Guide to exploitation
Aim:
Design a guide to child exploitation to raise awareness among your peers.
You will need:
Internet or library access for research, paper, pens.
Duration:
A few hours for research and design
Design a simple guide to child exploitation. Explain what it is in words that will be meaningful to people your age. Cover topics like child labour, child soldiers and child sexual exploitation.
You can talk to people who are knowledgeable about these topics, look at information in libraries and do research on websites to get the basic facts that you want to put across. Use the links from this website. If you haven't got access to the Internet, keep it local, covering issues that you know about closer to home.
Talk to your friends about the subject and ask what they find most interesting. You might want to make some 'rough notes' while you are trying out ideas.
Write up your notes in a small 'booklet', (by using A4 paper folded over), that can be easily passed around and read. If you can cover the front and back covers with sticky-back plastic this will make it last longer. If you are good at using computers, you could design your booklet on a computer and print it out.
You could undertake a survey of young people's experience of exploitation in your community and include the results in your booklet or some case studies (but don't use the people's real names).
You could share your booklet with your friends and group members, or make extra copies to give away to people.