Challenge Badge Scotdec Is a Global Learning Centre Based in Edinburgh, Working to Put Global Citizenship at the Heart of Education

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS CHALLENGE BADGE SCOTDEC IS A GLOBAL LEARNING CENTRE BASED IN EDINBURGH, WORKING TO PUT GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AT THE HEART OF EDUCATION. OUR VISION IS THAT YOUNG PEOPLE IN SCOTLAND ARE ABLE AND MOTIVATED TO CHALLENGE INEQUALITY – CREATING A FAIRER FUTURE FOR ALL. WE ASPIRE TO WORK IN AN INCLUSIVE AND PARTICIPATORY WAY AND HAVE A CREATIVE AND RESPONSIVE APPROACH TO LEARNING.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR WORK AT WWW.SCOTDEC.ORG.UK WHAT ARE THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS? World Leaders committed World Association of Girl Guides and Girl to the UN Sustainable Scouts (WAGGGS). Although we may have Development Goals (SDGs). different languages, cultures and beliefs, There are 17 Goals that aim each member makes a commitment: to achieve three amazing  To do her best things in the next 15 years.  To be an active citizen of her community and the wider world  End extreme poverty  To help others – from a kind word to  Fight inequality and a neighbour to huge international injustice campaigns  Fix climate change  To develop her spiritual side – whatever she believes or cares about, These 17 Goals have targets which and to respect the beliefs of others. apply to all countries all over the world. To achieve these Goals by 2030 everyone These themes run through everything needs to play their part. we do in Girlguiding Scotland and are also at the heart of the SDGs.

This SDG Challenge Badge has been Girlguiding Scotland designed for young people to learn and the Sustainable about the SDGs and encourage them Development Goals to become the generation that changes the world. The Promise is what brings everyone in Girlguiding together. Our Promise links For more information on the SDGs visit: us to the other ten million girls and www.globalgoals.org young women who are all part of the

1 ABOUT THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS CHALLENGE BADGE This handbook and the accompanying 17 activity postcards have been written for Girlguiding leaders to use with any section.

Through participating in the activities on Rainbows the postcards the girls will: > Do three activities.  gain a deeper understanding of what it Brownies means to be an active and responsible > Do five activities across different themes. global citizen Guides  explore ways they can help others and > Do seven activities, one from each theme. make a positive difference in their communities and the wider world The Senior Section  look at issues from different viewpoints > Do nine activities with at least one from and develop their own beliefs. each theme plus the activity for Goal 17.

The SDGs can be grouped into seven themes The table, on pages 4 & 5, suggests which (from Oxfam UK, Education Resources): activities are most suitable for each section based on the difficulty of the task and level 1. Poverty of understanding needed. Depending on the 2. Health and Wellbeing ages of the girls you may wish to change 3. Education, Skills & Jobs some activities to make them more or less 4. Safe and Fair World challenging. 5. Sustainability 6. Environment The aim of Goal 17 is to connect all the 7. Working Together Goals and consolidate understanding and awareness of the themes. The activity for To earn the SDGs Challenge Badge the Goal 17 is most suitable for Guides and minimum number of activities each section members of The Senior Section and should should complete are detailed here. You can be carried out after you have completed the of course do more than the minimum for other activities. your section.

2 GETTING STARTED HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS OF WAYS YOU CAN INTRODUCE THE 17 SDGS TO THE GIRLS Watch the introductory animations from the World's Largest Lesson: http://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org

After they have watched a film clip:  Get the girls to draw a single comic  Ask the girls, in groups or pairs, to pick frame image showing themselves using the Goal which is most important to their superpower. Ask them to add a them and then design their own logo or speech bubble of how they can help poster to raise awareness about it. with the SDGs.  In groups or pairs get the girls to pick  For The Senior Section: Ask the a Goal and find out what it means for girls to write a tweet on the SDGs people in their community and for and what they mean to them people in other countries. This is a good @TheGlobalGoals #globalgoals way of reminding the girls that the SDGs and tag @GirlguidingScot are for everyone all over the world.

 Get the girls to draw a happy face.  For further ideas visit the On it write down or draw anything World's Largest Lesson: they think will make the world a http://worldslargestlesson. better place for people to live in. globalgoals.org/introduce- Share their ideas. Explain that the 17 the-global-goals SDGs are trying to make the world a better place for everyone, but particularly the poorest and most vulnerable people around the world. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

3 THEMES GOALS

Poverty 1 No poverty 10 Reduce inequalities

Health & 2 Zero hunger wellbeing 3 Good health & wellbeing 6 Clean water & sanitation

Education, 4 Quality education skills & jobs 8 Decent work & economic growth

Safe & 5 Gender equality fair world 16 Peace, justice & strong institutions

Sustainability 7 Affordable & clean energy 9 Industry, innovation & infrastructure 11 Sustainable cities & communities 12 Responsible consumption & production

Environment 13 Climate action 14 Life below water 15 Life on land

Working together 17 Partnerships for the Goals

4 Most suitable for: R B G SS R Rainbows Poverty 1 No poverty B Brownies 10 Reduce inequalities G Guides SS The Senior Health & 2 Zero hunger Section wellbeing 3 Good health & wellbeing 6 Clean water & sanitation

Education, 4 Quality education skills & jobs 8 Decent work & economic growth

Safe & 5 Gender equality fair world 16 Peace, justice & strong institutions

Sustainability 7 Affordable & clean energy 9 Industry, innovation "If you think & infrastructure you are too 11 Sustainable cities small to make & communities a difference, 12 Responsible consumption try sleeping & production with a Environment 13 Climate action mosquito." 14 Life below water The Dalai Lama 15 Life on land

Working together 17 Partnerships for the Goals

5 GOAL 1 NO POVERTY (Worksheet on page 23)

Summary  Housing and infrastructure that can cope There are some general targets for this with disasters, so that the poorest people Goal, like reducing the number of people are no more badly affected than others in affected by poverty and encouraging more society government spending. The other targets are  Support countries with high levels of about social and infrastructure changes which poverty to put in place development help to reduce poverty – like social protection, programmes that will enable them to support to run business and targeted reduce poverty development programmes.  Get governments to agree to spend more money on programmes and projects that When introducing this Goal to your unit, work to end poverty. you should be sensitive to their individual circumstances, as poverty is not only Activity something which affects other people Work with a set of cards to consider what somewhere else. things they consider ‘necessary’ and ‘common’ for young people living in Scotland. Targets  No one lives in extreme poverty Take it further  Half as many people in poverty of any kind > The Child Poverty Action Group and  Social protection, e.g. unemployment Save the Children both work in Scotland benefits and free housing and health care, to improve the lives of children and young for people who need it most people living in poverty. Find out more about the work of these organisations.  Give people the chance to own property, run businesses, and take part in the economy, so that they have a chance to earn money and contribute

6 GOAL 2 ZERO HUNGER (Worksheet on page 24)

Summary  Spend more money in supporting Some of the targets relate to small-scale farming and food production farming and the environment. It’s important in developing countries that food is grown near to the people who  Make sure food is traded fairly around need to eat it and that the farming methods the world are sustainable. This Goal considers how food  Make sure food markets allow people is traded, so that it works for the people who to get the food that has been produced grow the food and those who buy it. while it’s still good, and to make sure there’s a steady supply so that prices It’s a good idea to introduce this topic can be stable and predictable. alongside other food related activities, as this will help the young people to connect their Activity own eating and shopping habits to global Explore where food comes from and why issues. people are hungry. Reconnect with where food comes from by growing your own. Targets  Ensure everyone can eat all year round Take it further  Ensure no one is malnourished, and > Research local shops which sell organic, that children, pregnant and breast- local or fairly traded food. feeding women and old people, all have the food they need  Increase production by small food producers  Ensure farming isn’t harming the environment and that farming methods can cope with the needs of climate change and disasters

7 GOAL 3 GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Summary deaths and illnesses from hazardous While many of the targets for this Goal focus chemicals, air, water and soil pollution on preventing diseases and ensuring quality and contamination. healthcare for all, it is important to also think about ways we can protect our own health Activity and think about the importance of mental Play this game to find out how easily disease health and well-being. spreads and the importance of hand washing.

Targets Take it further  Reduce the number of women dying in > If you are working towards your Brownie childbirth or Guide First Aid badges, explain that gloves  Prevent the deaths of new-borns and should be used whenever giving first aid, for children under five years old the same reason as we wash our hands.  End epidemics such as HIV / AIDS and > If you are working with older girls this can other diseases such as malaria, hepatitis lead into a broader conversation about disease and waterborne diseases prevention, and work towards the AIDS badge:  Educate people on the abuse of drugs and www.wagggs.org/en/resources/aids- alcohol as well as mental health issues badge-curriculum  Halve global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents  Provide information about family planning, sex education and reproductive health  Ensure that everyone can get the healthcare they need, including accessible and economical medicines and vaccines  Substantially reduce the number of

8 GOAL 4 QUALITY EDUCATION

Summary  Education includes teaching people how A good education makes a difference to look after each other and our planet to the life chances of young people all  Make better places to learn over the world and enables them to fully  Spend more money on scholarships which take part in society. While the targets allow people in developing countries focus on ways to provide and improve and remote islands to go through education for children everywhere, it is higher education in other countries also important to remember all the things  Get more teachers everywhere, that a good education helps us to do. especially in developing countries and remote islands. Targets  Ensure everyone can access school for free Activity  Ensure everyone can access nursery By plotting their route to school, the girls  Ensure everyone can access further compare their experience of getting to school education so they can get trained for a job with that of young people in other countries.  More people have the skills they need for good jobs Take it further  Ensure equal access to education > Find out more about the for women, people of all races, Send My Friend to school campaign: disabled people, and children who www.sendmyfriend.org are, for example, refugees  All young people and most adults can read and write

9 GOAL 5 GENDER EQUALITY

Summary Women and girls make up half of the world’s  Promote policies and laws to ensure population and therefore also half of its gender equality, give women equal access potential. But, still today there is gender to ownership and control over land and inequality in all countries at all levels. We other forms of property, financial services, should remember that no matter where you inheritance and natural resources. live, gender equality is a basic human right. It is important to achieving many of the other Activity SDGs, from reducing poverty to improving the Play a simple game to think about health and wellbeing of girls and boys. attitudes to women and girls, including bias we are not even aware of. Targets  End all forms of discrimination against all Take it further women and girls everywhere > Find out about the #FromWhereIStand  End all forms of violence against all project and conduct the survey with your Unit: women and girls, including trafficking and http://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals. sexual and other types of exploitation org/global-goals/gender-equality/  End all practices and traditions that may impair the physical, mental and sexual health of women and girls  Recognise and value women’s work at home. Encourage women and girls to have equal opportunities to be heard and to have real opportunities to participate in all political, economic and social spheres  Protect women’s rights to sexual and reproductive health

10 GOAL 6 CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

Summary Activity It’s hard to imagine life without clean Outdoor simulation game which encourages running water and flushing toilets. girls to think about the importance of clean Yet millions of people worldwide face water and the challenges some people face in challenges on a daily basis to collect clean accessing this. water, access a toilet and keep clean. Take it further Targets > Watch this video and use the notes to  Ensure access to clean water for all prompt a discussion: http://water.org/  Ensure all have access to sanitation water-crisis/womens-crisis (safe sewage disposal and good waste > Discuss: How does lack of access to management) and public health adequate clean water and sanitation education on healthy hygiene habits affect women around the world? What  Monitor water quality to reduce solutions are being developed? contamination. Prevent chemicals or contaminants from being thrown into the water  Improve water use, developing great resources for its reuse  Raise awareness among communities to make sure they play an active part in improving their water management and sanitation  Protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes.

11 GOAL 7 AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY

Summary Our everyday lives depend on reliable and  By 2030, expand infrastructure and affordable energy whether it’s to power our upgrade technology for supplying household goods, help us learn at school modern and sustainable energy services or keep us safe and warm at night. A well- for all in developing countries. established energy system supports all sectors: from businesses to medicine and Activity education to agriculture. Without these Explore sources of sustainable energy energy supplies it is difficult for countries with an outdoor activity. to progress and meet many other SDGs. Take it further Targets > Find out about your environmental  Ensure access for all to affordable, reliable footprint using this helpful calculator and modern energy services through new and compare it with other children’s infrastructure and better technology environmental footprint from around  Promote energy efficiency – more the world: quickly developing technology http://cdn.worldslargestlesson. that wastes less energy globalgoals.org/2016/06/Understanding-  Increase the use of renewable Sustainable-Living.pdf energy sources globally, compared with other sources of energy  Work together to research and develop renewable and other clean energy resources

12 GOAL 8 DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (Worksheet on page 25)

Summary  Devise and implement policies to promote Eradicating poverty is only possible if people sustainable tourism that creates jobs and are able to get stable and well-paid jobs. promotes local culture and products As well as creating jobs, working conditions  Increase Aid for Trade support for need to be improved to ensure a fair income developing countries, in particular least and safe and secure places to work. It is developed countries also important that men and women are  Globally, take actions to give more jobs given equal opportunities at work. to young people.

Targets Activity  Offer opportunities for safe, creative work Explore the clothes supply chain and find that motivates people’s development out how fair it is.  Ensure our natural resources are respected and protected in economic activities Take it further  Promote decent work and safe working > Investigate Fairtrade cotton and how this environments for all: men and women, helps cotton farmers. Find out where you youth, people with disabilities and can buy Fairtrade cotton locally: migrant workers http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/en/  Reduce the proportion of youth not in buying-fairtrade/cotton employment, education or training  Prevent and end forced labour and child labour in all forms  Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants and those in precarious employment 13 GOAL 9 INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Summary Activity We take a lot of our basic things such as Take part in a scavenger hunt which roads, sanitation, electricity, water and encourages discussion on how access communications for granted. But how to technology improves communication sustainable are these? Economic growth, and increases efficiency. social development and climate action are all dependent on good infrastructure, sustainable Take it further development and technological progress. The world’s poorest households are more likely to have a mobile phone Targets than a toilet.  Develop sustainable and resilient infrastructure to support economic > Ask the girls to discuss how they feel development and human wellbeing about this statement. What do they  Provide small businesses with think we should focus on first – digital access to credit and technical technology or sanitation? support for their development  Ensure that companies promote sustainable development and do not harm the environment  Allocate resources for research to address that country’s specific needs and improve technology  Ensure all have access to the internet and new technologies, especially those living in least developed countries.

14 GOAL 10 REDUCED INEQUALITIES

Summary  Ensure people who leave one Inequalities based on income, gender, age, country to live in another benefit disability, sexual orientation, race, class, from laws to protect them. ethnicity, religion and opportunity still exist across the world, within and between Activity countries. We cannot achieve sustainable Inequalities are highlighted through development and make the planet better for a game which uses the chocolate supply all if people are excluded from opportunities, chain as an example. services and the chance for a better life. Take it further Targets > Show the girls the Fairtrade logo on the  Support sustainable economic growth chocolate packet, and discuss what it  Ensure laws and practices do not means. www.fairtrade.org.uk discriminate against any group, but > Investigate the Cadbury Cocoa Life project rather listen to people’s needs and www.cocoalife.org the input of those who are affected > Discuss how is the Cadbury Cocoa Life  Facilitate orderly, safe, regular project different from the Fairtrade and responsible migration Foundation. and mobility of people  Ensure laws and social programs protect disadvantaged and vulnerable people. For example, when establishing quotas in a political party, youth, women, indigenous peoples, and persons with disabilities must also be included

15 GOAL 11 SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES (See separate A4 folded worksheet)

Summary  Prepare communities to manage Half of the people in the world, 3.5 billion their resources properly and people, live in cities today and this number to tackle climate change. will continue to grow. Because the future will be urban for most people, the solutions Activity to some of the greatest issues facing us Explore what you need to ensure that a – poverty, climate change, healthcare, community has enough to meet everyone’s education – must be found in city life. basic needs sustainably.

Targets Take it further  Ensure all have access to quality, > Ask the girls to think about what they have safe housing and basic services seen on the news. Are different countries more  Provide safe, organised transport that or less vulnerable to natural disasters? Explain is not harmful to the environment and that natural disasters don’t affect every is also specifically designed to serve country in the same way, for some it is far children, women and vulnerable people more devastating than others. What factors  Engage communities in discussions and do they think affect this? planning for improvement of their cities > Research a recent natural disaster that has  Strengthen efforts to protect and happened in the real world and find out what safeguard the world’s cultural resources those communities needed to help and natural heritage them survive and rebuild.  Increase resilience to disasters  Ensure monitoring of waste management and air quality

16 GOAL 12 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

Summary  Ensure large companies’ practices More people globally are expected to join the are responsible, open and middle class over the next two decades, which environmentally sound means more people will have more money  Keep the public informed and educated, to spend on non-essentials, for example new and provide the tools to live in harmony clothes, a nice holiday, etc. This is good for with nature for sustainable lifestyles. individual wealth but it will increase demand for already limited natural resources. If we Activity don’t act to change our consumption and Play with a parachute to explore attitudes production patterns, we will cause irreversible to how our clothes are made. damage to our environment. Encourage the section to think about their own buying habits Take it further – what do they need and what do they want? > Visit www.scotdec.org.uk/resources for activities to help you find out about clothes. Targets > Watch Stacey Dooley as she finds out about  Halve the amount of global food waste the people who make our clothes: per person, by individuals and companies www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/show-me-  Ensure that international agreements what-youre-made-of for handling harmful chemicals are met, taking care of the air, water and soil  Reduce the generation of waste through the three Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

17 GOAL 13 CLIMATE ACTION

Summary  Support effective climate change- Climate change is caused by human activities related planning and management and is threatening the way we live and the in least developed countries and future of our planet. By tackling climate remote island states, including change, we can build a sustainable world focusing on women, youth and local for everyone. But we need to act now. and marginalised communities.

Targets Activity  Strengthen resilience and adaptive Find out what the girls think and know about capacity to climate-related hazards climate change and what they can do about it. and natural disasters in all countries  Address climate change issues in Take it further governments’ agendas and allocate > Take part in WWF’s Earth Hour, an resources to combat climate change annual global event where people come  Improve education, awareness-raising together and switch off their lights for and human and institutional capacity on an hour. Lots of activity ideas for outdoor climate change mitigation, adaptation, fun and night time adventures! impact reduction and early warning www.wwf.org.uk/earthhour/ youth-resources

18 GOAL 14 LIFE BELOW WATER

Summary  By 2030, increase the economic Over three quarters of our planet is covered benefits to remote islands and least by oceans. They contain over 80% of all life developed countries from the sustainable on earth, mostly unexplored. Millions of use of marine resources, including people worldwide depend on the oceans through sustainable management of for their daily livelihoods. They help also fisheries, aquaculture and tourism with the breakdown and removal of waste  Provide access for small-scale artisanal and pollution, and their coastal ecosystems fishers to marine resources and markets act as buffers to reduce damage from  By 2020, conserve at least 10% storms. We need to protect our oceans. of coastal and marine areas.

Targets Activity  Prevent and significantly reduce Find out about more sustainable marine pollution of all kinds, in fishing with this fun game. particular from land-based activities  Sustainably manage and protect Take it further marine and coastal ecosystems > Read up on overfishing,  Pass and enforce laws that prohibit www.overfishing.org has some good illegal fishing, overfishing and other resources. While overfishing is a global destructive fishing practices problem, the issues vary for different  Minimise and address the impacts locations. Try to find information on your of ocean acidification, including own local situation. Take action to spread through enhanced scientific the word to make people in your community cooperation at all levels more aware of what they can do to help.

19 GOAL 15 LIFE ON LAND (Worksheet on pages 26-27)

Summary Activity Forests cover nearly 31% of our planet’s land To explore what will happen locally area. From the air we breathe to the water and globally if we continue to cut we drink to the food we eat, forests sustain down rainforests. us. However, forests continue to be chopped down at a shocking rate. Take it further > Watch the video: Targets https://vimeo.com/194425715  Protect and conserve ecosystems > Talk about why forests are so important to (for example, deserts and indigenous women and why they need to be rainforests) by respecting signed involved in conservation efforts and decisions international agreements by policymakers regarding this ecosystem  Reduce deforestation and plant which is so rich in biodiversity. more trees in order to reforest  Combat desertification, restore > For more information on climate degraded land and soil change and forests visit:  Ensure conservation of mountain www.forestsforthefuture.co.uk ecosystems, including their biodiversity – a resource investigating trees,  Protect and urgently prevent the forests and climate change. extinction of endangered species: stop uncontrolled hunting and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna. Involve indigenous communities in this process.

20 GOAL 16 PEACE AND JUSTICE

Summary  Ensure all children are given an Peaceful, just and inclusive societies are identity including birth registration necessary to achieve the SDGs. People  Ensure all people have free everywhere need to feel safe as they go about access to information their lives whatever their ethnicity, faith or  Strengthen institutions to prevent sexual orientation. In order to achieve the violence, terrorism and crime. SDGs we need effective and inclusive public institutions that can deliver quality education Activity and healthcare, fair economic policies and Young people are given the right to inclusive environmental protection. participate in Article 12. In this voting activity, find out what it means to not have a voice. Targets  End violence in the world and Take it further related death rates everywhere > Find out more about Children’s  End the abuse, exploitation, Rights with UNICEF’s resources. trafficking and all forms of violence > For older girls, this practical and torture against children guide for youth action looks at  Ensure that everyone has equal access to power, rights and participation. justice in their country or internationally http://restlessdevelopment.org/file/  Combat crime and corruption in any form power-rights-and-participation-pdf  Ensure citizens are consulted and their governments make decisions with the interest of children and adults in mind. For example, children and young people must be consulted before a legal law which affects their lives is signed

21 GOAL 17 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

Summary  Respect countries’ policy decisions, We need everyone to come together provided they are consistent. For example, – governments, civil society, scientists, you cannot create rules for the protection academics and the private sector – to achieve of natural resources and give permission the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. for their exploitation at the same time The agenda is universal and calls for  Engage with the organisations and action by all countries, rich and poor, individuals who have been working to make sure no one is left behind for many years on the various topics and everyone plays their part. related to the SDGs. Involve them in the process of achieving the SDGs Targets  Ensure all countries improve their  Help ensure all countries have met data and statistics management to be these Goals by 2030. The SDGs should able to assess their progress towards be present in national plans and the achievement of the SDGs. each state will decide which issues are most pressing in their country Activity  Ensure each country allocates its This is a longer activity which will take own resources to achieve the SDGs. place over a series of evenings where the In addition, richer countries should girls work towards selecting and taking commit to supporting achievement of action on issues that they care about. the SDGs in less developed countries

22 WORKSHEET FOR GOAL 1 NO POVERTY(see page 6) What is 'common' and 'necessary' cards

Regular leisure activities (swimming, playing an instrument, Indoor games participating in youth organisations)

An internet connection Two pairs of properly At least one healthy and laptop fitting shoes meal a day

Books at home A quiet place with A mobile phone (not including enough room and light school books) to do homework

Some The opportunity new clothes Outdoor play to have friends home i.e. not all equipment to play and eat second-hand

23 WORKSHEET FOR GOAL 2 (see page 7) ZERO HUNGER Why are people hungry worksheet

‘We had a small piece ‘We grow a little of land where we coffee to earn money could grow rice to eat. for food and clothes. But it was taken by a But we are paid very company growing fruit little for it and so we to sell abroad.’ cannot buy much.’ Maria, the Philippines Silvia, Peru

‘Sometimes I only ‘Anthony was driven have enough money from his land by to buy food for the fighting. ‘My house, baby. Then I have my sugar cane and nothing to eat.’ my orange trees Annie, a young mother were all burnt.’ from Leeds Anthony, Kenya

‘I did not have ‘My husband lost breakfast this his job. There’s not morning. The shops much food now. are full of food, but It’s two weeks I have no money to since we had meat.’ buy anything.’ Marinalva, Brazil John, England

Adapted from www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/making-a-meal-of-it 24 WORKSHEET FOR GOAL 8 (see page 13) DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Role cards

Cotton grower works on a small farm, hard Cotton weaver physical work planting and long tricky process, need picking cotton, bad weather to be highly skilled, conditions can damage repaying loans on harvest, responsible for expensive machinery family income needed to weave cotton

Cotton buyer could lose money buying Shop owner and selling cotton as must pay rent for building, price goes up and down, pay staff to work in shop, has to pay to transport shop fittings, advertising, fresh picked cotton to price reductions the cotton weaver

Factory owner responsible for quality control of clothes, paying factory workers, profit is invested in keeping up-to-date with latest fashion styles

25 WORKSHEET FOR GOAL 15 (see page 20) LIFE ON LAND A World without rainforests cards

Rainforest plants are used to make medicine Rainforests pump to help find cures heat from the for diseases. If the hot regions of forests are destroyed the world to the we lose the chance to cooler regions, and discover important without them the new medicines. climate will change.

When the forest is cut Tree canopies down the people who provide shade, live there lose their cooling the homes, livelihoods environment and way of life. around them.

More than half of the Forests protect the soil world’s animal species from the rain. Without live in the rainforest. them the soil is washed When the forest is away into the creeks destroyed species die and rivers and can out and important cause flooding. biodiversity is lost.

26 Forests absorb and The rainforests store carbon. When have evolved over the forest is cleared millions of years the carbon is released and once they have as carbon dioxide been cut down it which contributes to takes many years climate change. for them to regrow.

Trees are cut down People living in and to plant soybeans around the rainforests and palm oil trees. depend on fresh water Chemicals sprayed to grow their crops and onto these trees pollute stay healthy. As the the rivers, kill many forest is cut down the of the fish, destroy water supply falls as people’s crops and can the rainfall decreases. cause health problems.

Trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen and purify the air we breathe. Without the trees of the rainforest our air will be more polluted. From www.ourforestourfuture.org.uk

27 SCOUTS AND GUIDES ACTIVE GLOBAL CITIZENS 2015-2018

This Challenge Badge was produced in 2017 In Scotland the project partner Scotdec, a as part of a three-year European project Global Learning centre based in Edinburgh, funded by the European Commission: worked in partnership with Scouts Scotland Scouts and Guides, Active Global Citizens. and Girlguiding Scotland to deliver Global Citizenship workshops for Scout and Guide The project brought together Global leaders. Through these workshops the Citizenship NGOs and Scout and Guide idea emerged to create engaging and Associations from seven European countries, practical SDG activities specifically for advocating a shared vision of a Global Guide and Scout leaders. This Challenge Citizenship approach to Scouting and Guiding. Badge is the outcome of that work. Global Citizenship enables young people to be able and motivated to challenge global The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl inequality – creating a fairer future for all. Scouts (WAGGGS) and World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM) have more Partners within this project worked than 50 million members represented in more together to create practical and engaging than 216 countries. Both organisations have Global Citizenship tools for Scout and publicly committed to supporting the SDGs. Guide leaders. The tools offer a Global Citizenship framework for Scouting and Guiding, encourage self-evaluation and offer We welcome feedback participatory Global Citizenship activities and collaboration. for young people. These tools can be found www.scotdec.org.uk at www.scotdec.org.uk/resources

'Global Citizenship Education enables young people to be able and motivated to challenge global inequality creating a fairer future for all.'

28 "BE THE CHANGE THAT YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD." GANDHI

Written by Charlotte Dwyer and Kate Allen at Scotdec, www.scotdec.org.uk Olivia Robertson at Girlguiding Scotland, www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk

With thanks to Claire Flynn, Jess Walker, Ruth Gallacher and Laura Wright (Girlguiding Scotland) Girlguiding Scotland is the operating name of The Guide Association Scotland, Scottish charity number SC005548

Design by creativecontext (07952 184 166) with thanks adapted from and inspired by The Global Goals IN SEPTEMBER 2015 193 WORLD LEADERS AGREED TO 17 GLOBAL GOALS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. ACHIEVING THESE GOALS WOULD MEAN AN END TO EXTREME POVERTY, INEQUALITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE BY 2030.

AS THE LEADING CHARITY FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN SCOTLAND, GIRLGUIDING SCOTLAND EMPOWERS OUR YOUNG MEMBERS TO TAKE ACTION, USE THEIR VOICE AND BE A FORCE FOR GOOD. WE ARE EXCITED TO HELP GIRLS LEARN WHAT THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS MEAN FOR THEM AND HOW THEY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

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