{"id":43644,"date":"2018-01-09T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=43644"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:46:59","slug":"unic-tunis-holds-sdg-themed-writing-workshop-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2018\/01\/unic-tunis-holds-sdg-themed-writing-workshop-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC Tunis holds SDG-themed writing workshop for children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the first day of the school holidays, fifty-two children braved the cold weather – and the temptation to spend a Monday morning at home – to come to the Public Library of Ariana, a town near Tunis, for a writing workshop on the SDGs. They were in for a surprise; the organizers greeted them with an SDG-branded toolkit with pens, pencils, copybooks, stationery and everything they needed to unleash their creativity.<\/p>\n

The event was organized by the United Nations Information Centre (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC) in Tunis with the support of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, the national focal point for the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), and the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Foundation.<\/p>\n

The children, ages 9 to 13, started off the day by watching an\u00a0introductory video<\/a>\u00a0on the SDGs and discussing how sustainable development is relevant to them.<\/p>\n

Next, the children split into groups and raced each other through six thematic stations along the \u201cpath of sustainable development\u201d: (1) ending poverty and reducing inequality; (2) good health; (3) good education and jobs; (4) a world at peace; (5) sustainability; and (6) climate action and healthy ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC Tunis selected 18 December \u2013 World Arabic Language Day \u2013 to hold the workshop. The programme was designed and delivered in Arabic, based on the\u00a0World\u2019s Largest Lesson<\/a>. With help from the IFLA focal point, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC Tunis identified a dream team of educators, composed of two experienced librarians, authors for children, an artist and a school teacher, to make the most of the lesson materials.<\/p>\n

The workshop culminated in a writing exercise in which the children expressed their own views on the SDGs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can fulfil the dream in Tunisia by considering the ideas and the solutions proposed by children and by working together to make Tunisia a better place because we are one nation and we are all brothers and sisters,\u201d wrote one of the young participants in her essay.<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC Tunis may publish the fifty-two essays as a special feature on their website.<\/p>\n

Via Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ iSeek<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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