LENT 2016 TEACHER’S BOOKLET

Hear the cry of the earth and the poor Whakarongo ki te tangi o Papatūānuku me te hunga pōhara

We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family. Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, #52 Introduction Food Security Climate Change This year’s school resource In September 2015 the United Nations announced its 2030 In his recent encyclical, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis says that the for Lent focuses on the Agenda for Sustainable Development. Among its 17 goals to negative effects of climate change are felt most by those who be achieved by 2030 is ending hunger and ensuring access have made the smallest contribution to it: the poor. experiences and challenges by all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year In , the effects of climate change are experienced of Cambodians living in round. In order to do this they have a target of doubling the by small farmers who notice that the wet season rainfall has agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale farmers. rural areas. Students will increased and the dry season rainfall has decreased. They This means small food producers will be supported with learn about the rich culture experience long periods of drought and then flash-flooding. In training, financial services, access to markets and fair access the past, flooding has resulted in the destruction of more than and recent sad history of to land. Cambodia, while being half the rice crop of the entire country. This trend looks set to Development and Partnership in Action, Cambodia (DPA) continue unless Cambodia’s farmers can learn to adapt their exposed to social justice and Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand are working with small agricultural methods to the changing weather patterns. farmers in Cambodia to achieve food security. They provide issues around food security, DPA and Caritas are working with small communities to help training courses for farmers in methods of rice planting, climate change, human them mitigate the effects of climate change, through such mixed cropping, soil preservation and organic gardening. rights and land rights. techniques as drip irrigation and plastic mulching, digging They also provide farming co-operatives with value-adding wells and other water reservoirs, and the planting of drought- equipment such as rice mills. All of these things will ensure resistant seeds. that the productivity of small farmers in Cambodia increases.

2 Human Rights Land Rights According to Freedom House, Cambodia is classified as a country where freedom of Access to, and protection of, ancestral lands is vital for small communities expression is significantly restricted, due to the absence of civil liberties and political in Cambodia. DPA, Caritas and other non-governmental organisations are rights. The Prime Minister of almost thirty years, Hun Sen, is a former assisting rural Cambodians in identifying and mapping their customary officer. His security forces are allowed to use substantial force in dealing with trade land. They can then apply for legal land title which they hope will protect union and other peaceful protests. Forced evictions and illegal land acquisitions by their land from forestry and mining companies. At present they have little politically powerful people and their business partners are common. defence against large businesses who may be granted concessions by local or national government to fell trees or explore for minerals on their land. Many workers in garment factories in Cambodia also struggle with human rights abuses. According to a Human Rights Watch report published in 2015, problems Being able to protect their forests is crucial to many indigenous Cambodian experienced by garment factory workers include enforced overtime, lack of rest peoples who depend on the fruit and plants of the forests for food and breaks, denial of sick leave, physical and emotional abuse, denial of maternity benefits medicine. They also have a spiritual attachment to their forests. and use of under-aged labour. A Kreung chief explains the importance of the forest to his tribe in this way: Groups like DPA are well aware of the difficulties rural Cambodians might face if they We have no market like . We go to the forest to collect. Our are unable to make a living on their land, and are forced into the cities to work in survival depends on it. We need to manage our land here if our future factories. generations are to keep our traditions and culture alive. Basic rights that we may take for granted such as access to education, having an adequate standard of living, enjoying freedom of choice, and living in security are other human rights issues that are explored in the lessons outlined in this resource.

3 6 Resources Overview CARITAS PHOTOS PICTURE CHALLENGE What do you do to help at What do home? POSTERS you think PACK Sopee and her Can you Can you Mum are doing How does on their land?see where the name all the light comes animals you your family from? can see? share dinner? What do Explain you think thiswhat Sopee What family seesdoes to cook special out their her food. items can window? Unit plans you see? What is stored in these What do containers? you think this family 1 DAY OF may be Hear the cry of the Do you doing? know what DIFFERENCE food they are Background information earth and the poor What do growing?Can you you notice explain what FOR A LIFETIME about the everyoneWhat is food doing? POPE FRANCIS house? How does Are your is Sopee’s this family’s home and family OF CHANGE home and land pets the enjoying? same? 1 APRIL - 15 MAY 2016 compareIs your with yours?kitchen The Catholic Agency for Justice, Peace & Development Photo 5: Family work after school similar to The Catholic Agency for Justice, Peace & Development Prayers Photo 6: Home and animals Sopee’s? REGISTER ONLINE TODAY The Caritas Challenge is an annual fundraising The Catholic Agency for Justice, Peace & Development OR SPONSOR A PARTICIPANT event. Building solidarity with those living Photo 4: Life in the village with poverty or injustice, the Challenge The Catholic Agency for Justice, Peace & Development An appeal on behalf of the WWW.CARITAS.ORG.NZ/CARITAS-CHALLENGE offers hands-on experiences that are fun KOHA Photo 3: Family dinner at home Join us on Facebook: and informative. In 2016 the focus is on New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference. improving the lives and livelihoods of poor The Catholic Agency for Justice, Peace & Development WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CARITASCHALLENGE and marginalised people in Cambodia. Photo 2: Cooking lunch at home PleaseLENT give generously so we can help others help themselves. For more information, please contact Esther Robinson BUILD BACK BETTER The Catholic Agency for Justice, Peace & Development on 0800 22 10 22 or email to [email protected] LAUNCH WEEKEND 1 - 2 APRIL, 2016 BOX Photo 1: At the temple Curriculum links APPEAL POSTERS Hear the cry of the earth and the poor * Lent 2016 * Whakarongo ki te tangi o Papatūānuku me te hunga pōhara WHAT HAPPENED? The night before Jesus is arrested he has a final meal with his friends. They share simple food; unleavened bread and wine. He indicates that he is about to offer his LENT life for his friends and the bread and wine will be his body and blood. VERSE Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to KEEP IT BOOKLET them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” Luke 22:17-19 The Catholic Agency for Justice, Peace & Development REFLECTION SIMPLE A group game designed by Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand to educate students about living Think of the meals that we share with family and friends. in Cambodia, relying on agricultural trading and the existence of co-operative groups. How often do we take for granted the food that we eat while two Learn and share calendar thirds of the world’s population worry about where their next meal will FOR LENT come from? Purpose: To understand life in Cambodia: Caritas challenges YOU this Lent to make a difference in others’ lives by making small changes to your daily actions. Grow in compassion and a) providing for a large family E te Atua o te whenua, PRAYER empathy for the poor and vulnerable in countries such as Cambodia. b) relying on agricultural work Lent 2016: Stations of the Cross activity card series God of the earth, we pray for the many people in our world who struggle to 14 KEY: Do Pray Create Give Find Live c) the inconsistency of market trading 2016 grow the food they need to live. c) the benefits of working in a co-operative May we who have so much share what we have with others so that all might Worksheet 8: The land is our food basket FACT SHEETS Aim of the game: To make enough money share in the fruits of the earth. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday during the season to provide for your family. HOLY WEEK Lent Begins Ka Tīmata te Wā o Rēneti Look at the map of a Cambodian village and answer the questions below. Injustice Continues Today Difficulties that Cambodians Start: Each player receives one profile card face daily that threaten human rights are: Name: A Cambodian name will be here* Today Cambodia is a parliamentary democracy, just like (30 unique cards in the set) 8 Feb 9 10 11 12 13 14  Age: Their age is listed Find out the meaning of Lent SHROVE TUESDAY ASH WEDNESDAY Write a prayer to ask Choose a prayer from the Spend time having fun with FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT High rates of HIV and aids; Profile cards: A template of the profile card is and write it in one of your Choose to give up something Get involved in your school forgiveness for times you teachers’ booklet to pray with your friends and family. Make your own koha box to collect New Zealand, though both countries have different Family size: The number of family members is here ACTIVITIES  Extreme poverty; shown to the right. Each student/player will be school books. for Lent. Or think of ways you Ash Wednesday Mass/liturgy. have made the wrong choices. your class. donations from your whānau Farm production: Their main crop produced is shown can help others during Lent. Make a commitment to follow during Lent, and help those electoral systems and Cambodia is dominated by one given a Cambodian identity (* not real). This will  Malnutrition as a result of food not being sustainable; GAMES the teachings of Jesus. experiencing poverty and injustice. party. The Cambodian People’s Party is led by Hun Sen include a name and age as well as details of the Money earned alone: POSSIBLE ACTIVITY  Valuing Culture Whakamanahia ngā Tikanga ā-Iwi Lack of access to welfare; health care, education; family size and what is produced on their farm. Share a simple meal together who was a former officer for the Khmer Rouge. This party Bad week - The worst possible weekly outcome  and reflect on where the food Cheap labour - Cambodia is known for ‘sweatshops’ Earning money: At the bottom of the students’ Good week - The best possible weekly outcome 15 16 17 18 19 20 Mercy 21 has governed the country since 1979 making it one of the profile cards the weekly amounts earned are you are eating has come from. that have poor conditions and often resemble slavery; Money earned through working in a co-operative: Who grew the raw ingredients Learn to say ‘hello’ in three Pray for people that have to Find out how many cultures are Bring some food to share with Create a card for someone Welcome a stranger: Think SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT shown for four different scenarios. The red new languages and practice travel and live away from their represented in your class. your class. Be brave and try a special to let them know how of people who are new to your Draw your family tree. What longest ruling parties in the world. This brings into  Bad week - The worst possible weekly outcome of your meal? Who processed Climate change is affecting rural communities who amounts refer to bad weeks and the blue with your friends. own home and culture. Go online and discover the focus new recipe from a different much they mean to you. neighbourhood or parish. Find cultures are found in your the raw ingredients? Are all the question how democratic Cambodia can really be if it has can struggle to grow food and have access to water; Good week - The best possible weekly outcome of the 2016 Caritas Challenge: country. ways to welcome them and family history? What values are amounts refer to good weeks. The top two suppliers of your food paid www.caritas.org.nz help them feel like they belong. important to your family? amounts are linked to a farmer working alone been governed by one party for such a long time.  Illegal forestry on indigenous land; * NOTE: All of these details are made up and reflect reality but are not real individuals. adequately for their labour? outside of a co-operative. The bottom two Food Security He Kai mō te Katoa  Mine explosions causing death and amputations; amounts show the possible amounts that a Playing rounds: Each round represents a week, and 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Allegations of corruption and injustice cloud the  Human trafficking - often people living in poverty farmer working in a co-operative can earn. students need to flip a coin or roll a dice to determine Mercy if they have had a good or bad week. Try not to waste any food this Put a donation in your koha Pray a special grace before Find out how many people in the Feed the Hungry: Bring a Conserve water today by THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT Cambodian government and it is often criticised for its are promised work in a nearby town and instead week. Set up a compost bin or box for every time you eat meals today, giving thanks for world don’t have easy access to non-perishable food item to having a shorter shower and Give thanks every time you drink a worm farm. today. Remember those who all that you have. clean water. Or find out which school today (e.g. a can). As a using only one cup of water to water today. Extra: Remember are sold to traffickers who take them from Outcomes Good week Bad week inaction to alleviate poverty and promote human rights. are hungry and have to go countries struggle to produce class, give your contribution to clean your teeth. the people in the Middle East without. enough food to feed their people. your local food bank. especially refugees from Syria. their families, keep them as slaves and Coin toss Head Tail force them into prostitution. Climate Change Te Hurihanga Āhuarangi Dice roll 4, 5 or 6 1, 2 or 3 29 1 March 2 3 4 5 Mercy 6 Tracking: After each round, students need to add the Try to cut down on plastic Put a donation in the koha Find out which Pacific nations Pray for people in Cambodia Reduce your carbon footprint Drink for the Thirsty: FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT amount earned from their trading according to their packaging in your lunches this box for people who have are most affected by rising sea and other countries that lose by walking/ cycling to school, Be inspired by the words of Create reminder signs to help This is a Caritas summary of the 30 human rights that are outlined week. Think of ways you can been affected by floods and levels. their crops due to changes in or by using public transport. Gandhi to ‘live simply so that your family remember to turn roll/flip and their own profile card. Then subtract the help protect the environment. droughts. climate. others may simply live’. Think of off lights or appliances when in the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights family costs based on the number of family members. ways to apply this in your life. they are not in use. Hear the cry of the earth and the poor * Lent 2016 * Whakarongo ki te tangi o Papatūānuku me te hunga pōhara Human Rights Ngā Tika Tangata 7 8 9 10 11 12 Mercy 13 Watch A day in the life of Sopee Find out five basic human rights Pray for those who don’t Create a poster that promotes Respect the human rights Clothe the Naked: Find some FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT and put a coin in the koha that everyone in the world is have access to healthcare or a human right (e.g. the right of your friends by treating clothes at home that you don’t Ask a family member what box to help Sopee and her entitled to. Write down a list of education. to adequate food or shelter). them with extra kindness and wear anymore and donate they would like to do today 24 community. Find the video all the things you have at your listening to them. them to a charity. and help them do it. online: www.caritas.org.nz school that you are lucky to have.

Land Rights Ngā Tika ki te Whenua What useful things can be found in the forest? WORKSHEETS 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Mercy Plant a tree at your school or Find out about an indigenous Give a koha to Caritas so we ST PATRICK’S DAY Read the story of Parihaka Visit the Sick: Visit a friend or PALM SUNDAY in your backyard to remember culture that has had land can help people in Cambodia Wear something green today online www.caritas.org.nz someone in your family who Go for a walk with others and people who have lost their unfairly taken from them. secure rights to their land. and think of people who have Say a prayer for tangata you know is unwell. Cheer think of those around the world land or loved ones. lost their land. whenua of Aotearoa New them up and pray for them. who must walk long distances for Zealand. food, water and an education.

What crops are grown in the fields? Holy Week Te Wiki Tapu 21 22 23 24 25 26 Mercy 27 Read the story of the Last Do something nice for Give a gold coin donation for HOLY THURSDAY GOOD FRIDAY Bury the Dead: Remember EASTER SUNDAY Supper (Matthew 26:17-30; someone today as a random children who will not get to Share your Passover meal and Pray the Stations of the Cross. the happy moments you Make an Easter card that Mark 14:12-26; or Luke 22:7- act of kindness. enjoy any special treats for remember victims of poverty shared with loved ones who celebrates your life and the 23) and share it with someone Easter this year. and injustice. have died. lives of those around you. How many villages share the forest? at home. Give it to someone special.

Caritas Challenge Te Wero o Caritas FIND OUT MORE AT www.caritas.org.nz/caritas-challenge 28 29 30 31 1 April 2 3 Give 30 minutes of your time Prepare to participate in the Find out about how Pray for people throughout Take part in the Caritas Take part in the Caritas Write down a message for to help someone out today. Caritas Challenge. Or think Cambodian people will be the world who are making Challenge and make a Challenge and make a yourself to help you stay How is this village different from the place where you live? about how you can support supported as a result of the a difference by helping the difference. Or pray for people difference. Or give a donation inspired to make a difference others. Caritas Challenge. most vulnerable in developing doing the Caritas Challenge. for the people of Cambodia. into the future. countries.

Give a little to help those facing challenges that threaten their

Be merciful – this year is the Jubilee of Mercy culture, access to food and water, human rights and land rights. Draw a simple map of your neighbourhood on the back of this sheet and label the important features. In Matthew 25:31-45, Jesus challenges us to show mercy to those in need. He even says that when we help those who are More information can be found online www.caritas.org.nz Thank you Hear the cry of the earth and the poor * Lent 2016 * Whakarongo ki te tangi o Papatūānuku me te hunga pōhara Hear the cry of the earth and the poor * Lent 2016 * Whakarongo ki te tangi o Papatūānuku me te hunga pōhara for your struggling we actually do it for God. In the same way, when Donations: LENT we ignore the needs of others it is like we are ignoring God. Collect the total money gifted during Lent and send a cheque for that amount to: generosity. Included in our Lent calendar this year there are six Lenten Appeal, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, PO Box 12193, Thorndon, Wellington 6144 special days devoted to the corporal works of mercy. Or DONATE online at www.caritas.org.nz 10 12 How many can you achieve? CALENDAR VIDEOS POWERPOINTS

…we have to realise that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in 4 debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. POPE FRANCIS, LAUDATO SI’, #49 online resources K Worksheets 4 Fact Sheets P Games Y1-2 1 Cambodia flag 1 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand Cambodian Co-ops 2 Be careful what you drink 2 Cambodia Class games from Cambodia 3 Life at school 3 Caritas in Cambodia Creating a kick toy to play SEY 4 Who works harder? 4 Sopee Sari and her family 5 CST in action Y3-4 5 Prayer flags instructions 6 Lun Nee and his family B Liturgies 6 The widow’s offering 7 Sen Peap – a model farmer Primary Lent 2016 liturgy 7 Life in Cambodia and New Zealand 8 Community forest patrols and land rights Secondary Lent 2016 liturgy 8 The land is our food basket 9 School life in Cambodia Y5-6 9 basics 10 Food and water in Cambodia 10 Lotus flower creation 11 Buddhism at a glance H Stations of the Cross 11 Traditional land use 12 Buddhism, and Holy Week: Stations of the Cross PowerPoint 12 Health wordsearch 13 Adapting to climate change Holy Week: Stations of the Cross activity cards 13 Micro-climates 14 A short history of Y7-8 14 Buddhism, Animism and Christianity H Videos 15 With the poor and for the poor S PowerPoints Greetings from Cambodia 16 Caritas and DPA in Cambodia Lent 2016: So it begins... A day in the life of Sopee 17 Claiming what is ours School in Cambodia Land rights and forest patrols Y9-10 18 Set the table for all Meet Sopee Sari Adapting to climate change 19 Human rights in Cambodia Cambodia Life in the village for Lun Nee 20 Community land rights Growing food together Remembering the Khmer Rouge A growing community: Sen Peap’s story Y11-13 21 Food for all Food from the land Changing lives: A principal’s story 22 Human rights in Cambodia Community forests Laudato Si’ animation (Primary) 23 The universal destination of goods Caritas helping in Cambodia Laudato Si’ animation (Secondary) 24 Food is a human right Farming co-operatives in Cambodia (Y7-8) Farming co-operatives in Cambodia (Y9-10) Food security in Cambodia Laudato Si’ – Care of our common home

all online resources can be found at www.caritas.org.nz 5 We are not simply talking about ensuring nourishment or a ‘dignified sustenance’ for all people, but also their general temporal welfare and prosperity. Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, #192

6 Theological focus

As this year is the Jubilee of Mercy, the theme of mercy is a common thread woven throughout the planned lessons. They also challenge us to re-examine our lives, as Pope Francis called for in Misericordiae Vultus. Each unit plan for every level outlines a challenge related to mercy and includes inspiring Pope Francis quotes from Misericordiae Vultus. Connections have also been made in each unit and within lessons with Pope Francis’ recent encyclical, Laudato Si’. We are challenged to hear both the cry of the earth and of the poor. Pope Francis emphasises that care of the earth and care of the poor are inexorably linked, as it is the poor who suffer most from the effects of environmental degradation. Both everyday experience and scientific research show that the gravest effects of all attacks on the environment are suffered by the poor. — Laudato Si’, #48

The Pope puts before us the example of St Francis of Assisi, who had a great love of the poor and of the earth. ...for to him each and every creature was a sister united to him by bonds of affection. That is why he felt called to care for all that exists. — Laudato Si’, #11

We are called to care not only for our common home, the earth, but also for our neighbour. The call is an entirely practical one. Those of us living in developed societies are challenged to change our lifestyles. We can make consumer choices that will change the way businesses operate and the way that workers are treated. We can learn to limit our needs so that by having less ourselves, others may have enough. For example, we can cause less pollution to reduce the effects of climate change. We can waste less water and food, so others can have more. We can live according to an integral ecology, which is not just about environmental protection, but also has human and social dimensions. We can take a step back and look at the big picture and purpose of our lives and discover the interrelatedness of all creatures, because …all creatures are moving forward, with us and through us, towards a common point of arrival, which is God. — Laudato Si’, #83

7 social justice themes

Concern for the poor The Old Testament reveals a God who is deeply concerned for the poor. He commands the people of Israel to provide for the alien, the orphan and the widow, and reminds them of their own lowly beginnings as slaves in Egypt. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this. — Deuteronomy 24: 21-22 Justice for the poor The Old Testament prophets are scathing of the rulers of Israel who become ‘fat and happy’ on the backs of the poor. The prophet Amos calls King Jeroboam to repentance for neglecting and oppressing the poor. He tells the ruler that his worship and offerings are worthless so long as he continues to act unjustly. Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream. — Amos 5: 23-24 Mercy for the poor In the New Testament, justice is turned into freely given love and mercy for the poor. Those who arrive to work in the vineyard at the last hour are paid as much as those who have worked all day. Those who are sitting at the lowest places at the feast will be promoted to the best seats. Even the greatest sinners are welcomed and included because they are capable of loving the most. Jesus turns the people’s perception of ‘poverty’ on its head: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven… Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. — Matthew 5: 3-6 Jesus points not only to a future happiness in heaven, but also to a spiritual fulfilment achieved now because of the honest relationship that the poor have with Him. Preference for the poor It seems that Jesus prefers the company of the poor and the outcasts and he calls his disciples to imitate him. When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbours, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous. — Luke 14:12-14 8 Catholic social teaching principles featured in the units of work:

PREFERENTIAL PROTECTION FOR THE POOR AND VULNERABLE We need to find ways to help those who are poor, vulnerable, or less able than ourselves. We must protect them as part of our human family.

HUMAN DIGNITY Every person is valuable to Creator God, whether they are men or women, boys or girls, old, young, of any race or , rich or poor, healthy or sick, or people with disabilities. Every person has mana and is worthy of our respect.

SOLIDARITY We belong to one big human family – one whānau. We need to support each other, no matter where we live in the world, so that everyone can live peaceful, happy and useful lives.

STEWARDSHIP We do not own the land, the seas or the sky. We are kaitiaki. We must care for the world so that all people who come after us can live well too. We need to share the water and food from this earth with the whole human family. How is God inviting us to respond to these principles?

For more information see Fact Sheet 5: CST in action

In the present condition of global society, where injustices abound and growing numbers of people are deprived of basic human rights and considered expendable, the principle of the common good immediately becomes, logically and inevitably, a summons to solidarity and a preferential option for the poorest of our brothers and sisters. Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, #158

9 key messages and values

We belong to different God looks on us all with mercy Life in Cambodia is closely All humanity should cultures. Each culture is and love and we are called to connected to land and land enjoy the same basic special and important. show this same mercy to others. rights are currently under human rights. Whakamanahia ngā Whakaaroha Compassion threat from actions such Ngā tika tangata tikanga ā-iwi Aroha Love as illegal logging. Human rights Valuing culture Reconciliation Ngā tika ki te whenua Justice for the environment We can advocate for Indigenous cultures need We can use our talents to build Kaitiakitanga others so that they to be supported and have up the reign of God. Guardianship receive what they need their rights protected. Whakamahia o tātou pūkenga to live. Manaakitanga Using our talents Achieving food security Tūmanako Hope Supporting others Even if we don’t have very much is an important goal for Manaakitanga we can still share what we have. local farmers in developing Supporting others Young people from very countries like Cambodia. different communities Pono Faith Whakawhanaungatanga He kai mō te katoa value the same things Food for all yet experience life in Community different ways. Looking after the earth and looking after the poor go hand in hand. Tika Justice Māia Courage

Refer to the New Zealand Curriculum and Taking The High Ground: Virtues And Values In Catholic Schools for more information on applying these values.

The ecclesial nature of the Catholic school is reflected in its educational activity ‘in which faith, culture and life are brought into harmony’. The Catholic Education of School-Age Children, New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, #9, 2014 10 Caritas aotearoa new zealand

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is the Catholic agency for justice, peace and development – an official agency of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference. We work in partnership with impoverished communities throughout the world, and through advocacy and education for justice here at home in Aotearoa New Zealand. Currently we are working in the Pacific, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Central and Latin America. Many challenges face our partners, Caritas and other agencies who accompany them in international development over the next decade. In this resource, learners will explore how we are working with communities to help them adapt to the impacts of climate change and enhance their food security. We will also highlight ways in which local communities are supported to maintain sustainable livelihoods, despite dealing with adverse issues that endanger their basic human rights and right to a safe and secure environment.

For more information on Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand see Fact Sheet 1

The Catholic Agency for Justice, Peace & Development

11 Caritas in Cambodia

For more than 10 years, Caritas has worked in partnership with DPA to help and support some of the poorest and most marginalised people in Cambodia – particularly indigenous people who are subsistence farmers. During the last three years, with support from the New Zealand Government, we have helped poor farmers grow enough food to feed their families and have a surplus that they can sell for income. We have helped some of these farmers to form co-operatives, and provided equipment, such as rice mills, so they can add value to the food they grow and thereby demand a much higher price for it at the market. Caritas has provided wells, water filters and toilets, so families have access to safe water and so they can maintain a more hygienic environment. The people in these communities face many other challenges to their survival and wellbeing. Two of the biggest challenges they face are logging (cutting down trees in the surrounding forests) and land-grabbing (which often goes hand-in-hand with logging). Sometimes these activities are carried out with official sanction and sometimes they DPA profile are done illegally (with officials turning a blind eye for the right price). Either way, the indigenous people of Cambodia miss out on reaping the benefits and they are directly Name: Development and Partnership in Action (DPA) affected by the destruction of their natural environment. Type: A Cambodian non-government organisation (NGO) Not only are they losing their land and access to its natural resources, but these activities History: Active in Cambodia for over 30 years result in severe disruption to normal weather patterns. For example, evaporation of water from forests generates rain clouds, which in turn provides water for crops. When thousands Vision: For all Cambodians to enjoy a high quality of life as of hectares of forest are cleared, this reduces the amount of rainfall in that area, resulting full citizens: accessing, using and protecting their in long periods of drought. Caritas and DPA are responding to these issues by providing rights irrigation equipment and teaching techniques like drip irrigation to help farmers survive Action: Tackling issues including leadership capacity, the periods of drought they are experiencing. gender equality, natural resource management, But this is not enough. We are also health and education, and food security helping indigenous communities to Emerging Issues: Starting to work on issues including climate change gain legal titles to their customary and the impacts of extractive industries land, so they can oppose these Result: Poor and vulnerable Cambodians are empowered environmentally destructive activities and supported to improve livelihoods through at the highest level. By protecting their greater access to rights and resources, increased surrounding forest, they can at least ownership, improved capacity for participation, partially safeguard their area against increased community resilience, active leadership of drought. women and youth, and improved management of Through all these activities, Caritas and food security, health, education and natural resources. DPA are equipping the people in these vulnerable communities to create a safer, more resilient and healthy For more information about the work environment for their families. of DPA go to www.dpacam.org 12 key statistics people

Country: Kingdom of Cambodia Cambodia’s population is more than three times that of New Zealand. Capital: Indigenous Cambodians make Language: Khmer up less than three percent of the Ethnic breakdown: 90% Khmer, 5% Vietnamese, population and comprise around 24 3% indigenous groups and 2% other different groups. Caritas is involved in projects with a number of the Population: Approximately 16 million larger groups including the Kreung, Currency: Riel (currently 2,822 riels to 1NZD) Bunong, Tampuan, and . Religion: 97% Buddhist, 2% Muslim and 1% other The Khmer ethnic group makes up the vast majority of the population King Norodom Sihamoni (since 2004) Leaders: (about 90%). Other ethnicities Prime Minister Hun Sen (since 1985) represented in Cambodia include Area: 181,035 km2 (Compared to New Zealand’s 268,021 km²) Vietnamese, Chinese and other groups. Temperature: Between 24°C and 39°C Only 20% of Cambodians live in towns and cities. The majority of the people (80%) live in rural areas in village communities. There is a close connection to both land and nature, and villagers are reliant on farming and fishing for their livelihoods. Children commonly work hard within their families, helping at home and on the farm. In 2001, the percentage of children between the ages of 5–14 years who were working was 39%. In fact, over 1.3 million children are engaged in some form of work. As of 2012, approximately 2.66 million Cambodians were living on less than $1.20 per day, and 37% of Cambodian children under the age of five were suffering from chronic malnutrition. Cases of bacterial diarrhoea and typhoid caused by drinking unclean water are common. There are many land-mine victims in Cambodia. Millions of mines were laid by the Khmer Rouge, the Vietnamese and government forces, which have led to thousands of deaths and disabilities since the 1980s. CAMBODIA In 2013, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Cambodia was 75,200. Although the prevalence of HIV/AIDS has reduced recently, this is still among the highest in Asia. The spread of HIV has been largely due to the sex trade within Cambodia. Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand For more information about Cambodia see Fact Sheet 2 13 curriculum links

Achievement objectives Links to the Liturgical Year module – Lent, Holy Week, Ash Wednesday

Y4 RE R ecognise that Jesus respected tapu in people Y1-2 by exercising tika-justice, pono-integrity, and Religious Education achievement objectives: Jesus aroha-love. Christ - Hēhu Karaiti strand, Sacraments strand and Church - Community of Disciples strand. Y4 RE R ecognise that as members of the Church, people are called to carry out its mission of Y1 RE D evelop an understanding about how God service. can be discovered in the world which God created and gifted to people, to care for and Social Science achievement objectives: Y7-8 enjoy. L2 SS Understand how cultural practices reflect Religious Education achievement objectives: God- Y1 RE Develop an understanding about belonging, and express people’s customs, traditions and Te Atua strand and Jesus Christ-Hēhu Karaiti strand. participating and celebrating in communities. values. Y7 RE Develop an understanding that God’s desire Y2 RE R ecognise that Jesus showed love and respect for all is happiness and fullness of life on earth Y5-6 and, especially, life with God in heaven. for people in many ways. Religious Education achievement objectives: The Y2 RE R elate the ways Jesus showed love to the ways Church strand and God-Te Atua strand. Y8 RE Develop an understanding of how Jesus is an advocate for the poor, the weak, the powerless people show love today. Y5 RE Recognise that members of the Catholic and those without mana; and how this Church are called to believe in God and with Social Science achievement objectives: challenges Christ’s followers today to bring the help of the Holy Spirit to build up the about justice-tika and peace-rangimarie in the L1 SS Understand how belonging to groups is Kingdom or Reign of God-Te Rangatiratanga world. important for people. ‘on earth as it is in heaven’. Y8 RE D evelop an understanding of Jesus as Risen L2 SS Understand how cultural practices reflect Y6 RE R ecognise how people use their gifts for the Lord. and express people’s customs, traditions and mission of the Church. values. Social Science achievement objectives: Social Science achievement objectives: Y3-4 L2 SS Understand how time and change affect L4SS Understand that events have causes and Religious Education achievement objectives: Jesus people’s lives. effects. Christ - Hēhu Karaiti strand. L3 SS Understand how people make decisions about L4SS Understand how people participate Y3 RE R ecognise how people who belong to the access to and use of resources. individually and collectively in response to are called to believe in Jesus community challenges. and carry on his mission: worshipping God and serving, loving and helping others.

14 Topic 13C Ethics and Ethical Issues: Through the Y9-10 Y11 study of Church teachings and the general application Religious Education achievement objectives: Religious Education achievement objectives: of Catholic ethics, students will consider moral issues Topic 9E Creation and Co-Creation: Consider own and Topic 11B Conscience, Morality, Values: Having a from a Catholic perspective. others’ continuing creativity in relation to that of God. soundly based system of values as a basis for living. AS90826: Analyse the response of a religious tradition Emphasis on Christ’s values as being the appropriate Topic 9G Recognising signs of God: Recognise that to a contemporary ethical issue. ones for Christians to live by. God reveals himself to the world through signs and Social Science achievement objectives: symbols, through the Church and in ordinary things Social Science achievement objectives: and people. L7 SS Understand how communities and nations L6 SS Understand how different groups and meet their responsibilities and exercise their Topic 10A Discovering Our Identity: Belonging gives institutions work to promote social justice and rights in local, national, and global contexts. us a unique identity. The concept of life as a journey with human rights. others and the responsibility we have for one another. L8 SS Understand how ideologies shape society Geography achievement objectives: Topic 10E Inspiring Men and Women: Recognise what and that individuals and groups respond it means to be an inspiring man or woman and identify L6 Geography Understand how people interact with differently to these beliefs. men and women in our own time who fulfil this role. natural and cultural environments Geography achievement objectives: and that this interaction has Social Science achievement objectives: consequences. L7 Geography Understand how people’s perceptions L5 SS Understand how the ideas and actions of of and interactions with natural and Y12-13 cultural environments differ and have people in the past have had a significant Religious Education achievement objectives: impact on people’s lives. changed over time. Topic 12B Justice and Peace: Through the study of L8 Geography Understand how people’s diverse L5 SS Understand how people’s management of Scripture, Church statements and other documents, values and perceptions influence the resources impacts on environmental and explore justice issues relevant to contemporary society environmental, social and economic social sustainability. and culture. decisions and responses that they L6 SS Understand how individuals, groups and AS90822: Explain how a contemporary social action make. institutions work to promote social justice and derives from the ethical principles of a religious human rights. tradition [6 credits]. Geography achievement objectives: L6 Geography Understand how people interact with natural and cultural environments, and that this interaction has consequences. 15 primary y1-2 lesson plans EVERY CULTURE IS SPECIAL

WEEK 1 Lent Begins WEEK 2 culture and history WEEK 3 food and water

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Recognise that this is a special year to celebrate God’s love • Share a few greetings in Khmer • Compare Cambodian and New Zealand food • Understand that God loves us no matter what • Identify the flag of Cambodia • Understand why rural communities in Cambodia need to drink filtered water R Starter R Starter In Misericordiae Vultus, the Pope’s document on the Jubilee of Ask students if they have heard of Cambodia. List down R Starter Mercy, Pope Francis says, what they know and what they want to find out. Explain that Introduce Sopee and Lun who are from rural villages in God never tires of reaching out to us. He is always ready to Cambodia will be the focus during Lent this year. Cambodia. There are no supermarkets where they can buy food. They rely on the food that they can grow. listen. b Discussion B Story and discussion Explain that people value their way of life (their culture); ✎ Activity Read with your students the ‘Story of the Prodigal Son’ in including their country, food, music, clothing, sports and Show students two photos from the picture pack: Luke 15: 11-32. After reading the story ask: flag. Ask students what is special to them about the way they #2 – cooking lunch at home What does the father do when he sees his son coming home? live? #3 – family dinner Is he angry with his son? K Worksheet 1 – Cambodia flag b Discussion What do you like about this story? Show the students the flag of Cambodia www.cambodia. Ask focus questions on photos from the picture pack. ✎ Activity org/facts/Cambodia_flag.gif and give out Worksheet 1 for Have students think about such things as what Sopee and them to colour in the flag and other cultural images. The Draw pictures of parents ‘reaching out’ or hugging their Lun use to heat food. How is the way that Sopee’s family eats blue represents royalty, red is for the nation, and white for children, or adults ‘listening‘ to children. different from the way that their families eat? religion with the temple in the middle. Students What are some foods that Sopee probably never eats? Complete the statement, ‘When someone I love hugs me or can glue the flags into their books or you could set up a class listens to me I feel ______’ display for Cambodia. H Video b Discussion H Video Watch A day in the life of Sopee and ask students to look out for food that Sopee eats and how she uses water. Remind students that Lent is a time for remembering Watch the Greetings from Cambodia video a couple of times how much God loves us. The ashes we receive at the Ash and get students to repeat the greetings out loud. K Worksheet 2 – Be careful what you drink Wednesday Mass or liturgy remind us that we want to love Look at the photo of Lun getting water from the water filter. God. ✎ Activity Why does he need a water filter? Get students to repeat a greeting after you and then say in g Class Activity Why is it that we can drink water straight from a tap? English what it means. Challenge the students to use one or Display the Lent Calendar explaining to students that they two of these each day for the first term. The worksheet shows four different ways that Lun can get will carry out actions during Lent to help them grow closer water. Put a circle around the way that is safe, and a cross ? Reflection to God. Choose one or two actions to highlight as you through the ways that are not safe. introduce it to your students. Show students the six photos from the picture pack and explain that the class will be looking at them over the next ? Reflection few weeks. Ask students to think about what is happening in Do we sometimes grumble because we are bored with each photo and to find anything different from life here. what has been cooked for us? How can we show that we are grateful for the food our families give us?

16 WEEK 4 human rights WEEK 5 land rights WEEK 6 holy week

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Reflect on what they are thankful for • Understand that people in different countries do things • Identify events leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection • Identify how school is different in Cambodia differently • Understand that our actions can make a difference • Make a judgement about the effort involved in different R Starter/Re-cap types of farming ✎ Activity Ask students to share what they remember learning from the On the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, last lesson about the day in the life of Sopee and food and R Starter complete one or two primary school Holy Week: Stations of water in Cambodia. Students will see that almost all aspects of life in rural the Cross activity cards as a class, which will prepare students Cambodia are different from their own ways of doing things. ✎ Activity for the Holy Thursday Liturgy. Explain to students that the way people do things is part of Get students to close their eyes and think of at least five their culture. H Video things they are thankful for (e.g. school, parents, friends Students can view Laudato Si’ animation (Primary). etc…). Get them to move around the room and point to ✎ Activity With the class, discuss ways they can help to care for the what they enjoy about school and their classroom. Write Look at three photos from the picture pack: earth. some of the common responses down. #4 Life in the village H #5 Family work after school Holy Thursday Liturgy S View PowerPoint #6 Home and animals Students engage in the liturgy for Holy Week centred on Look at the School in Cambodia PowerPoint and get students the Stations of the Cross. Use Holy Week: Stations of the Cross to respond to the questions posed. b Discussion PowerPoint. Discuss the focus questions on each photo. K Worksheet 3 – Life at school What is happening in picture #4? ? Reflection After viewing the PowerPoint about school life in Cambodia, What are the children doing to help? Review what the students have learnt during Lent about the get students to complete Worksheet 3 that requires them to Do you help at home? What are some of the things you do? challenges of living in Cambodia. Look at the photos again draw images of school life in Cambodia and at your school. How does Sopee help to grow food? from the picture pack and see if students can explain what is b Discussion What are the animals that people in her village have? happening. Ask students how they would feel if they could not go to K Worksheet 4 – Who works harder? S View PowerPoint school? What would they do for the rest of the day if they Look at the picture of the hand tractor on the worksheet. Watch the Caritas helping in Cambodia PowerPoint to see finished school before lunch? How do farmers in New Zealand plough their fields? how Caritas and a local organisation, DPA, are helping local Prayer Why do New Zealand farmers and Cambodian farmers use Cambodians. Take the time as a class to pray for the children in Cambodia different machinery? Who works harder? $ Making a Difference – those at school and those that do not have a chance to Colour the picture of the plough and tractor that New Count up the donations made in the koha boxes throughout enjoy the benefits of education. Zealand farmers use. Lent and send the money in to Caritas to help work for a world free of poverty and injustice in countries like ? Reflection Cambodia. Is one way of farming better than another way? What is good about the Cambodian way of farming? Prayer What is good about the New Zealand way? Choose one or two of the prayers in this booklet to use this Which way of farming creates the most pollution? week for class prayers. 17 Y1-2 laudato si’ links

Quote #1: We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family. (#52) Quote #2: The disappearance of a culture can be just as serious, or even more serious, than the disappearance of a species of plant or animal. (#145) Connection: Pope Francis reminds us that we are all connected – part of one big family. As in all families, we are all very different too. Our own cultures are very special to us and Pope Francis highlights that losing our connection to our culture would be worse than an animal becoming extinct. We must value human life and care for each other. In Week two we will look at culture and its importance to each of us.

Y1-2 jubilee of mercy connection

Quote #1: Just as [God] is merciful, so we are called to be merciful to each other. (#9) Quote #2: God never tires of reaching out to us. He is always ready to listen. (#19) Scripture: Luke 6:36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Challenge: We know that God loves each of us as His own special creation. Even when we make mistakes, God is always there and is merciful to us. We are challenged to show the same mercy to others as God shows to us. During Lent we have the opportunity to think of others and remember the people of Cambodia who are not always as fortunate as ourselves.

18 Y3-4 laudato si’ links

Quote #1: … replace consumption with sacrifice, greed with generosity, wastefulness with a spirit of sharing … a way of loving, of moving gradually away from what I want to what God’s world needs. (#9) Quote #2: All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own … talents. (#14) Connection: Throughout Lent this year we are challenged to live simply and to think of others. Pope Francis reminds us that we are created by God with talents and we can work together with these talents to look after creation. He challenges us to live selflessly and to think of others rather than just focusing on ourselves and what we want. In many of the lessons during Lent this year, we will be comparing the life experienced by Cambodians with our own. We will have opportunities to pray for people in need – a chance to share our time and look beyond ourselves.

Y3-4 jubilee of mercy connection

Quote #1: Jesus asks us to forgive and to give… be generous with others. (#14) Quote #2: God’s anger lasts but a moment, His mercy forever. (#21) Scripture: John 13:34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. Challenge: We know that God is always merciful – He is forever considerate and caring towards His own creation. Jesus was the best example of this love and he challenged us to love each other in the same way that he showed His love for us. During Lent this year we will consider how we can make a difference for the people of Cambodia – how we can show both love and mercy.

19 primary y3-4 lesson plans SHARING IS CARING

WEEK 1 Lent Begins WEEK 2 culture and history WEEK 3 food and water

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Recognise that this is a special year for experiencing God’s • Discover more about the country and • Discover more about farming co-operatives love and caring for others • Create prayer flags and discuss their relevance • Reflect on the importance of sharing what we have • Understand that God always wants to have a friendship R Starter R Starter with us Ask students what they know about Cambodia and the Khmer In 2013 Caritas Internationalis launched the One Human R Starter culture. List down what they know and what they want to find Family, Food for All campaign. It aims to increase our In the Pope’s document introducing the Jubilee of Mercy, he out. Ask students to consider what some of the differences awareness of hunger and looks at ways of improving food says, may be with life in New Zealand? (e.g. temperature, land, security for everyone. Ask the class if they know what food Jesus asks us to forgive and to give ... (to) be generous with others. food, music, language, clothing, sports and religion). Point out security might mean (e.g. ongoing access to healthy food). Cambodia on a globe, map or Google Earth. b Discussion S View PowerPoint Talk with students about the call to love others – choosing S View PowerPoint Look at the PowerPoint Growing food together and find out to put others before ourselves. Are there ways that we can Look at the Cambodia PowerPoint to discover new how people in Cambodia are working together and sharing change so that we can focus more on the needs of others. information about the country and the culture. Challenge what they have. Perhaps the challenge is not to worry so much about what students to share three new facts they have learnt about b Discussion we have, but think about what we can share. Cambodia with their neighbour. How does having their own milling machine help the village B Story H Video to save money? Why is it helpful that the machine is shared Read John 13:34, then ask the questions: Watch the Greetings from Cambodia video a couple of times by everyone in the village? The villagers are not rich, but they What is Jesus asking us to do? How can we show this love to and get students to repeat the Khmer greetings out loud. shared their seed, land and water with Mrs Sok Lane. Why do others? you think they did this? ✎ Activity B Story H Attend your school’s Ash Wednesday Mass or liturgy Get students to repeat a greeting after you and then say in Think about who you can show love towards. Who might be English what it means. Challenge the students to use one or Read the parable of ‘The widow’s mite’ in Luke 21:1-4. alone and needing to be loved? two of these each day for the first term. Why is the widow’s donation so much greater than the donations of others? g Class Activity b Discussion K Worksheet 6 – The widow’s offering Introduce the Lent Calendar. Choose a few activities to Ask students about how they think God hears our prayers. highlight to students as you put it somewhere on display for Show the students an image of prayer flags and explain that Ask students to complete Worksheet 6 in response to the students to see. Challenge students to attempt an activity at they are used in Cambodia and other Buddhist countries. parable that was just read in class. home this week that will show the students’ willingness to K Worksheet 5 – Prayer flag instructions ? Reflection love others and be generous with how they share and care Do I have to be rich to share things with others? for others. Give out Worksheet 5 to help guide the students in the creation of their own prayer flag. Follow the instructions What can I share with others right now? (including pocket and then display the prayer flags in the class or hang them money but also friendship, toys, a smile, etc.) Write up a class outside if it is possible. list together of all the things that could be shared at home, school, and with friends. Prayer S View PowerPoint Discuss some of the prayers that students wrote on their Watch Caritas helping in Cambodia to see how Caritas and a prayer flags. Take time to pray these out loud as a class. 20 local organisation, DPA, are helping local Cambodians. WEEK 4 human rights WEEK 5 land rights WEEK 6 holy week

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Define what poverty means • Understand why land is so important to villagers in • Reflect on the events leading up to Jesus’ death and • Identify the challenges of life in Cambodia Cambodia resurrection R Re-cap • Find out how people are protecting their land • Understand that our actions can make a difference to our Ask students to share what they remember learning from R Starter world and to others the last lesson about Cambodians working together and the Explain to students that many people in Cambodia live in ✎ Activity widow’s story. Has anyone had success sharing with others rural areas and depend on what they can grow on their land On the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, since the last lesson? and what they find in their forests for survival. complete three or more primary school Holy Week: Stations ✎ Activity K Worksheet 8 – The land is our food basket of the Cross activity cards, which will prepare students for the Say the word ‘poverty’ to the class and ask them to explain what Holy Thursday Liturgy. Give out Worksheet 8 to students and work through the they understand about this word. Write down a simple definition Video like ‘When the basic needs for food, water, clothing, and shelter are activities together. Look at the map of a typical Cambodian H not being met.’ Tell the class that around 20% of Cambodians live village. Students can view Laudato Si’ animation (Primary). in poverty. Another 20% are just above the poverty line. What is most of the land used for? Discuss ways that people have harmed the earth. Discuss ways that we can better care for the earth. H Video What do the villagers find in the forest? How are the forests in danger? H Watch A day in the life of Sopee and get students to look for Holy Thursday Liturgy examples of challenges that Sopee and her family face. ✎ Activity Students engage in the liturgy for Holy Week centred on the Draw a sketch of the suburb you live in. Include your school, Stations of the Cross. Use the Holy Week: Stations of the Cross K Worksheet 7 – Life in Cambodia and New Zealand PowerPoint. After viewing the video about Sopee get students to complete church, shops and houses. Is there very much land used for Worksheet 7 that requires them to draw images comparing life growing food? ? Reflection in Cambodia and New Zealand. b Discussion Review what the students have learnt during Lent about the work of Caritas and the challenges of living in Cambodia. Set ✎ Activity People in villages in Cambodia depend on their land to grow their food. Where is your food grown? How does your food goals for the rest of the year around how they can continue Get students to close their eyes and imagine they live with sharing to show love for others. Sopee in Cambodia as her brother/sister. Talk through some get to you? of the activities seen in the video so that the students can see If students are unsure then they could ask at home or try to $ Making a Difference themselves in their own minds. Get them to open their eyes find out through other sources. Count up the donations made in the koha boxes throughout and share how they felt. Lent and send the money in to Caritas to help work for a world ? Reflection free of poverty and injustice in countries like Cambodia. Prayer What would it be like to live in a rural village far away Take the time as a class to pray for the people of Cambodia from shops? What do you think you would learn by living (including Sopee) that they will overcome the challenges they this way? Which way of life does the least harm to the face daily. If you have time add some of these prayers to the environment? prayer flag display from week two. ? Reflection Lead the class in a discussion to decide if there are some ways (apart from money) that Sopee and her family are rich. How do we know this? 21 primary y5-6 lesson plans LET’S BUILD UP GOD’S KINGDOM

WEEK 1 Lent Begins WEEK 2 culture and history WEEK 3 food and water

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Recognise that this year is the Jubilee of Mercy in the Church • Discover more about the country and culture of Cambodia • Explain the methods of traditional land use common in • Understand the concept of mercy • Understand the basics of Buddhism and create a lotus flower rural Cambodia • Appreciate how these methods respect natural cycles R Starter R Starter Pope Francis put out a document last year called Ask students what they know about Cambodia and the Khmer R Starter Misericordiae Vultus. In it he sets out the Church’s teaching culture. List down what they know and what they want to find In his latest encyclical Laudato Si’ Pope Francis says the earth, about God’s mercy. He says, out. Ask students to consider what some of the differences may ‘…our common home, is like a sister with whom we share our Wherever there are Christians, everyone should find an oasis of be with life here? (e.g. temperature, land, food, music, language, life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us.’ mercy. clothing, sports and religion). Point out Cambodia on a globe, map (#1) People who depend on the land for their survival know or Google Earth. Investigate how long it would take to fly there. how important it is to respect the land. b Discussion Ask students to consider what an oasis is. Together you may S View PowerPoint S View PowerPoint come to the understanding that an oasis is a place where people Look at the Cambodia PowerPoint to discover new information Show the class the PowerPoint Food from the land. Students in the desert can rest and find water during their journey. about the country and the culture. Challenge students to to note the ways in which the land and forest provide food share five new facts they have learnt about Cambodia with a for the people and the people protect the natural world. Ask students what they think mercy could be defined as. classmate. Mercy involves forgiving someone even when he/she doesn’t b Discussion Video deserve it. H What do Sopee’s family get from the land? And from the forest? Watch the Greetings from Cambodia video a couple of times How do they protect the land? And the forest? ✎ Activity and get students to repeat the Khmer greetings out loud. Brainstorm some ideas and create a poster about, K Worksheet 11 – Traditional land use Activity ‘How we can create an oasis of mercy at our school.’ ✎ Students can complete the missing parts of the cassava H Get students into pairs to practise their greetings together. production cycle diagram and answer the related questions. Attend Ash Wednesday Mass or liturgy Challenge the students to use these throughout the term. Lent is a time to stop at the oasis of God’s mercy. What is the purpose of having different ceremonies at Discussion b planting and harvest times? At the school liturgy encourage students to reflect on how Ask students to name other world . Find out what much God wants them to come and sit at his oasis of love students know about Buddhism – the main . ? Reflection and mercy. Encourage students to set a goal during Lent. Do we in New Zealand respect the cycles in nature? Or do K Worksheet 9 – Buddhism basics Remind them that small actions such as thinking of others or we want to eat blueberries all year round?! What can happen giving up something make a big difference and help to build Using Fact Sheet 11, work as a class through Worksheet 9 to when people lose respect for nature? up God’s Kingdom on earth. find out about some of the key beliefs and facts of Buddhism. P Game K Worksheet 10 – Lotus flower creation g Class Activity Play the simulation game at 3rdworldfarmer.com and get Introduce the Lent Calendar to the class. Highlight a few of Give out Worksheet 10 to help the students create their own lotus students to reflect on the cycles of nature and how farmers the upcoming days’ actions to get students interested. Ask flower. Students could be encouraged to give their flower to a and their families rely on the land. them to consider actions that they could do to show love friend/family member or the class could create a display wall. S View PowerPoint and mercy at home and at school during Lent. Prayer Watch the Caritas helping in Cambodia PowerPoint to see As a class, write down short prayers for friends and family as well how Caritas and a local organisation, DPA, are helping local as for the people of Cambodia and the challenges they are facing. Cambodians. 22 These prayers could be collected, displayed or kept by students. WEEK 4 human rights WEEK 5 land rights WEEK 6 holy week

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Consider health issues in New Zealand and Cambodia • Find out about the threats to forests in Cambodia • Reflect on the events leading up to Jesus’ death and • Identify the challenges of life in Cambodia • Understand that building up the Kingdom of God includes resurrection protecting the environment • Understand that our actions can make a difference to our R Re-cap world and to others Quickly go over the connection between people and nature R Starter discussed in the previous session. In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis says, ‘…the gravest effects of all ✎ Activity On the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, ✎ Activity attacks on the environment are suffered by the poorest.’ (#48) complete three or more primary school Holy Week: Stations Get students into small groups and give each group a different This is illustrated very clearly when we look at what effect of the Cross activity cards, which will prepare students for the image of life in Cambodia from the picture pack. Students are deforestation has on indigenous communities. Holy Thursday Liturgy. asked to re-enact the picture in a freeze frame for the class to S View PowerPoint guess what is being shown to them about life in Cambodia. H Video View the PowerPoint Community forests. Students can view Laudato Si’ animation (Primary). b Discussion H Video Discuss ways that people have harmed the earth. Explain to the class that they will soon see images of a There is also the video, Land rights and forest patrols, in which Discuss ways that we can better care for the earth. This may Cambodian girl’s life. Get students to predict how life in New connect with ideas from the previous lesson’s reflection. Zealand and Cambodia are different. Cambodians are interviewed about the impacts of illegal logging. This has subtitles and may be difficult for Y5-6 to follow. H Holy Thursday Liturgy H Video b Discussion Students engage in the liturgy for Holy Week centred on the Watch A day in the life of Sopee and get students to find Stations of the Cross. Use the Holy Week: Stations of the Cross Who is carrying out the illegal logging? (Large lumber examples of challenges that Sopee and her family face. PowerPoint. companies are ultimately responsible for the illegal logging, K Worksheet 7 – Life in Cambodia and New Zealand but they are paying local people or even local government ? Reflection After viewing the video about Sopee get students to complete officials to actually cut down the trees). Review what the students have learnt during Lent about the Worksheet 4 that requires them to draw images comparing life work of Caritas and the challenges of living in Cambodia. in Cambodia and New Zealand. What are the forestry committee trying to do to stop it? Why are they so worried about it? (The forest environment Re-visit some of the goals the students may have set for ✎ Activity provides people with many items they need to survive). building up God’s Kingdom and protecting the environment. Ask students to investigate what some of the health concerns Making a Difference K Worksheet 13 – Micro-climates $ are for children in Cambodia. This could be a homework task Count up the donations made in the koha boxes throughout Students can complete Worksheet 13 and consider the or an inquiry in class. Lent and send the money in to Caritas to help work for a world following questions: free of poverty and injustice in countries like Cambodia. K Worksheet 12 – Health wordsearch How do trees affect the climate? Students can complete the wordsearch by highlighting How much water does a small forest put into the the health issues that are experienced in New Zealand and atmosphere? Explain why the destruction of a forest changes thinking of others that Cambodians experience. the local climate. Prayer ? Reflection Take the time as a class to pray for the people of Cambodia As a class, brainstorm some possible actions that students (including Sopee) that they will overcome the challenges they could do at school and home to protect the environment face including those related to health and sanitation. Write and to build up God’s Kingdom on earth. What is one step up Sopee’s name and display in class and ask students to add we can each take this year to look after God’s creation? 23 prayers through the week. Y5-6 laudato si’ links

Quote #1: The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. (#21) Quote #2: …we know that approximately a third of all food produced is discarded, and ‘whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor. (#50) Connection: Pope Francis highlights the fact that so much food is wasted each year. So much of this could have been given to those who needed it most, but instead it is left to pollute our planet. We are challenged to change our approach to life to build up God’s Kingdom by thinking of others and their needs and simplifying our own life to care for our common home. In lessons three and four we will explore how people in Cambodia live simply and how they value their land and the food that they grow.

Y5-6 jubilee of mercy connection

Quote #1: Wherever there are Christians, everyone should find an oasis of mercy. (#12) Quote #2: This Jubilee Year should also be a … moment to celebrate and experience God’s mercy. (#17) Scripture: Psalm 146: 7-9 [The Lord] executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free; the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous. The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin Challenge: God’s kingdom on earth becomes a reality when God’s will is done. We celebrate God’s mercy during the Jubilee Year of Mercy, recognising that He is always on the side of the oppressed and vulnerable. We also remember that Jesus calls us to ‘let our lights shine’ (Matthew 5:16) so we can also be the oasis of mercy that Pope Francis refers to. During Lent this year we can show mercy by becoming that oasis and by letting our light shine, pointing to a loving Creator.

24 Y7-8 laudato si’ links

Quote #1: … the earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone… every ecological approach needs to incorporate a social perspective which takes into account the fundamental rights of the poor and the underprivileged. (#93) Quote #2: …we are called to be instruments of God our Father, so that our planet might be what he desired when he created it and correspond with his plan for peace, beauty and fullness. (#53) Connection: Pope Francis points out the connection between caring for the environment and looking out for the poor and vulnerable. After creation, God intended the earth to be enjoyed by everyone equally. However, over time the gap between the rich and poor has widened. We are reminded by Pope Francis that we are God’s instruments to make a difference – to stand up for the poor and to be responsible in the way we live. In this unit we explore the lives of Cambodians and how Caritas is working to ensure they are supported and their rights are protected.

Y7-8 jubilee of mercy connection

Quote #1: This is the opportune moment to change our lives! ... it is the time to listen to the cry of the innocent people who are deprived of their property, their dignity, their feelings, and even their very lives. (#19) Quote #2: As we prepare to leave this life, we will be judged on the basis of love. (#15) Scripture: Isaiah 58:10 If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday. Challenge: We can choose to make a stand for the poor and vulnerable during Lent this year. Let us show love and mercy towards people in need in our own communities and to those we have never met around the world (including those living in Cambodia).

25 primary y7-8 lesson plans BEING ADVOCATES FOR THE POOR

WEEK 1 Lent Begins WEEK 2 culture and history WEEK 3 food and water

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Recognise that this year is the Jubilee of Mercy • Explore the life and culture of Cambodia • Iden tify adaptations that Cambodian farmers are • Understand that mercy involves reaching out to the poor • Compare Buddhism, Animism and Christianity making to reduce the impact of climate change on food production Starter R Starter R • Explain ways in which DPA advocates for poor Get students to share what they know about life in Cambodia In the document Pope Francis wrote to introduce the Jubilee communities to help them achieve food security of Mercy (Misericordiae Vultus) he said, and the country itself. List down what they want to find out also. This is the opportune moment to change our lives! ... it is the Ask students to consider what some of the differences may be as R Starter time to listen to the cry of innocent people who are deprived of compared to life in New Zealand? (e.g. temperature, land, food, Development and Partnership in Action (DPA) is a their property, their dignity, their feelings, and even their very music, language, clothing, sports and religion). Get students to Cambodian organisation that aims to help poor farmers lives. (#19) point out Cambodia on a map or using Google Earth. improve the reliability of their food production (this is called food security). Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand provides Story and reflection S View PowerPoint B funding to DPA to help them in their work. Read the story of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke 16:19- Look at the Cambodia PowerPoint to discover new information 31. Ask students to consider who are the people at our door about the country and the culture. Challenge students to share six S View PowerPoint that need our help? new facts they have learnt about Cambodia with their neighbour. View the PowerPoint Food security in Cambodia. H Video/Activity s Focus K Worksheet 15 – With the poor and for the poor Watch the Greetings from Cambodia video a couple of times During this season of Lent students will have the opportunity Find out about techniques that Cambodian farmers are and get students to repeat the Khmer greetings out loud and to learn about the needs of people in Cambodia who learning to use to increase food production. Find out about with a neighbour until they can do it with confidence. struggle to grow enough food for their families and to have what being an advocate for the poor is all about. an income so their children can go to school. H Video ? Reflection Watch A day in the life of Sopee and get students to consider her ✎ Activity Is there someone I can advocate for who has a limited ability daily routines in comparison with those faced in New Zealand. Introduce the Lent Calendar to your students. Display the to protect his or her own rights and needs? This could be a poster somewhere in the class and point out some of the b Discussion younger sibling or a younger student in the playground who upcoming actions to get students interested. Show the Talk with the class to find out: is being bullied. students how to see each day’s action on the Caritas website. a) What aspects of Sopee’s life are very different? P Game Challenge students this Lent to participate in actions which b) What are the daily routines we share in common? help those around them and those in Cambodia. c) Could you imagine yourselves living in Cambodia? Play the simulation game at 3rdworldfarmer.com and get d) What would you find it hard to live without? students to reflect on the life of farmers in poor communities H Attend Ash Wednesday Mass or liturgy who rely on land for their livelihood and struggle with food Encourage students to make a personal commitment during K Worksheet 14 – Buddhism, Animism and Christianity security issues. the liturgy to do something extra during Lent to help the Using Fact Sheet 12, work as a class through Worksheet 14 to people of Cambodia. This could mean pledging to give a compare beliefs and practices of Buddhists, Animists and Christians. certain amount of their pocket money to the Caritas appeal Prayer each week, or committing to pray for the work of Caritas in As a class, create a prayer wall and write down short prayers Cambodia every day during Lent. for friends and family as well as the people of Cambodia and the challenges they are facing. Encourage students to add prayers during the term. 26 WEEK 4 human rights WEEK 5 land rights WEEK 6 holy week

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Understand how Caritas supports Cambodians • Understand the Catholic social teaching (CST) principle • Reflect on the events leading up to Jesus’ death and • Discuss how co-operatives can empower Cambodians preferential option for the poor and vulnerable resurrection R Re-cap • Appreciate the value of land to indigenous peoples • Understand that our actions can make a difference to our Quickly revise the impacts of climate change and the R Starter world and to others adaptations used by Cambodian farmers from last time. DPA believes in working in solidarity with vulnerable ✎ Activity b Discussion communities in rural Cambodia. These communities have On the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, If your students were part of a group promoting justice, peace lived on the same area of land for centuries but they don’t complete three or more Intermediate Holy Week: Stations of and development (like Caritas) what would their slogan be? have anything on paper to prove their ownership. DPA and the Cross activity cards, which will prepare students for the Share these within the class (e.g. working for a world free of Caritas are helping rural villages obtain land titles so their Holy Thursday Liturgy. poverty and injustice). rights to their land can be legally recognised. H Video K Worksheet 16 – Caritas and DPA in Cambodia H Video Students can view Laudato Si’ animation (Primary) Read the information in Worksheet 16 about how Caritas and Watch the video, Land rights and forest patrols, with the Discuss ways that people have harmed the earth. DPA work together to support Cambodians. Students can class and hear Chanti Nheav and others speaking about the Discuss ways that we can better care for the earth. complete the cloze activity. problem of illegal logging and how it affects local villagers. H Holy Thursday Liturgy ✎ Activity S View PowerPoint Students engage in the liturgy for Holy Week centred on the Get students into four smaller groups and give each group the Show the students the PowerPoint, Community forests, Stations of the Cross. Use the Holy Week: Stations of the Cross task of demonstrating to the class one unique way that DPA before leading the class in a discussion about the issue of PowerPoint. and Caritas supports local Cambodians. Groups could act out illegal logging. a short role play or use freeze frames. ? Reflection b Discussion Review what the students have learnt during Lent about the P Game Why is it difficult for the villagers to protect their forest from work of Caritas and the challenges of living in Cambodia. Get Play the Co-ops in Cambodia game. The aim is to make as illegal loggers? students to write down one way to challenge themselves to much money as possible because each player will need to be advocates for the poor. Share possible ideas together. provide for their family and survive through adverse events K Worksheet 17 – Claiming what is ours like droughts and floods. Get students to complete Worksheet 17 and examine the $ Making a Difference b Discussion questions: How is DPA helping indigenous villagers to have Count up the donations made in the koha boxes throughout more control over their traditional land? What is land title? Ask students to pretend that they are no longer in a game but Lent and send the money in to Caritas to help work for a world actually live in Cambodia and are concerned with the success ? Reflection free of poverty and injustice in countries like Cambodia. of their production and co-operatives. Get the class to share Reflect on this Māori whakataukī (proverb) about the how they feel and their concerns. significance of land to its people: Prayer Manaakitia te whenua, manaakitia te tangata In pairs, students can write a prayer for the people of Care for the land, care for the people Cambodia and remember some of the difficulties that local Ask students to re-phrase this into their own words. farmers experience. The support from Caritas and DPA and the impact of the co-operatives can be considered too. Prayers can be added to the prayer wall set up earlier in the unit. 27 primary y9-10 lesson plans WORKING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

WEEK 1 Lent Begins WEEK 2 culture and history WEEK 3 food and water

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Recognise that this year is the Jubilee of Mercy • Compare Cambodian culture and life with our own • Explore the Caritas Internationalis Food for All campaign • Understand that mercy involves working for the good of • Describe challenges facing Cambodians • Iden tify the ways in which farming co-operatives in others – especially those who are disadvantaged R Starter Cambodia reflect the values of Catholic social teaching R Starter Find out what students already know about Cambodia. Write R Starter In his document, Misericordiae Vultus, Pope Francis speaks of up all the thoughts to add to as the unit continues. Ask if there In a recent speech Pope Francis challenged all Catholics to ‘set the Jubilee of Mercy, a year in which... is anything that students want to especially find out. a table for all’ and to ‘ask that there be a table for all’. He said Jesus asks us to forgive and to give ... (to) be generous to others. ✎ Activity there are one billion people in the world who are hungry. How Give students the chance to find out the answers to the can we make sure that everyone has enough to eat? ✎ Activity questions they had about Cambodia and to check on their prior K Worksheet 18 – Set the table for all Read what Jesus says from Luke 6:37-38. Ask students: knowledge. See the list of useful websites later in this booklet. What should our giving be like? Go to www.food.caritas.org. What are the five aims of the How generous will God be to us? H Video Caritas Internationalis Food for All campaign? Complete the Who are the people that we can give to? Watch Life in the village for Lun Nee and get students to write worksheet that looks at the campaign. down notes in two columns: (1) Interesting things that stand out g Class Activity for them; and (2) Any differences to their own lifestyle/culture. S View PowerPoint Introduce the Lent Calendar to students. Browse through the Watch the PowerPoint, Farming Co-operatives in Cambodia, and b Discussion calendar and remind students that there is the poster and get students to discover how co-operatives help local Cambodian the website formats. Identify the many ways that students Students can share their notes with each other after watching farmers to provide for each other and their own families. can choose to ‘give’ to others during Lent. Encourage the video. Then give the class the opportunity to share as a b Discussion students to choose at least one suggested action per week group and write down the key findings. Add any new facts on to complete. the original brainstorm from earlier. What Catholic social teaching (CST) principles are shown by the ✎ Activity villagers in the farming co-operative? Are there food co-ops H Attend Ash Wednesday Mass or Liturgy here in New Zealand? Why is it that we don’t have more here? Go to www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/NZ/KH and allow Encourage students to use this opportunity to think about students to find out more about the huge differences to life in P Game the ways they might be able to give to others during this New Zealand and Cambodia. Some of these statistics could be Play the Co-ops in Cambodia game. The aim is to make as Liturgy. Challenge them to make a prayerful commitment to written and displayed somewhere for students to remember. these actions. much money as possible because each player will need to ? Reflection provide for their family and survive through adverse events ? Reflection for RE Classes Students can read Fact Sheets 2 and 12 on Cambodia and religion like droughts and floods. Is there a particular way that your RE class might be able and ask them to consider the challenges of living in Cambodia. ? Reflection to give to the people of Cambodia this Lent. Consider participating in the Caritas Challenge or have a koha box in Prayer Consider Mahatma Gandhi’s words: ‘The world has enough for the classroom. As a class, pray for the people of Cambodia. This could be everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.’ inspired by written points, previous discussions or the earlier How can I personally move away from focusing on what I want reflection on challenges faced by Cambodians. to what the world needs? How do I move from self-centredness to generosity? % Action What is one practical thing that I can do for those who are less Think of ways to promote justice for Cambodians from here in well-off than myself? New Zealand. 28 WEEK 4 human rights WEEK 5 land rights WEEK 6 holy week

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Define human rights and identify examples • Understand the Catholic social teaching (CST) principle of • Reflect on the events leading up to Jesus’ death and • Explain how Cambodian human rights have been stewardship resurrection threatened and promoted • Reflect on what the loss of a forest can mean to a community • Understand that our actions can make a difference to our R Starter R Starter world and to others Get students to discuss a definition of human rights and ask if Pope Francis wrote in Laudato Si’, ✎ Activity they can identify any. There are different views on what rights ‘the earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are On the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, human beings should be given. However, the UN’s Universal meant to benefit everyone… ‘. (#93) complete three or more secondary Holy Week: Stations of the Declaration of Human Rights outlines 30 rights that every Get students to share with their neighbour what they imagine Cross activity cards, which will prepare students for the Holy human being should be entitled to. Unfortunately, many face when hearing this. What fruits are being referred to by the Pope? Thursday Liturgy. a breach of human rights on a daily basis. Rights in Cambodia H Video will be the lesson’s focus. H Video Watch Land rights and forest patrols. Students will hear from Students can view Laudato Si’ animation (Secondary). Video Chanti Nheav and others speaking about the problem of H Discuss ways that people have harmed the earth. illegal logging and how it affects local villagers. Watch A Story of Human Rights from the www.humanrights. Discuss ways that our new digital world is affecting our com website: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh3BbLk5UIQ S View PowerPoint relationships. K Worksheet 19 – Human rights in Cambodia View the Community forests PowerPoint to see more images of How can we make positive lifestyle changes which will After watching the video, A Story of Human Rights, ask the the challenges faced by Cambodian villagers and the strategies protect our earth and our relationships with each other? they are employing to ensure their land rights are maintained. students to complete the worksheet questions. H Holy Thursday Liturgy ✎ Activity b Discussion Students engage in the liturgy for Holy Week centred on the As a class read Fact Sheet 14: A short history of human rights in What motivates those involved in illegal logging? Why is it Stations of the Cross. Use the Holy Week: Stations of the Cross Cambodia before having a class discussion. difficult for the villagers to stop them? PowerPoint. b Discussion K Worksheet 20 – Community land rights ? Reflection How is DPA working for social justice for vulnerable rural Review what the students have learnt during Lent about the Look at the Caritas summary of the Universal Declaration of communities? How are the local people demonstrating work of Caritas and the challenges of living in Cambodia. Human Rights on page 2 of Fact Sheet 14. Ask students to stewardship of their ancestral lands? What do the people Encourage students to set an achievable goal to be part of compare and contrast the human rights they identified on their obtain from the forest? What would happen if all the tall trees making a difference for social justice and standing up for worksheet with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. no longer existed? human rights for all. Using Fact Sheet 3: Caritas in Cambodia, students can answer the rest of the questions on the worksheet about human ? Reflection and Prayer $ Making a Difference rights in Cambodia. Reflect on this Māori whakataukī (or proverb) about the Count up the donations made in the koha boxes throughout significance of land to its people. ? Reflection Lent and send the money in to Caritas to help work for a world free of poverty and injustice in countries like Cambodia. Mahatma Ghandi said, ‘be the change you want to see in the Ka mate te whenua, ka mate te tangata; world.’ Every human being has the power to ensure other Ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata. people are treated with respect and dignity and their human If the earth dies, the people die, rights are upheld. Challenge students to set a goal to be a part If the earth lives, the people live. of the change they want to see. As a class, pray for Cambodians whose land rights are threatened. 29 Y9-10 laudato si’ links

Quote #1: …countries which have clear legislation about the protection of forests continue to keep silent as they watch laws repeatedly being broken. (#142) Quote #2: New forms of cooperation and community organization can be encouraged in order to defend the interests of small producers and preserve local ecosystems from destruction. Truly, much can be done. (#180) Connection: In this unit we explore the challenges faced by Cambodians in protecting their rights to land and even their most basic human rights to food, water and work. Pope Francis reminds us of the corruption that allows forests to be unjustly claimed. He also highlights the strength that can be found in small local groups coming together in co-operatives. This very response is highlighted in the lessons, as we look at how Caritas and DPA are supporting local communities in Cambodia to successfully develop their own co-operatives.

Y9-10 jubilee of mercy connection

Quote #1: Mercy will always be greater than any sin, and no one can place limits on the love of God who is ever ready to forgive. (#3) Quote #2: Jesus asks us to forgive and to give … (to) be generous with others. (#14) Scripture: Micah 6:8 [He] has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Challenge: The people of Cambodia endured great pain and injustice during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Many continue to suffer as their rights to land and their own human dignity are threatened. The possibility of victims showing mercy can be hard to comprehend after experiencing such intense suffering, however God’s love can overcome any injustice. During Lent this year we will consider these injustices, but remember the mercy of God and our own challenge to do justice, to love kindness, and remember forgiveness.

30 Y11 laudato si’ links

Quote #1: …while the existing world order proves powerless to assume its responsibilities, local individuals and groups can make a real difference. They are able to instil a greater sense of responsibility, a strong sense of community, a readiness to protect others, a spirit of creativity and a deep love for the land. They are also concerned about what they will eventually leave to their children and grandchildren. These values are deeply rooted in indigenous peoples. (#179) Quote #2: We know how unsustainable is the behaviour of those who constantly consume and destroy, while others are not yet able to live in a way worthy of their human dignity. (#193) Connection: Pope Francis reveals two extremes: those who consume without any concern for life and the environment, and others who live in community and responsibly care for creation. Tangata Whenua in Aotearoa and indigenous people in other parts of the world are deeply connected with their environment and demonstrate this care for creation. In this unit we look at village communities in Cambodia and see the challenges that these people face in protecting their rights to land and to life. We are left with the challenge of how we will respond.

Y11 jubilee of mercy connection

Quote #1: Do not fall into the terrible trap of thinking that life depends on money and that, in comparison with money, anything else is devoid of value or dignity. (#19) Quote #2: This Jubilee Year should also be … a moment to celebrate and experience God’s mercy. (#15) Scripture: Luke 15:11-32 [The Parable of the Prodigal Son] Challenge: Like the prodigal son in the parable, we are faced with the temptation to follow our own selfish desires and forget about those around us. When things go wrong we also have the opportunity to admit we made the wrong decision and ask for forgiveness from our friends, family and God. We are challenged to value what is right and just. As we consider the lives and struggles of people in Cambodia we must remember to show love and mercy by valuing solidarity, human dignity and the common good.

31 secondary y11 lesson plans VALUES THAT PROTECT LIFE

WEEK 1 Lent Begins WEEK 2 culture and history WEEK 3 food and water

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Recognise that this year is the Jubilee of Mercy • Describe the negative impact of the Khmer Rouge on the • Describe the impact of climate change on food production • Understand the links between mercy and life lives of many Cambodians in Cambodia • Discover the lifestyle of rural Cambodians • Identify attitudinal changes that are required for the Caritas Starter R Internationalis Food for All campaign to be successful At the beginning of the Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis wrote a R Re-cap document called Misericordiae Vultus. He writes, Students can reflect on the goals they set for themselves for R Starter ‘Do not fall into the terrible trap of thinking that life depends on Lent. Are they planning to do something this year that will Development and Partnership in Action (DPA) is a Cambodian money and that, in comparison with money, anything else is have a positive impact on the lives of others? organisation that aims to help poor farmers improve the devoid of value or dignity.’ (#19) b Discussion reliability of their food production (this is called food security). Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand provides funding to DPA to Reflection Ask students to list the names of leaders and organisations that ? help them in their work. Recall the values or principles of Catholic social teaching. have threatened the lives of people over the last century (e.g. See www.caritas.org.nz/who-we-are/cst. Mercy is defined as Hitler, ISIS…). Has anyone heard of the Khmer Rouge? H Video compassion or forgiveness towards someone else. In what H Video View the video Adapting to climate change and hear about the impacts of climate change on Cambodian farmers and the ways do the CST principles reflect the value of mercy? How Watch Khmer Rouge Remembered and ask students to share does the value of mercy link to using money? How can we be their response. For more information on the Khmer Rouge need to adapt to these effects. good stewards of our material wealth? watch John Pilger’s Year Zero – The Silent Death of Cambodia at b Discussion ✎ Activity www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpZz5I_ylo. How have DPA staff members trained Phea Dim and other Ask students to make a list of the ten most important things (Note: This video is 52 minutes in length and has graphic scenes). Cambodian farmers to adapt their farming methods to the that they value. Compare lists and get students to look at b Discussion changes in climate? where money was ranked on their lists. Now get the students What aspects of Cambodian life and culture were threatened (or K Worksheet 21 – Food for all to list three things that money cannot buy. destroyed completely) during the reign of the Khmer Rouge? List Complete the worksheet to investigate the findings of the s Focus aspects of your culture that you value and would seek to protect. Caritas Internationalis food study report. During this season of Lent, consider what your class could do H Video ? Reflection to support the work of Caritas in Cambodia. Check out Fact Watch Life in the village for Lun Nee and ask students to look out Sheet #3 (students will see this in detail in week four). Reflect on attitudes which keep people poor.... for aspects to Cambodian culture that are similar and different ‘...we know that approximately a third of all food produced is to life in New Zealand. In this instance any financial support can go a long way. How discarded, and “whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were might your class encourage others to also fundraise for Cambodia? b Discussion stolen from the table of the poor”.’ (Laudato Si’ #50) H Attend Ash Wednesday Mass or Liturgy What values are important to you? What values do you think What can we do in our own lives and within New Zealand Encourage students to make a commitment during the Liturgy are important to Lun Nee and his family? What values were not to minimise the impacts of climate change and over to be less concerned about their own material wants during protected during the time of the Khmer Rouge? consumption? Lent, so that they can give some of what they have or earn to What do we learn from the actions of the Khmer Rouge? What do we learn from observing Lun Nee and his family? Prayer others. Perhaps they could be encouraged to set a specific goal. Share prayers as a class (either written or spoken) for ? Reflection Cambodians who struggle to have enough food to provide for Write down the three most important values in your life. Look their families and communities. 32 at this list during Lent and be challenged to live up to them. WEEK 4 human rights WEEK 5 land rights WEEK 6 holy week

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Define human rights and identify examples • Discuss the link between land and culture • Reflect on the events leading up to Jesus’ death and • Explain how Cambodian human rights have been • Understand the importance of land title for indigenous resurrection threatened and promoted groups in Cambodia • Understand that our actions can make a difference to our R Starter R Starter world and to others What are human rights? Every culture, religion and country Rural Cambodian communities have little defence against ✎ Activity may have different views on what rights human beings should international companies wishing to log their forests or mine On the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, be given. However, the United Nations created a document illegally. DPA and Caritas are supporting these communities to complete three or more secondary Holy Week: Stations of the that encapsulated a universal standard for human rights in the stand up for their rights to ancestral lands. Cross activity cards, which will prepare students for the Holy ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ that outlines 30 rights H Video Thursday Liturgy. that every human being should be entitled to. Unfortunately, Watch the video, Land rights and forest patrols, as Chanti Nheav many face a breach of human rights on a daily basis. Breaches H Video and others talk about the threats to their land. of human rights in Cambodia will be the lesson’s focus. Students can view Laudato Si’ animation (Secondary). b Discussion Discuss ways that people have harmed the earth. H Video How might the loss of land lead to the loss of culture? Discuss ways that our new digital world is affecting our Watch A Story of Human Rights from the www.humanrights. In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis recently wrote, relationships. com website: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh3BbLk5UIQ ‘The disappearance of a culture can be just as serious, or even How can we make positive lifestyle changes which will K Worksheet 22 – Human rights in Cambodia more serious, than the disappearance of a species of plant or protect our earth and our relationships with each other? animal.’ (Laudato Si’ #145) After watching the video, A Story of Human Rights, students H Holy Thursday Liturgy can complete the questions on the worksheet. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Students engage in the liturgy for Holy Week centred on the ✎ Activity ✎ Activity Stations of the Cross. Use the Holy Week: Stations of the Cross As a class, read Fact Sheet 14: A short history of human rights Have a class debate with the resolution ‘The disappearance of PowerPoint. a culture is worse than the loss of a species of plant or animal’. in Cambodia. Look at the Caritas summary of the Universal ? Reflection Declaration of Human Rights on page 2. Ask students to Encourage students to challenge other views and listen to the Review what the students have learnt during Lent about the compare and contrast the human rights they identified on their views of others. work of Caritas and the challenges of living in Cambodia. worksheet with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. K Worksheet 23 – The universal destination of goods Making a Difference ✎ Activity Students can complete Worksheet 23 and reflect on quotes $ Using Fact Sheet 3: Caritas in Cambodia, students can answer from indigenous chiefs about the importance of land. Count up the donations made in the koha boxes throughout Lent and send the money in to Caritas to help work for the rest of the questions on the worksheet about human ? Reflection rights in Cambodia. a world free of poverty and injustice in countries like Over 400 years before Christ, Euripides said the following : Cambodia. ? Reflection What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land. ✎ Activity Mahatma Ghandi said, ‘be the change you want to see in the Ask students to imagine that their own land that they call world.’ Every human being has the power to ensure other home was destroyed or damaged beyond repair. How would As a final activity, get students to list three values that they people are treated with respect and dignity and their human they feel and what would they do? would like to be remembered as demonstrating during their lives. Ask them whether these values protect life. rights are upheld. Challenge students to set a goal to be a part Prayer of the change they want to see. As a class, pray for those who have lost the land they call home. 33 secondary y12–13 lesson plans ONE HUMAN FAMILY, FOOD FOR ALL

lesson 1 lesson 2 lesson 3 One Human Family, Food for All Justice for the poor What does the Church have to say about food security? Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Learning Intentions • Learn about the Caritas Internationalis Food for All campaign • Understand that the Catholic social teaching (CST) Students will: • Define the term ‘food security’ principle of preferential option for the poor comes from • Identify encyclicals of the Church which make direct scripture R Starter reference to care and help for developing nations • Identify the link between a stable society and justice for • Find out what the Church in New Zealand has to say about In December 2013 Caritas Internationalis (an organisation to the poor food security which Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand belongs) launched its • Apply CST principles to methods of co-operative farming One Human Family, Food for All campaign. in Cambodia R Starter From Understanding Faith 12B: Justice and Peace read pp ✎ Activity R Starter 22-23 taking particular note of encyclicals which refer to our Direct students to the website www.food.caritas.org. Caring for the poor is a common scriptural theme, both in responsibility towards developing nations. Find out the five aims of the campaign. the Old and New testaments. In fact, the bible contains over 2,100 references to caring for the poor. In the Old Testament ? Laudato Si’ Reflection Find out what percentage of the world’s population has full there is a strong correlation between justice for the poor and View the PowerPoint Laudato Si’: Care for our common home. food security. Israel’s flourishing. When the rulers of Israel forget about the What does Pope Francis have to say about care for the earth Go to www.food.caritas.org/hands-on-ways-to-beat-hunger/ poor, their nation becomes vulnerable to foreign invasion. and care for our common home? Time and time again God tells them to amend their ways and and read the article by Laura Sheahen. List some of the ways H Video – Laudato Si’ animation (Secondary) ‘let justice flow’ if they want to be safe in their land again. that Caritas is helping small farmers around the world. Watch this short animation about the Pope’s encyclical and b Discussion ✎ Activity compare the key messages with those identified after viewing What does the term ‘food security’ mean? Read from Understanding Faith 12B: Justice and Peace and responding to the PowerPoint. (pp 7-14, particularly ‘The stages of the cycle of Baal’ on p 11). S View PowerPoint K Worksheet 24 – Food is a human right View PowerPoint Watch PowerPoint, Food Security in Cambodia, and students S In 2012 the New Zealand Catholic Bishops put out a statement can note the definition of food security and the three main Watch the PowerPoint Farming Co-operatives in Cambodia called The Hunger in our Midst. Go to www.catholic.org.nz threats to achieving it. (Y9-10). Explain ways in which the Trapeang Chres and type this title into the search box. Read the article then Co-operative demonstrates a ‘just’ approach to farming. complete the worksheet. ? Reflection Activity Reflection Pope Francis has declared this year as a Jubilee of Mercy. He ✎ ? says, ‘Just as (God) is merciful, so we are called to be merciful to List the CST principles that you see reflected here, Reflect on the CST principle of Universal Destination of Goods: each other.’ particularly in the story of Mrs Sok Lane. Explain how each The earth and all it produces is intended for every person. Private principle is shown in this story. ownership is acceptable but there is also a responsibility to Mercy is about reaching out in compassion to others. ensure all have enough to live in dignity. If we have more than we How might students live this out during Lent as individuals need, there is a social obligation to ensure that others do not go and as a class in relation to the people of Cambodia? without. How about joining the Caritas Challenge?!

34 Y12 lessons to prepare students for AS 90822: Explain how a social action derives from ethical principles of a religious tradition Find more details for AS 90822 Y13 lessons to prepare students for AS 90826: Analyse the response of a religious tradition to a contemporary ethical issue at www.caritas.org.nz lesson 4 lesson 5 lesson 6 Adapting to climate change Caritas partnership with DPA holy week

Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Learning Intentions Students will: Students will: Students will: • Understand issues impacting on food security in Cambodia • Understand how Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand works in • Discuss the wider implications of the Church’s message on • Recall farming techniques that help to mitigate the effects partnership with DPA in Cambodia in a spirit of subsidiarity concern for the hungry of climate change • Learn about DPA’s work in assisting rural communities to • Make a personal commitment to help those who struggle obtain land titles to have enough to eat R Re-cap Remember that the three main causes of food insecurity are R Re-cap R Starter lack of resources, low agricultural productivity and climate DPA stands for Development and Partnership in Action. DPA Caritas Internationalis launched its One Human Family, Food change. believes in working in solidarity with vulnerable communities for All campaign in December 2013. in rural Cambodia. H Video – Adapting to climate change H Video Go to www.food.caritas.org and click on ‘Watch Pope Francis’s View the video Adapting to climate change and hear about the ✎ Activity video message’. It is in Italian (but has subtitles). What does impacts of climate change on Cambodian farmers and the Go to their website www.dpacam.org the Pope say about Caritas Internationalis? What are some need to adapt to these effects. How does their motto, ‘With the poor and for the poor’ reflect CST principles? Click on ‘Funding Partners’. You will notice that facts that horrify the Pope? What is ‘authentic co-operation with the poor’? What does he mean when he asks us to b Discussion DPA has many partners as well as Caritas. Why is this? Can you become ‘more conscious of our food choices’? What would happen to local Cambodian farmers if there were relate this to the concept of subsidiarity? no agencies like Development Partnership in Action (DPA) to b Discussion ✎ Activity assist them? Pope Francis says, We cannot look away and pretend that this A Caritas New Zealand staff member regularly visits Caritas- ✎ Activity doesn’t exist. What are the wider implications of the Pope’s funded projects in Cambodia. Read the story of Mrs Sokvanny message for all Christians and all who believe in the dignity of Brainstorm any CST principles that you can see DPA staff Hou and how DPA is helping her through their integrated human life? What scripture passages are used to back up the demonstrating. Think of preferential option for the poor, community development programme: www.caritas.org.nz/what- Pope’s message? subsidiarity, solidarity and human dignity. Discuss how you we-do/newsroom/stories/improving-food-security-cambodia see these in action. ✎ Activity H Video Return to www.food.caritas.org and click on ‘What you can do’. For help remembering the CST principles go to Watch the video, Land rights and forest patrols, as Chanti Nheav Choose one or more options and make a commitment to help www.caritas.org.nz/who-we-are/cst and others talk about the threats to their land. those who struggle to have enough to eat. Compare student ideas with Fact Sheet 5 that outlines how S View PowerPoint H To prepare for Holy Week Liturgy each CST principle is lived out through the work of Caritas and Look at the PowerPoint Community forests. This is for primary age View the Laudato Si’ animation (Secondary) and reflect: DPA in Cambodia. students but may clarify for seniors the problem of illegal logging, Discuss ways that people have harmed the earth. the need for forest patrols and the importance of land titles. Discuss ways that our new digital world is affecting our relationships. How can we make positive lifestyle changes which K Worksheet 23 – The universal destination of goods will protect our earth and our relationships with each other? Complete Worksheet 23 looking at the CST principle of the H Holy Thursday Liturgy universal destination of goods and how it relates to indigenous land rights. What similarities do you see between Cambodian Students engage in the liturgy for Holy Week centred on the efforts to obtain land titles and Māori efforts to obtain Stations of the Cross. Use the Holy Week: Stations of the Cross compensation for land taken unjustly from them? PowerPoint. 35 Y12-13 laudato si’ links

Quote #1: …the earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone… every ecological approach needs to incorporate a social perspective which takes into account the fundamental rights of the poor and the underprivileged. (#93) Quote #2: Climate change is a global problem with grave implications: environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods. It represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day. Its worst impact will probably be felt by developing countries in coming decades. Many of the poor live in areas particularly affected by phenomena related to warming, and their means of subsistence are largely dependent on natural reserves and ecosystemic services such as agriculture, fishing and forestry. They have no other financial activities or resources which can enable them to adapt to climate change or to face natural disasters, and their access to social services and protection is very limited. (#25) Connection: In his message about caring for our common home, Pope Francis continually points to the fact that climate change is having the most destructive impact on the poor who rely on natural resources for food and livelihoods. In this unit, lessons are structured around the achievement standard AS 90822 in which students are invited to consider the Catholic social teaching principle of ‘Preferential Option for the Poor’. In what ways are Caritas and DPA assisting the poorest Cambodians to achieve food security?

Y12-13 jubilee of mercy connection

Quote #1: This is the opportune moment to change our lives! ... it is the time to listen to the cry of the innocent people who are deprived of their property, their dignity, their feelings, and even their very lives. (#19) Quote #2: Just as [God] is merciful, so we are called to be merciful to each other. (#9) Scripture: Psalm 146:7-9 [The Lord] executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free; the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous. The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. Challenge: This is an opportune moment for us to engage in actions which will improve the lives of others. Just as God stands alongside those who struggle in life, so we can stand with those who are overlooked or oppressed. The poorest people of Cambodia need the help of others in order to be able to maintain their livelihoods and protect their land. Young New Zealanders may choose to support rural communities in Cambodia by participating in the Caritas Challenge. In this Jubilee of Mercy, the giving of time and money is an expression of solidarity.

36 CHALLENGING ALL YOUTH! The Caritas Challenge is a nationwide, 24-hour event for schools and youth groups in New Zealand. It offers hands-on experiences that are fun and informative, while raising funds and providing an opportunity for young people to experience some of the challenges faced by those living with poverty and injustice. In 2016 the focus will be on Cambodia, where people face real challenges as a result of poverty and injustice.

Launch Weekend 1-2 April 2016 Events happening throughout New Zealand 1 April – 15 May 2016

Join us to stand in solidarity with those living in poverty and injustice around the world.

MOVE IT LIVE IT SWEAT IT STOP IT For more information contact: [email protected] or 0800 22 10 22 WWW.CARITAS.ORG.NZ/CARITAS-CHALLENGE prayers FOR PRIMARY

Focus: Children of Cambodia Focus: Environment Ngā Tamariki o Kamapōtia Te Taiao Adapted from Laudato Si’ E te Atua kaha rawa, Almighty God, E te Atua o te aroha, we give You thanks for Your endless love. God of love, show us our place in this world Thank You for our time as children, as channels of Your love a time to grow and learn. for all the creatures of this earth, Thank You for the fun and laughter, for not one of them is forgotten when we enjoy life and people. in Your sight. Focus: Mercy Focus: Human Rights We remember the children of Cambodia. Open the eyes of those Te Atawhai Ngā Tika Tangata who have power and money, May Your love be ever present, that they may love the common good, E te Ariki, E te Ariki o te taiao, so they may enjoy their childhood, and think of everyone, Lord of mercy, Lord of Creation, that all may have a chance to learn at school. advance the weak, hear our prayer. we praise You for Your love and compassion. May every child enjoy enough food and care for this world in which we live. and water to help them grow. We thank You for loving us as we are. Thank You for all that we have. We pray that they will stay healthy The poor and the earth are crying out. For promising to forgive us, Enjoying peace in New Zealand. and that they may be loved O Lord, seize us with Your power and light. even when we hurt others. Enjoying the food and water we have. and kept safe in their families. Help us to protect all life, Enjoying learning in schools. to prepare for a better future, Help us to remember others. E te Matua, for the coming of Your Kingdom of justice, To show mercy as You do. We pray for the many people throughout the God, great parent of all, peace, love and beauty. To feed the hungry. world who miss out on education, Remember the children of Cambodia. To provide for those who are thirsty. that they may grow and develop. Amen. Whakamoemititia te Atua, To give clothes to those in need. For those who live without a home, Praise be to You! To help the homeless. that they may find comfort and shelter. Amen. To pray for the sick. For those who go hungry, To remember those who are alone. that they will find food. To think of those who have lost loved ones. For those without access to safe clean water, that they may have their thirst quenched. E te Ariki, For those without clothing, Help us to be Your hands of mercy in the that they may find warmth and be covered. world. For those without a family, Whakarongo mai ki tō mātou karakia, that they may be loved and Listen to our prayer. find a place where they belong. Amen. E te Atua, God of us all, Whakarongo mai ki a mātou, Hear our prayer. Amen.

38 Focus: Thanksgiving Focus: Goal 3 - Good health Focus: Goal 6 - Clean water and well-being and sanitation Whakamoemiti O God, God, who brought water out of the rock. Thank You for the bees. We thank You for the gift of life. God, who quenched the thirst of those dying in Thank You for the trees. We thank You for the nourishment the wilderness. Thank You for our families You provide us with every day God, who in Jesus, gave us living waters. That we love. so we can lead a healthy life Help us to act responsibly in our use of water, Thank You for the sun above. in body, mind and spirit. to become aware of the desperate needs of Help us to overcome greed. those without water, Thank You for all the clothes we have. Help us to understand and gain wisdom in conserving water, We are happy, thankful and glad. that happiness and joy do not necessarily so that the rivers flow out in justice among all come from riches or material wealth, nations and peoples. Thank You for our beautiful world. Short reflective prayers based on the but from the freedom we have Thank You for making us. United Nation’s Sustainable Development and our relationship we form with You Amen. Goals (SDGs): as we strive to build a community of justice, Amen. love and peace. Adapted from the World Council of Churches, Focus: Goal 1 - No Poverty www.oikoumene.org. Kayano (aged 7) Today we pray for everyone who is trapped in Amen. poverty and feels hopeless and helpless. Lord we know that You always hear the cries Adapted from a prayer by Bartholomew Shaha, Focus: Goal 7 - Affordable and clean Focus: Prayer for Peace in Syria of the needy. Bangladesh. energy He Īnoi mō te Rongomau ki Syria Tune our ears too to the cries of the poor all Creator God, the sun, the wind and the waves around us. are Your gifts for the flourishing of the whole Focus: Goal 5 - Gender Equality E te Atua o te rangimārie, Challenge us, inspire us and move us to community of life on earth. God of peace, action so that together we can bring an end Lord, in some countries women do not have Help us to use them creatively to produce Hear the cries of the people of Syria. to poverty in our world. the same opportunities as men. sustainable energy for all. Comfort those who suffer violence. They don’t receive as much education as Console those who mourn the dead. Amen. men. They don’t have the same rights as men. Through scientists, engineers and scholars new Give strength to many countries knowledge comes to light; to welcome the refugees. Adapted from a prayer by Rev. Meg Saunders We give thanks for women all around the May new developments in the production of Change the hearts of those who for World Council of Churches. world who have faced the unknown and sustainable energy protect our fragile planet have taken up arms and fought for the rights of women. and promote the well-being of all creatures. protect those who are committed to peace. Let us remember those women who still Focus: Goal 2 - No hunger struggle to play an equal role in their Amen. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Lord, so many people in this world suffer communities. the Prince of peace and Light of the world. from hunger yet You have created a world full Adapted from a prayer written by Sr. Catherine Amen. of vegetation and food. Amen. Brennan and Sr. Ann Concannon for ‘Churches Help us never to take what we have for Together in Britain’ and ‘Ireland’s Time for Adapted from a CAFOD prayer. granted and show us how we can share what Creation’ resources. we have with others. Help us to eradicate hunger from this world.

Amen. 39 prayers FOR SECONDARY

Focus: Environment Focus: Human Rights Focus: Recovery after the Khmer Rouge Te Taiao Ngā Tika Tangata Whakamātūtū ā-wairua

From Laudato Si’ E te Ariki o te taiao, Lord of all creation, E te Atua kaha rawa, We praise You for Your love and compassion. Almighty God, All-powerful God, Forgive us healer and restorer, for when we have been selfish and only thought of ourselves, We ask for Your spirit of peace to overcome, You are present in the whole universe ignoring the many needs of people around us. Surround all those bearing scars from the past, and in the smallest of Your creatures. For when we have complained about things we don’t have, who have suffered over the years. You embrace with Your tenderness forgetting all the great things we already have in our lives. Focus: The Government and all that exists. Remind us May Your love remove hatred, Leaders of Cambodia how lucky and privileged we are to live in New Zealand, and Your life restore hope, Ngā Kaiarahi o Kamapōtia Pour out upon us enjoying peace throughout the country, that the pain of yesteryear, the power of Your love, enjoying our access to food and water, be replaced with a vision for the future. E te Atua, God of nations, that we may protect life and beauty. enjoying quality education in schools, We pray for the leaders and politicians around Fill us with peace, enjoying freedom to live our own way. We give thanks for the elderly, the world, that we may live as brothers and sisters, Help us for their wisdom and experience, May You guide them in the decisions they harming no one. to make a difference in the lives of others for the guidance they bring, make, who do not enjoy the rights they are entitled to. and the caring embrace they provide. to always remember their people, Your people, O God of the poor, Challenge us that they may put first the common good. help us to rescue the abandoned and to help change unjust systems. Our hearts go out to the people of Cambodia, forgotten of this earth, to the many innocent , We specifically pray for the leaders of so precious in Your eyes. We pray for all: who endured great suffering, Cambodia. God’s children who miss out on education, during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Open the eyes of Hun Sen and the Cambodian Bring healing to our lives, that they may have opportunities for learning and development. Government, that we may protect the world God’s children who live without a home, Help those with enduring nightmares, so they may see the real needs of Cambodians, and not prey on it, that they will find comfort and shelter. to find peace, that they will value love over power, that we may sow beauty, God’s children who live without adequate health and sanitation, to replace the pain with new family memories. that the rights of the people will not be denied. not pollution and destruction. that they can stay clean and healthy. Be close to those who lost loved ones, Help those in the political arena in Cambodia, God’s children who go hungry, to bring restoration amidst the echo of loss. to reject corruption and work for justice. Amen. that they will be sustained and find food. We give thanks for the willingness of the elderly We pray for the King of Cambodia, God’s children without access to safe clean water, to look forward, Norodom Sihamoni, Pope Francis that they may have their thirst quenched. for learning to forgive and move on, that he will work for peace and equality. God’s children without clothing, for the sake of the younger generations and the that they may find warmth and be covered. country as a whole. E te Atua o te rangi me te whenua, God’s children without a family, God of heaven and earth, that they may be loved and find a place where they belong. May Your peace overflow, may Your will be done in Cambodia. so Your love overcomes. Amen. E te Atua o ngā tangata katoa, whakarongo mai ki a mātou, God of us all, hear our prayer. E te Atua kaha rawa, whakarongo mai ki a mātou. Amen. Almighty God, hear our prayer. Amen.

40 Also refer to the liturgies and Stations of the Cross activities and PowerPoints at www.caritas.org.nz

Focus: Climate Change Focus: Land Rights Focus: Living Simply Te Hurihanga Āhuarangi Ngā Tika ki te Whenua He Noho Oranga Manaaki Tāngata

Open our eyes, Lord E te Atua o te taiao, Vision of wholeness God of all creation, God of all, Thank You for the amazing world You created, God of grace, You made the earth and saw that it was good, for the beauty of the stars, Creator of a world of plenty. but like robbers we have stripped it of its and the wonder of the sky, The heavens declare Your glory treasure. We are blessed to live on this earth, and the earth Your generosity. our home, which provides and sustains life. Open our eyes, Lord. In love, You created us Now the earth cries out We thank You for the land where we live. and in Your likeness You made us and Your people hunger and thirst. Help us to show love on our land, to be partners in creation. in our homes, backyards and streets. Open our eyes, Lord. In greed we have turned away Open our eyes to see the pain of Your We remember those around the world who and have marred Your image in us creation have no land. to fashion a fragmented world. and move us with compassion for Your world. who are in search of peace and comfort. Lord of compassion, may you bring them peace. Renew in us Your vision of wholeness Focus: Food Security Open our eyes, Lord. May they find shelter and love from those that the rich may restore wealth to the poor Lead us to act as neighbours around them. and the poor share blessings with the rich. He Kai mō te Katoa who do not pass by on the other side. Our eyes turn to Cambodia, Revive in us a passion for justice E te Atua o te whenua, Open our eyes, Lord. as we pray for farmers who lose their land, that the tyranny of profit be quelled God of the land, so that together we may care where forests are destroyed, and whispers of freedom find voice. for all that You have made and open ground claimed unjustly. We know that one third of the world’s and with all creation sing Your praise. God of justice, may You be present in the politics Refresh in us our sense of calling population faces food insecurity. to bring an end to corruption and selfish greed. that we may follow Christ in serving others Among the consequences of food insecurity are Open our eyes, Lord. Help leaders make the right decisions and live simply with those who simply live. hunger, malnutrition and increased migration. to provide security and transparency to all. Amen. Amen. We pray for countries that face problems of food Lord of restoration, help those who are involved production and food distribution. Catherine Gorman/CAFOD in wrongful acts, Annabel Shilson-Thomas/CAFOD We pray that governments may be concerned such as land-grabbing and illegal logging, for their people and concerned for peace. to realise that what they are involved in is wrong. May non-government organisations like DPA Reveal to them the result of their actions and Caritas continue to support farming to see the pain and suffering for those whose communities as they learn to adapt to climate land is life. change, and provide food for all their people. Bring restoration and forgiveness. Amen. God of creation, may Your will be done. Amen. 41 Relevant websites worth checking out

350 Aotearoa (Climate change movement) www.350.org.nz BBC on Buddhism www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism Cambodian Information Center www.cambodia.org Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand www.caritas.org.nz The Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand www.catholic.org.nz CIA World Factbook www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cb.html Development and Partners in Action (DPA) www.dpacam.org Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/cambodia If it were my home www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/NZ/KH International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs www.iwgia.org/regions/asia/cambodia One Human Family, Food for All food.caritas.org Tourism Cambodia www.tourismcambodia.com United for Human Rights www.humanrights.com United Nations Human Rights www.ohchr.org/EN/countries/AsiaRegion/Pages/KHIndex.aspx World Bank Data data.worldbank.org/country/cambodia World Health Organisation www.who.int/countries/khm/en

References CIA World Factbook, Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, Tourism Cambodia, and World Bank Data 42 Acknowledgements Writing – Michael Stewart, Gemma Sinnott, Esther Robinson and Murray Shearer Editing – Graeme Siddle Development Programmes Co-ordinator – Murray Shearer Caritas Kaihāpai Māori – Taneora Ryall Design – Rose Miller (Kraftwork) Photos – Crispin Anderlini, Murray Shearer, Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Parish (, Cambodia) Drawings – Therese Sinnott We appreciated the great feedback from those involved in Catholic education within Aotearoa to help enhance this resource.

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