Materials presented at

1. Grade 12 Global Issues:
Citizenship and Sustainability
SAGE: MSSTA
October 19th, 2012

2. Who we are
• Vision: Manitobans — Working Together as Global Citizens.
• Mission: The Manitoba Council for International
Cooperation (MCIC) is a coalition of organizations involved
in international development who are committed to:
– Respect, empowerment and self-determination for all peoples
– Development that protects the world’s environment
– Global understanding, cooperation and social justice.
MCIC’s mission as a coordinating structure is to promote public
awareness of international issues, to foster member interaction,
and to administer funds for international development.

3. What we Do
• Administer MGMGP for our members
• Development
• Relief and Rehabilitation
• Public Engagement
• Schools
• Community
• Communication
• Capacity Building

4. • Fair Trade Manitoba is a program of MCIC that
seeks to increase awareness of fair trade & the
number of products available in Manitoba
• Consumer guide on
www.fairtrademanitoba.com can help you find
fair trade products in your region!

5. Global Justice Film
Festival
November 4th 2011 (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
Doors open at 6 pm, film showing at 7 pm
November 5th 2011 (University of Winnipeg)
Screening of social justice films
9 am – 5 pm

6. Global Citizenship Award
The Global Citizenship Award recognizes graduating
Grade 12 students.
New this year will be the Global Citizenship Educator
Award for middle school teachers; high school
teachers; or administrators who have helped create a
more just and sustainable world through engaging in
meaningful global citizenship activities.
The deadline for the 2010/11 year is March 23, 2012.

7. Community
Solidarity Fund
The Community Solidarity Fund provides
funding to Manitoba not-for-profit, community
based groups involved in development projects
overseas.
Funds of up to $5,000 available.

8. Global Students/Global Citizens is a quarterly
e-newsletter distributed to hundreds of
teachers throughout Manitoba. The
newsletter is a way for MCIC and its members
to inform teachers about educational
opportunities available to them and their
students.

10. Customized Programs
MCIC staff are available to do
programs on global issues to
your school. We currently have
workshops on:
• Water
• Fair Trade / Child Labour
• Ethical Consumption
• Play Fair: Fair Trade and Sports
• Gender & Education
• Global Food Security
• Sustainable Development Grant Assistance
Contact us to ask about your needs!

11. Exploring the Impacts of Take Action
Projects: Thinking Critically
What are the impacts of our actions at these levels:
• Individual
• Classroom
• School
• Community
• City
• Provincial
• Country
• Global

12. A student hears of a major disaster
and decides to raise money for relief
in the country. They use images
taken during the disaster in their
fundraising. When students donate,
they receive a button to wear that
says, I helped to save [name of
country]

13. A student decides to collect second-
hand clothing to send to a poor
community in another country. They
plan to send the clothing to a school
in the community, where the
clothing will be distributed for free
to the students.

14. Ethical Images
Adapted from Ethical Images: The
South Through the Northern Eye

15. A severely malnourished displaced Somali child is admitted at southern
Mogadishu's Banadir hospital for treatment on August 2, 2011. Warnings
grow that famine could spread across all southern Somalia, but the urgent
action needed to avert that is being hampered as conflict escalates and rebels
maintain a stranglehold on aid. Famine was declared in two Somali regions
last month, but UN humanitarian relief chief Valerie Amos has warned it
could extend across the majority of the south

16. A child is washed by its mother inside the Sayidka IDP
camp in Mogadishu, Somalia on Sept. 6, 2011 (The
Globe and Mail)

17. When asked “When I say to you
‘developing’ or ‘third world’
what comes to mind?”
80% responded with words such as
‘war’, ‘famine’, ‘disaster’,
‘starvation’, and ‘corruption’.
-VSO Study, “The Live Aid Legacy: The Developing World through British Eyes”

18. Canadian Perceptions of International Development:
• No aid can make a difference
• Problems are unsolvable
• “Us” vs. “them” – focus on separateness, no
recognition of interconnectedness
• Superiority of the North as experts
• The South as a charity case
• Poverty as hopeless
• People in developing countries as victims, rather
than agents of their own empowerment /
development
- Nathanson, 2005

19. Pictures of famine victims are often
presented without context and
without the subjects’ names. You
have to think, “would I like my
picture, or my child’s picture, taken
like this?”
-Pete Davis, Oxfam

20. Disaster images rarely portray local
people helping each other.
90% of the people saved are saved by
their neighbours and family, 10% by
people who rush in from round and
about, and about 0.01% by people who
come in from the other side of the
world.
- Tony Vaux, Author of the Selfish Altruist

21. Critical Thinking
When looking at a photograph, ask yourself:
• Who took the photograph? What is their position /
job / role?
• Why did this person take the photograph?
(commercial, personal reasons)
• How is the photograph being used? Who benefits
from the use of the photograph (short-term and
long-term)?
• What message is the photograph meant to convey?
• What message does it convey?

22. We can avoid images that:
• oversimplify / hide diversity
• fuel prejudice
• give an idea of Northern superiority
• show people as hopeless objects for our
pity, instead of equal partners in action
-Adapted from CCIC’s Code of Ethics

23. Visit our website at
www.mcic.ca
(204) 987-6420
youth@mcic.ca