W.I.S. students make a difference
Today, students
from Room 2, Waimea Intermediate went to the Richmond Mall at lunch time, to
raise awareness and gather donations to help fight child labour. They had been
studying children’s rights in class this term, and noticed that children
involved in child labour are having their rights taken away from them. Children
in child labour have no chance of an education, they are beaten and forced to
work in factories often to pay off their families’ debts. Everyday a lot of
children’s lives are at risk because of the harmful and dangerous jobs they
have to do. Just recently, they read about a fireworks factory explosion in
India, which killed lots of children working there. In order to stop this
happening again, Room 2 decided to take action and try to help those 250
million kids involved in child labour. They made wallets from juice boxes, and
sold them for $3 as well as having a coin trail for donations. They raised $176
and they will donate it to www.freethechildren.org which is a website started by a
12-year-old boy who also wanted to break the cycle of child labour. Room 2
students would like to thank all of the people who donated.
Written by
Room 2 Students
Check out the photos from our day.
Write a comment about your reaction to our Social Action Trip to the Mall
I was so proud of how well you all did spreading the word!!
Well when we first got there it felt a bit weird but then when we started it got a bit funner. Some people would love to find out more and came over but then some others don't even look at us at all. But still i think we got the message through to lots of people.
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It was quite hard to get the people's attention because most of them just walked past without even looking. Even if they didn't donate, I'm sure most of them still got our message. I think we raised a pretty good amount of money too.
ReplyDelete-Jaeger
Once you got one person to buy a wallet you really got into it.
ReplyDeleteBEN
It was weird at first, because quite alot of people didnt want to donate. But the good thing is that im sure we raised alot of awarness because the pamphlets were all gone by the end. Greer
ReplyDeleteTOP EFFORT Rm 2. Excellent work on the wallets. Give yourselves a pat on the back for standing up in public and pushing such an important subject. Well Done. Debbie T
ReplyDeleteI did this last year and i found it pretty scary right at the start but at the end you got used to it and it wasn't scary at all.It helped after you got one person to donate or buy a wallet. Well done on raising awarness and all that money!
ReplyDeleteAnna
Room 2 last year :)
I was really shy and sold about 2 wallets but some people you would not expect sold 5-10 wallets. So it was fun seeing everyone have a go.
ReplyDeleteTash
Man that looked cool i wish i was there. ryan
ReplyDeleteHaha im in it once |: Brayden
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ReplyDeleteI thought we would make more money, but at least we earnt somthing! Mitchell
ReplyDeleteI thought we would make more money too, but at least we raised over $100! JORDY
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ReplyDeleteThat trip was fun and i felt good after i had sold 2 wallets.
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