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Save the Children

Gender and Intersecting Inequalities
Resources for teachers

Young Lives, Global Goals: Children Poverty and the MDGs

Through activities, video clips and photocards pupils get an inside view on the lives of eight children from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. Beginning from these children's experiences, the pack examines the UN Millennium Development Goals - a set of targets drawn up by world leaders to reduce poverty, improve education and healthcare, and create a sustainable environment.

Young Lives, Global Goals enables teachers to bring the global dimension into the classroom via a framework for investigating place in key stage three geography, activities that integrate global citizenship with geography and environmental science, and real-life case studies.

The pack contains:

a 152-page activity pack a 40- minute video 16 photocards and an A1 poster.

Available from the Save the Children website.