I met with my human rights group at school today. For those of you that don't know, 10 December this year marks the UN sponsored International Human Rights day. As a society my students are planning to do something to mark this. The Debate Club is holding a debate on that evening on a human rights theme; the issue will be torture. Students from that group are planning that event.
My society is holding a bake sale after last lesson on the Monday to sell baked yummies that they will spend their afternoon making. They will then donate the money the bake sale makes to a human rights themed charity. We were planning (roughly) to do something on the theme of asylum seekers but after the news this week they have changed their minds. They want to raise money for, and awareness of, the people of Palestine in order to counter the bias contained in the information our students are receiving from the British media. Many of these students were in Israel last year and saw first hand what life in the West Bank communties can be like. I have to say I'm a little bit proud right now!
Any suggestions of charities that focus on the condition of the people living in Gaza and the West Bank more generally and that don't have any dodgy connections would be gratefully received...
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