As part of LRC320 we have to find vaulabe online educational resources for teachers that we find useful. While searching for these resources I found one that stood out the most called Building Tomorrow. I found this website so intruging because its an international social-profit organization that's working to increase philanthropic activies and awareness of educational inequalities among elementary and middle school aged children. I thought this was wonderful because I had the opportunity to volunteer a lot in high school, but never when I was younger. We did the occasional food drive and things along that nature, but never on a scale such as this. I think its wonderful to not only expose children to the inequalities of the world, but give them realistic ways to help change those injustices.
Teachers can sign up to have their classrooms be a part of Sit for Good-service learning campaign that gives teachers the resources through lesson plans, activitites, discussion topics, fundraising tools and ideas, and background information regarding sub-Saharan Africa needed to teach students about philanthropy and educational inequalities. These resources are provided along with the actual "Sit for Good" activitiy where students give up their desks and classroom resources for a day in order to experience the hardships kids their aged go through with not having the same resources. The classrooms participating in this great program also fundraise in order to help build primary schools for underserve children in sub-Saharan Africa. Builidng Tomorrow is just an overall fantastic program to teach young children empthay and chartiable behavior that will hopefully only increase as they get older. This program is beyond useful because it teaches children that not everyone has the same things as them, to not take those things for granted, and most importantly to give back to those in need.
See for yourself! Building Tomorrow
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