Understanding Poverty and the Impact of Compassionate Giving

These resources are part of the Empathy in Action: Lessons Inspired by 'The Life You Can Save’ suite of resources, created in collaboration with The Life You Can Save.

This unit for Years 7 & 8 HASS, Understanding Poverty and the Impact of Compassionate Giving, is designed to 

• engage students in activities that foster critical thinking about economic status and explore actionable solutions to poverty
• foster a sense of responsibility and empathy towards global challenges
• explore the economics behind poverty by understanding economic privilege, poverty and ethical considerations surrounding compassionate giving
• develop students’ ability to respond to economic and business issues by balancing cost and benefits
• interrogate the dynamics of running a not-for-profit organisation, including impact generation and effectiveness
• encourage young people to reflect on how they can contribute to social change beyond financial donations.

Detailed excerpts from The Life You Can Save by Professor Peter Singer are a key and unique element of these resources and help students understand the different perspectives around giving to charitable organisations.  

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