What schools can do to celebrate World Refugee Day
Hold a special class on refugee issues and incorporate the topic into your regular lesson plans. You could:
- Invite a speaker
- borrow a video from UNHCR
- use our resources for teachers to stimulate class discussion
Run an essay or art competition on a refugee theme. Or encourage your students to enter the UNHCR Writing Competition in 2005.
Host a fundraising event for Australia for UNHCR or have gold coin donation day at school to support UNHCR’s work helping 17 million refugees around the world.
Order WRD materials from UNHCR to display at school or in your community, click here for details.
Ask students and teachers to wear a blue ribbon or something in blue to mark WRD on 20 June.
Please let us know what you plan to organise so we can share it with other schools. Email us at aulcapi@unhcr.ch
To download our schools flyer click here (148KB)
How schools can explore refugee issues
A
number of Australian high schools have developed special
projects to explore and discuss refugee issues. They
have drawn their inspiration from various sources.
Getting streetwise about refugees
The Other Side comic by Streetwise Communications provided teachers with a framework to address the causes of racism in their schools, and inspiration for students to develop scripts and present their work to other students.
To find out more click here.
Books
Worlds
Turned Upside Down by Rochelle Ball (stories
of refugee and migrant children in contemporary
Australia) was the inspiration for a play produced
and performed by students at Orana School in
Canberra called Seeking Refuge:a fight
for freedom.
Please let us know about your refugee education project so we can share it with other schools.
Email details of your project to aulcapi@unhcr.ch
If you would like to return to view our other World Refugee Day (WRD) pages please select from the following list:
WRD page click here
WRD Portraits of Courage click here
WRD Events page click here
WRD campaign material click here
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