Help reduce poverty and inequalities

 

Educational Materials Project - collection boxes for pens, pencils, rubbers etc will be placed at Sclaters, Town Barbers and the Co-operative (both Kirkwall stores).

School Uniforms/Sandals Project - £20 will purchase a uniform and sandals per pupil.

Tech (phones, iPad, tablets, laptops) /Wi-Fi Project - donations are being sought from the local community. Devices must be reverted to factory settings. Sclaters, Town Barbers and the Co-operative stores in Kirkwall will be collection points.

Widows Empowerment Project -£30 sets up a widow in business helping to reduce inequalities and poverty. And onwards help to pay school fees for their children.

Climate Awareness project - helping to save the planet/reducing poverty and inequalities as a result.

“If we want to make the world a better place, it is up to us to make it happen” – KGS pupil Craig Morris.

 

S2 pupils from Kirkwall Grammar School are reaching out to the wider community in Orkney to help reduce poverty and inequality for counterparts in schools in Pakistan and Nepal - as part of a unique global education programme, Connecting Classrooms.

Three businesses in the county – Sclaters, Town Barbers and the Co-operative stores in Kirkwall - have offered to assist as collecting points for educational materials and tech such as phones, iPads, tablets and laptops and now the pupils are asking folk in Orkney for donations. If any other businesses are interested in participating, they are asked to contact Kirkwall Grammar School.

 

Theo Ogbhemhe KGS Religious Moral and Philosophical Studies Teacher explained that they have been learning about several of the programme’s “Global Goals”.

 

“We have really enjoyed approaching these issues from a social justice perspective - from the perspective of fairness as it manifests in society- fairness in education, healthcare, employment, housing, and more).

 

“My S2 classes have come to a decision on the projects to carry out; practical solutions to continue to make the Goals happen, in order to help improve how we all live our lives, and make the world a fairer and safer place for everyone to live in. Everyone deserves to live with the basic things they need – fresh water, clean air, food, a quality education, healthcare.

'We believe in everyone's power to do good, and a fair thing as we know, is ALWAYS a pretty thing'. Theo