that bullet proof vests for the
  dogs would cost a little over 300 each.
• Six years later her organisation has raised
  150,000 - enough money to buy 404 canine bullet
  proof vests!

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• Stacey is one of many children who have had the
  courage to start a charity for a cause they felt
  was important.

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• When she was just eleven years old Annie Wignall
  started
• The Care Bags Foundation.

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• She was touched by stories of children having to
  flee their homes in crisis situations, leaving
  their possessions behind them.

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• Annie began filling special Care Bags with
  essential and comforting items suitable for every
  age, from babies to eighteen year olds.

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• Now Annie is director of a nationally recognised
  charity with its own headquarters.

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• She oversees the efforts of the many volunteers
  who provide thousands of bags to children all
  over the world.

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• Nine year old Melissa Poe wrote to President
  Bush (Senior) about the need to clean up the
  environment.

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• Her letter was pasted on billboards all over
  America.
• Her club has mushroomed from 6 to 300,000
  members!

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• To date FACE members (Kids For A Clean
  Environment) have planted over a million trees,
  many of them as part of backyard wildlife
  habitats.

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• FACE members created the largest environmental
  flag measuring 100 by 200 to symbolise the
  concerns of young people for their environment.

This is a picture of Melissa representing the
Spirit of Youth as part of the Olympic torch
relay
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• Six year old Canadian Ryan Hreljac was shocked
  to hear that many people in the world have no
  clean water.
• He decided to do
• something about it.
• It took Ryan 4 months to
• raise 70 by doing household
• chores

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• Ryan knew the importance of team working. He got
  his brothers Jordan and Keegan to help him write
  letters and create audio-visual aids for his
  speeches, while he was busy talking to other
  charities.

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• To date the Ryans Well Foundation has created
  201 wells in 10 countries, and brought clean
  water to about 352,323 people!

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• Brave Alex Scott had suffered from
• cancer since she was one year old.
• When she was four she
• decided to help her
• doctors find a cure
• for her disease.

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• She set up a stall selling lemonade on her
• front lawn.

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• Alex inspired many people over the remaining
  four years of her short life.
• They followed her example, and in 2004 and 2005
  over 4000 Alexs Lemonade Stand events were held
  to raise money to fight childhood cancer one cup
  at a time

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• Although Alex is no longer with us, as of May
  2006, her campaign had raised over 6 million.

Alexs Lemonade Stand continues to fund
researchers who seek to improve the treatment of
cancer, and prolong the lives of sick children.
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• A special award has been named in Alexs memory.
  
• Every year the Alex Scott Butterfly Award is
  presented to a child who has shown extraordinary
  conscience, care and character in helping others.

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• Could YOU start a campaign like these young
  people have done?
• Once you have an idea, use the Thinking Hats
  Tool.

Click here
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Other interested people
school, clubs, neighbourhood,
Helpers, Friends, Family,
You
email
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Glossary

• Refugee a person who has had to leave their
  country
• Symbolise stand for, represent
• Campaign a drive, or movement, to make
  something happen
• Research a study, investigation
• Conscience sense of right and wrong

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Activities to complete this lesson include
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• group discussion
• exploring attitudes in the media to refugees
• creating an organisation and planning how to
  address a social or environmental problem

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learning activities.
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Useful Web Links

• http//www.ryanswell.ca/ - build, educate,
  motivate Ryans Well
• http//www.justgive.org/be-inspired/inspiring-kids
  /pennies-police-dogs.jsp - Stacey Hillmans
  pennies protect police dogs
• http//www.kidsface.org/pages/aclubofsix.html -
  Melissa Poe and the story of FACE the Worlds
  largest youth environmental organisation
• http//www.alexslemonade.org/lemonade_stand.php -
  Alex Scott raising money for cancer research with
  the lemonade stand
• http//www.idealist.org/kt/index.html -and now
  its your turn! A site dedicated to children
  taking action sharing tips and showcasing
  children who have set up their own charitable
  organisations
• http//www.kidscanmakeadifference.org/ -
  inspiring children to end hunger, poverty and
  injustice around the World
• https//www.justgive.org/be-inspired/inspiring-kid
  s/index.jsp - more children making a difference

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More Useful Web Links

• http//news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4290000/n
  ewsid_4293200/4293218.stm - Laura has done lots
  of wacky things for charity, read her story
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4710000/n
  ewsid_4710300/4710366.stm - Who starts a charity?
  a guide to charities and the story behind some
  of the Worlds largest charities
• http//www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/youthact/p
  rojects.php?p231 sick and tired of crime and
  the lack of safe play areas on their local estate
  a group of young people in North London set up a
  project to clean up their estate, read how they
  are making a difference.
• http//www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/youthact/p
  rojects.php?p232 bullying affects the lives of
  approx. 30,000 children per year in the U.K
  this group of young people in London set up a
  project to reduce bullying and support victims of
  bullying in their school
• http//www.g-nation.co.uk/news/news.cfm?contentid
  367 Will and his friends were devastated when
  the council closed their skate park, they took
  action to campaign and make a difference in their
  community.