Video conference with Ms.Moon Sharma

 

On Friday morning, we went to a classroom both groups together. The Emaús members prepared a video conference with an Indian woman called Ms.Moon Sharma by Skype. We had some questions to ask her. She answered most of them but as we didn't have much time some questions weren't answered. At first, it was difficult to understand what she was saying because her accent was different and she spoke too fast. However, we managed to understand the main point of what she said.


Ms.Moon Sharma is a member of TARA.

Thanks to the video conference and the members of Emaús that came to our school, we know the basics of the Fair Trade.

Manos Unidas: "La salud, derecho de todos. ¡Actúa!"

We have done a poster that is related to an NGO called Manos Unidas.  

Manos Unidas is the Association of the Catholic Church in Spain for support, promotion and development of the Third World. It, in turn, an NGO for Development (NGO) volunteers, Catholic and secular.

Here it is the poster:

World affair: Malnutrition in Ethiopia

We have been working in a presentation about world affairs and we chose to do it about the malnutrition in Ethiopia. This idea came up because we wanted to know more about this topic. Now, after searching a lot of information on the Internet about the hunger, we are aware of all the problems that brings hunger to those African countries.

Here we are going to add the link of the blog where the presentation of malnutrition in Ethiopia is.

We hope you like it.

Emaús in Luberri

Last Tuesday some members of Emaús came to school and talked about fair trade and its benefits.

Emmaús is an international charitable movement founded in Paris in 1949 by the Catholic priest Abbé Pierre to combat poverty and homelessness. Since 1971 regional and national initiatives have been grouped under a parent organization, Emmaús International, now run by Jean Rousseau, representing 310 groups in 38 countries, offering a range of charitable services.

From our point of view, all that they told us was sensible and we understood everything at once. Now, we have a wider knowledge about fair trade and we are going to be more careful about it.

European Union Citizenship

As set out in the Maastricht Treaty, any national of a Member State is a citizen of the Union. The aim of European citizenship is to strengthen and consolidate European identity by greater involvement of the citizens in the Community integration process. Thanks to the single market, citizens enjoy a series of general rights in various areas such as the free movement of goods and services, consumer protection and public health, equal opportunities and treatment, access to jobs and social protection. There are four categories of specific provisions and rights attached to citizenship of the European Union:

1. Freedom of movement and residence throughout the Union.
2. The right to vote and stand as a candidate in municipal elections and in elections to the European Parliament in the state where he/she resides. 
3. Protection by the diplomatic and consular authorities of any Member State where the State of which the person is a national is not represented in a non-member country. 
4. The right to petition the European Parliament and apply to the Ombudsman.

The teacher also asked us to invent two new rights about this subject. These are the rigths that we have thought about:

1. The right to be allowed to watch all channels shown in the EU to learn more about other cultures and languages.
2. The right to take secondary education in other countries of the EU without any conveniences.