DECALOGUE: ANE AND UNAI

Ane Etxarri and I have done a Decalogue for the project about poverty and social exclusion.

The aim of this Decalogue is to encourage people to help to improve this situation (poverty and social exclusion). We came up with some ideas and then we have chosen the best ones. As it is a Decalogue, we put 10 ideas.

We have dicided the work in two parts: Ane, thought of five ideas and I thought of other five. Not only do we took some ideas about our classmates but also we surfed the internet, where we found out opinions of a lot od people. Based on that, we have taken advantage of it and built up other concepts.

Below, you will find these ten ideas listed above with the name of "WAYS TO IMPROVE".


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EUROPE IN MY CITY

Where do I see Europe in my country?
Well, there are many places which could be related with Europe, however, I think that this place is the one which fits the best:

This sign is located on Mount Igueldo where everyone can see it, it reminds us that in 2016 San Sebastian will be the cultural city of Europe: DSS2016EU ( Donostia-San Sebastian 2016 European Union)

WAYS TO IMPROVE

3. Donate
You can donate food, money, clothing, toiletry items, old furniture, toys and magazines.
4. Volunteer
You can volunteer with kids, families, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, women, and the mentally ill; in shelters, soup kitchens, community centers, after school programs, and employment centers. You can teach literacy, resume development, job training courses, ESL, computer class, coach sports, serve food, and provide counseling.
- See more at: http://www.jewishinseattle.org/programs-initiatives/focus-fight/resources/12-ways-fight-poverty#sthash.erxBFXWV.dpuf

3. Donate
You can donate food, money, clothing, toiletry items, old furniture, toys and magazines.
4. Volunteer
You can volunteer with kids, families, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, women, and the mentally ill; in shelters, soup kitchens, community centers, after school programs, and employment centers. You can teach literacy, resume development, job training courses, ESL, computer class, coach sports, serve food, and provide counseling.
- See more at: http://www.jewishinseattle.org/programs-initiatives/focus-fight/resources/12-ways-fight-poverty#sthash.erxBFXWV.dpuf

3. Donate
You can donate food, money, clothing, toiletry items, old furniture, toys and magazines.
4. Volunteer
You can volunteer with kids, families, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, women, and the mentally ill; in shelters, soup kitchens, community centers, after school programs, and employment centers. You can teach literacy, resume development, job training courses, ESL, computer class, coach sports, serve food, and provide counseling.
- See more at: http://www.jewishinseattle.org/programs-initiatives/focus-fight/resources/12-ways-fight-poverty#sthash.erxBFXWV.dpuf

 1. DONATE
They should make a little effort and encourage people to help poor people by donating things that they don't use any more; such us, toys, old clothes, furnitures or a bit of money...

2. VOLUNTEER
They can also find volunteers to help kids, families, the homeless, soup kitchens, community centers...

  3. ORGANIZE A CAMPAING
There are a number of different local and national campaings that people can join to help conbat poverty, as the one we have prepared.

4. ORGANIZE A RALLY
A rally is a great way to raise awareness about homelessness in your comunity. A large gathering of people shows solidarity for a cause and is a grat way to get the attention of the media, businesses...

5. WRITE ARTICLES FOR THE MEDIA
An article to the local and national newspapers about homelessness in our community is a grat way to spread the word, and to personalize the matter with statistics and facts that hit close to home. So that they would educate others.

6. PUT UP ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE CITIZENS
If you want to educate your fellow students, try getting approval to hang posters with facts and statistics about homelessness and poverty around your school's campus and adding ideas for ways to take action.

7. ANYONE MUST DISCRIMINATE
 It is also essential not to discriminate those who are at risk of poverty. The society tends to be afraid of homeless who are sleeping in the street and don't have the chance to have a shower or eat something everyday. However, instead of leaving them behind we should take action.

8. MAKE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE SITUATION & HELP
They should raise the awareness of people about how critical the society's situation is nowadays. There is a huge number of people in need who should be helped. So, in order to give an end to this detrimental situation, taking part in NGOs would be undoubtedly a great idea. We can all volunteer and try to emphasize with them.

9. BUILD REFUGES
To build refuges for evicted people and in general for poor people. 

10.POLITICIAN CONTRIBUTION
Politicians should increase the help that poor people receive by increasing the taxes of rich people. Morover, they ought to change the law of evictions. If a family is evicted they must leave them living in their house for a while.

6. Organize a Rally
A rally is great way to raise awareness about homelessness in your community. A large gathering of people shows solidarity for a cause, and is a great way to get the attention of the media, businesses, local legislature, and other concerned community members. - See more at: http://www.jewishinseattle.org/programs-initiatives/focus-fight/resources/12-ways-fight-poverty#sthash.erxBFXWV.dpuf

3. Donate
You can donate food, money, clothing, toiletry items, old furniture, toys and magazines.
4. Volunteer
You can volunteer with kids, families, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, women, and the mentally ill; in shelters, soup kitchens, community centers, after school programs, and employment centers. You can teach literacy, resume development, job training courses, ESL, computer class, coach sports, serve food, and provide counseling.
- See more at: http://www.jewishinseattle.org/programs-initiatives/focus-fight/resources/12-ways-fight-poverty#sthash.erxBFXWV.dpuf

What I do to help?

Actually, I do not take part in any NGO to help poor people, but when my school prepares a food collect, I bring food for them. Then, I also donate toys and clothes.

OXFAM

Hi bloggers!

here is a link to Oxfam, an NGO that fights against the poverty, really interesting ! check out!

http://www.oxfam.org/es

Poster

Hi bloggers! here is a poster that we made with the fotowall program to complain about the poverty and social exclusion:

EUROPEAN UNION CRISIS

 Eurozone crisis 

The Eurozone crisis resulted from a combination of complex factors, including the globalisation of finance.

BBC News - In graphics: Eurozone crisis

In this new you have a very good graph and explanation about it.

http://www.eurozone.europa.eu/euro-area/topics/the-eus-response-to-the-crisis/

In response to the crisis the member states, the euro area and the European Union as a whole have taken a broad range of measures to ensure financial stability, support growth and employment and improve economic governance.

The crisis in European Union

Crisis is the situation of a complex system (family, economy, society) when the system functions poorly, an immediate decision is necessary, but the causes of the dysfunction are not known.

And as we know Spain is one of the most affected one, the unemployed rate  increases gradually... 

The other day we were speaking about this topic in the class, and we started with it because we are going to do a project as you could see later.

In the first days of the 2nd term we were discusing about the extension, the population, the DGP and the energy of the countries of the world: our class was the world, the tables and chairs were the continents, we were the population, the money that each continent have were fotocopies of dolars $ and the energy that each continet consume were biscuits that we ate later!!!! ;P

Here you have a table wich shows all the information:

%	Extension	Population	DGP	Energy
Asia	30	60	38	8
Africa	20	14,5	4	3
North- america	16	8	24	50
South-America	12	6	7	10
Europa	7	11	26	27
Oceania	6	0,5	1	2

GREENPEACE

GREENPEACE

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The objective of the environmental NGO is to protect and defend the environment, speaking in different parts of the world where there are committed terrorist attacks against Nature. Greenpeace runs campaigns to stop climate change, protect biodiversity, for the non-use of GMOs, reduce pollution, end the use of nuclear energy and weapons. Besides protecting forests and natural landscapes.

The environmental movement was born in 1971 when a group of American anti-nuclear activists

formed a small organization called Do not Make a Wave Committee (the Committee a Tsunami not provoke) to prevent the United States carried out a second nuclear test on Amchitka Archipelago (Alaska).

Although there were many people involved in one way or another in the various initial stages, the key people from the outset were Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe, and Bob Hunter. The first board is formed by Stowe, Bohlen and future Olympic medalist yachtsman Paul Côté.

Greenpeace is present in five continents, but with little presence in Africa, limited to working with social organizations and local communities affected by pollution from toxic waste, over-fishing, illegal logging and climate change.

Do you know that what you are wearing at the moment has been

made by really toxic materials? How does it affect to the enviroment? In fact, Greenpeace has started to contribuit to stop the production of clothing with these materials in 2014: British luxury brand Burberry made a commitment to eliminate the use of hazardous chemicals from its supply chain by 1 January 2020. Burberry's move comes after just two weeks of people-powered campaigning on the brand's social media channels, reaching an audience of millions, while Greenpeace volunteers held protests at stores from Beijing to Mexico City. Burberry joins 18 big brands like Zara, Valentino and H&M who have committed to Detox their clothes and manufacturing processes.

AMAZONE

The Amazon is a vast and majestic rainforest teeming with an estimated quarter of all known land species. The jaguar, the pink river dolphin, the sloth, the world's largest flower, a monkey the size of a toothbrush and a spider the size of a baseball are just a few of the species that we know about - there are many more yet to be discovered.

It is also home to over 20 million people including hundreds of indigenous peoples, some of which have never been contacted by the ‘outside world’.
And finally, the Amazon stores 80 to 120 billion tonnes of carbon, helping to stabilise the planet's climate.

However, we are destroying it with deforestation...

POLAR OCEANS

The Arctic and the Antarctic, two of the greatest wilderness areas on Earth with ecosystems vital to the functioning of our planet, are under assault from the impacts of rapidly accelerating climate change, industrialization, and the unchecked consumption of our planet's resources.

The poles are indicators of the planet's health and provide early warning that we are compromising the Earth´s ability to sustain life as we know it.  It is already too late to avoid profound negative changes at the poles, but we can limit the damage by establishing boundaries that stop the commercial fishing fleets and the oil and gas industries from plundering and polluting these already damaged ecosystems.

Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.

 

 GREENPEACE

7 BILLION & COUNTING

Here you have a grafh which explais how does the population growed in the last years amd how it will continiou. Nowadays, we're more than seven billion people and we continiou growing.

Mindmap

GLOBALIZATION: International Products

During this days we have been talking about the globalization, and the global extention of some products, such as food, clothes and machines marks. Indeed, I've talked about the good and bad sides of making those products before. Furthermore, here you have more photographs:

PANASONIC (Japan)

LG GROUP (South Korea)

SONY (Japan)

SAMSUNG (South Korea)

HEINZ (USA)

HEINEKEN (the neederlands)

NOCILLA (Spain)

 

NESQUIK (USA) / NESTLE (Switzerland)

HERSCHEL (USA)

PULL&BEAR (Spain)

DIESEL (Italy)

VANS(California, USA)

INSIDE (Spain)

GLOBALIZATION

Globalization (or globalisation) is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.

The globalization has many advantages, but behind those advantages are more bad sides that most people ignore; for instance, if you want to make a factory, in your country you can't because of the strict environmental laws and if you make it in a Third World country is cheaper and easier to make it. However, in that country workers are under age and are paid with the minimun salary or worther, they are slaves; and those kind of things.

In my opinion the most important aspect of the globalization is the comunication, which hasn't have any disadvantage. Here you have a photo of a well known mobilephone mark using the internet:

KOREA WAR

We have done a web about the corean war wich includes a film and information about them, see it and you will enjoy it:

JOINT SECURITY AREA