Hungarian Africa Platform  

A project in the framework of Promoting Development in Europe: Towards a Critical Mass and Beyond - HUNGARY

Mission

The Hungarian Africa Platform was established in 2007 to coordinate the communication among its member organizations, facilitate the sharing of experience, raise funds, organize events and trainings and create a uniform African Development and Aid program.

Target

To raise awareness about development issues and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Objectives

  • To promote tolerance in Hungary, focusing on secondary school students
  • To promote the MDGs to the younger generation and mobilise them to act
  • To encourage students and classes to form partnerships with non-governmental organizations and international organizations
  • To facilitate communication and develop partnership between students locally, regionally and globally
  • To promote intercultural dialogue among children
  • To facilitate social integration, social tolerance and antiracism

Activities

Africa Days

February - May 2009

We organised 7 one-day programmes for secondary school students on the MDGs.

The Africa Days consisted of three main parts:

Part 1: In 30-40 minutes an expert gave an overall introduction about MDGs with photos for the students.

Part 2: We tried to investigate the root causes of one particular MDG and find different solutions. Students were called on to write their own mini-projects.

Part 3: This was the entertaining and final part of the programme. Students participated in several activities such as handcraft or drumming. They made a gift from a trash bin which was a recycling experience or could take part in a short drumming lesson. The whole event was completed by a wonderful picture exhibition with several photos from Ghana, Eritrea and Congo all around the walls of the school.


Children participate in 'Africa Days'.

Teacher trainings

February - March 2009

We paid extra attention to the education of those teachers who followed up the work of the students. We organised 5 three-hour teacher training sessions and gave them printed materials on the MDG issues and inspired them to help us continue the work in the future. We want to reach that teachers actively participate and help more and more students to go on with development issues and implement their own mini-projects. We made a special selection of information sources, videos, photos, articles, etc. on CD and provided them with other digital materials.

Outcome

7 Africa Days

5 teacher trainings

The project reached approximately 500 people (teachers, students) directly and indirectly through different mediums

Media hits in local and national media

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