No poverty

Students explore the spread of wealth/poverty in the school neighbourhood and key services provided by NGO’s and the government.
Students explore the manifestoes/pledges/plans of local political parties represented in the town council and analyse (1) the likely consequences of these positions on poverty in the neighbourhood and (2) the role of the government, NGO’s and individual responsibility in these.Students set out different futures without poverty and consider routes to achieving these asking questions like ‘What would happen if we ….?’
Students reflect on the outcomes of this process, supported by the opinions of local formal and informal leaders (religious, cultural, business, etc.).
Based on the outcomes of the discussions, students write individual or groups plans for the area entitled ‘Getting rid of poverty from the neighbourhood’
The plans are presented and discussed.

(For the Netherlands a useful start point is here.).

Students work in groups to research and analyse, using data, different area’s around the world/in their country/region with different wealth/ poverty levels.

Discuss, using multi-perspective background (e.g. social, political, economic, cultural and ecological) as input, possible causes of these differences. 

Analyse connections between these perspectives.

Write up the report and use it as a starting point for discussions with local authorities, social workers and cultural leaders about the situation in the school’s neighbourhood: do they recognize the team output and in what way are they working on improvement, against the background of the targets and indicators of SDG1?

Seek contact with a school in a different social area and work on an exchange of ideas and people; and seek how these schools can support each other.

Background reading Piketty, Le Capital au XXIe siècle, Paris 2013 and Atkinson, Inequality, London 2015