My choices make a difference
Topics: globally connection, celebration
Your child aged 8-14 is invited to join us in our monthly program, Growing Big Things. This month we will be watching a short episodic documentary, Sweatshop, to learn about the garment industry in Cambodia and to reflect on how we view other countries.
We will then take part in a clothes swap and find out how we can support the workers of our favourite brands.
Topics: globally connected, fast fashion, how to make ethical choices, learning from other cultures, reflecting on experiences to grow in self awareness.
Learning Goals:
Participants will:
Learn more about the garment industry in Cambodia
Learn about where their clothes are made
Be equipped to make good choices about their shopping.
Share their clothes with friends
Learning Objectives:
Overarching narrative: Our choices in Australia is connected to others and we can make good choices.
Spiritual reflection: Looking at Isaiah 58 and Justice for workers in the Old Testament/ Torah.
Worldview activity: My choices affects others
Resilience activity: I can listen and learn from others -reflections on what they are watching.
Agency Activity: I can make choices - looking at their shopping choices.
About the program
Growing Big Things introduces participants to different justice issues that are facing our society and equips them with the skills and knowledge they need to make an age-appropriate difference. Using games, simulation activities, excursions, cultural learning experiences, times of reflection and times of practical advocacy, we hope to introduce them not only to ideas but to practical ways that they can be a positive influence on the world. The program will be a fun way to learn these things while spending time with their friends. At the heart of the program, we believe that change can only be made when we love others well and work “with others” instead of trying to give to or seek justice “for others.”
The program will be organised and facilitated by Stacie from the Walk Humbly Initiative in conjunction with volunteers from the Holy Innocent’s Anglican church parish and others who have been involved with the Walk Humbly Initiative courses. All leaders have undergone child safeguarding checks and training and that they will abide by all the rules and guidelines of the Anglican Faithful service code of conduct at all times.
The leaders of this program are from Christian backgrounds and the Christian values of justice and charity frame our responses to poverty and charity. In response to this, there will be short times of Christian reflective content throughout the program including journaling, imaginative retellings of bible stories, quiet contemplation in nature, meditating on Indigenous Christian artwork, times of silence, explorations of what the Bible has to say about issues of justice and kindness, and spoken/read prayers/poems. Your child will be invited to participate in these activities and invited to share their point of view. However, there is no expectation that you or your child hold a Christian belief or faith, and this is not an ‘evangelistic’ program - that is, it does not aim to change the beliefs of any participants about religion or faith.