Raising Standards through Development Awareness (click for more information) is a major project running until 2005 aiming to show how schools can increase levels of achievement in pupils as a result of the learning process which leads to 'Development Awareness' or a better understanding of the way the world works and the lives of people from different cultures.

Curriculum for Cultural Diversity is one year pilot project beginning in May 2003 which will work with three schools in Stockton on Tees LEA with the aim of exploring the issues of Cultural Diversity, offering resources and ideas for curriculum development and introducing the schools to community groups whose members can open our eyes to the lives of the people from different cultures living in on our doorstep.

Global Energy Champions is a project working with out of school childcare facilities in Redcar and Cleveland. At present these are Dots and Spots at Skelton Junior School and Saltburn Primary School Out of School Club. The project involves children exploring issues relating to their own energy consumption and to global sustainable development.

Promoting the Global Dimension through Development Education Resources is a three year project running until October 2006. It supports secondary school libraries with the provision of development education resources and advice regarding their use. At the moment the resources are in West Redcar Community School.

Global Citizenship Teesside One World Centre works closely with Oxfam and other organisations like Christian Aid, Action Aid, UNICEF, to promote the global dimension in the Citizenship Curriculum. We see the Global Citizen as someone who:

• Is aware of the wider world and has a sense of their own role as world citizens;
• Respects and values diversity;
• Is willing to act to make the world a more equitable and sustainable place;
• Takes responsibility for their actions.

Our library of teaching and learning materials supports the topics which fit into the three main themes of the Citizenship Curriculum: Political Literacy, Social and Moral Responsibility and Community Involvement. Educators are welcome to come and browse through our resources, affiliate to the Centre and borrow up to five items for two weeks or longer in agreed situations. We will also process orders for sale of copies of our stock on request.

Letters from Amy - Our linked VSO volunteer in Bangladesh

Amy Skelton is a volunteer in the VSO Youth for Development (YFD) scheme. Aimed at 18 – 25 year olds who have a long-term interest in working in international development.  She is working for a local organisation in Bangladesh called Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK).   Their water and sanitation section (WATSAN) in which Amy works, runs projects to provide legal clean water and sanitation for the urban hardcore-poor, aiming at slum dwellers.  Amy sends us updates of her life and experiences living in Dhaka.  The first of these can be found in the latest news section of this website.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – working with UNICEF

Our staff have been trained by UNICEF to deliver sessions on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as part of their Education Support Service which enables schools to receive classroom sessions with pupils and staff free of charge. The sessions can be linked to all curriculum subjects as well as Global Citizenship and the knowledge and awareness which results from the sessions can be used to inform pupil behaviour and school ethos.

If you would like to know more about our projects, please e-mail us.

Funding for the work of Teesside One World Centre comes from a variety of sources such as: OXFAM, CHRISTIAN AID, UNICEF, Department for International Development (DFID), CLEVELAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council, One World Network North East, National Energy Action (NEA).

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