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Ways of working

Connecting, creating, challenging

North South Projects promotes global citizenship education in schools and youth groups through the creation of educational resources such as videos, DVDs, CDs, websites and supporting teaching materials. These resources use real-life case studies of young people from the South – the developing world – with whom young people in the UK can connect with and relate to.

Through training, North South Projects also informs and educates about the global dimension, raising awareness of local-global connections in everyday life. We promote the skills, values and attitudes that help encourage young people to become socially critical thinkers, actively participate in global issues, and explore the inter-connected global society to which we all belong.

Focusing on development education

North South Projects seeks to raise awareness of inequalities between the North and South, demonstrate different global perspectives, and encourage empathy, understanding, active participation, and the development of more balanced viewpoints.

Through powerful images and positive testimonies from the South, young people can investigate relationships between communities, cultures and the environment in which their peers live. In this way, they can explore situations that are more complex and sensitive than initially perceived, facilitate their understanding of globalisation and its effects on southern societies, and begin to challenge the often negative media images of poverty, disease and disaster in the South.

Through this work, North South Projects gives young people the opportunity to learn from the reality of children's lives in the South, find out the problems that they face, and discover the positive ways in which they overcome these disadvantages.

Find out more about...

Oxfam's Global Citizenship website

The global dimension on Global Dimension

Development education from the Development Education Association

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