Global Justice Ethos
The Global Justice Project has been developed to bring our practice and experience to respond to communities and schools which need support with their diversity agenda to help address issues of racism, bullying, homo-phobia and migration.
Working in partnership with teachers and community members, the project aims to raise awareness of the wider global context by exposing the issues of immediate locales and then reflecting upon other cultures. By exploring the causes of inequality and injustice we encourage an increased understanding of diversity and promote tolerance.
Instead of poisoning our own food and water and stealing from the future, we can learn how important the planet is to each and every one of us and what we can do as groups and as individuals to support and sustain it. Instead of seeing ourselves as removed from these global problems, we can recognise and understand how they relate directly to us, and how facing them can directly improve our schools and communities and how they are not beyond our control.
· 1% of the global wealth is shared out between 50% of the world’s population
· For every $1 sent in aid to developing countries $10 are sent back as debt repayments
· If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, a bed to sleep in and a roof over your head, you are richer than 75% of the world
· If we don’t take action very soon we could unleash runaway global warming that will lead to social, economic and environmental devastation worldwide
· It would cost $28 billion per year to provide basic education, water, health and nutrition to all developing countries, we spend $780 billion per year on the military worldwide.
· The ways in which we live, communicate, produce and consume are not working and the fates of everyone and everything in the world are inseparable