In memory of the teacher from Barcelona.

This Monday, 20th of April, a teacher was killed at a school in Barcelona. It was a very sad new, so from our school we wanted to remember him, and  yesterday (21st of April) we kept a minute of silence in his memory.
We appeared on TV and on the newspaper.

http://www.rtve.es/m/alacarta/videos/noticias-murcia/?media=tve

Again, in Europe Direct!

Today we have been again to the office of Europe Direct Región de Murcia, and we have met a consultant contracted by the European Commission who is evaluating the European Year for Development. He asked us some questions and we showed him our project. It was a great pleasure meeting him and the members of Europe Direct!

The children in Congo.

We've already known the children who are going to receive the school supplies that we collected!! As we said, they're a group of children who live in an orphanage in Congo. We're very happy to help them!
You can see some pictures here:

You can also watch a video of them here:

https://youtu.be/R-gA-lsglzY

An orphanage in Congo.

Finally we have news from Congo!!!
Federico sent us an email saying that he's contacted an orphanage there, which really needs help. We're going to send the school supplies soon!!
He also sent us some pictures of the children in the orphanage:

Memory of our project.

During this contest we have made a lot of activities, videos... but now you are going to read a summary of our initiative:

1.WHAT'S OUR PROJECT ABOUT?

As we explained in our first post http://newropeansspain.blogspot.com.es/2015_03_01_archive.html, this year is the European Year For Development and we decided to choose "education for population" as our slogan, because everybody deserves an education, and if we want a better future it's necessary to have one. We wanted to help so we did different activities trying to help the most needed.


2.WHAT DID WE DO?

At our school:

-First we prepared the test by reading and studying "gacetas euroscolos".And on 18th March we did it.

-After, we started to prepare a collection of school supplies, from 3 years old children to 16 years old teenagers.
We showed two different power points to all the classes, one about the education and another one about the European Union and the education. We convince everybody about the importance of having one.

-A day later, all the students gave us their school supplies, we filled more tan 4 big boxes! (We are going to send them to a poor school in Congo)
They also took some photos and videos supporting "education for population"

  -We did a spiritual dance in memory of the people who died the 24th of March in the tragedy of the Germanwings flight.

-Also, Europe Direct Región de Murcia visited our school two different times, the first one we celebrated together the Safer Internet Day and they explained us the importance of a responsible use of the Internet.

The second time they helped us to prepare the collection of school supplies.

  

Outside our school:                                                                                                                                                                  

 

-We went to the office of Europe Direct three different times, the first one they explained us how Europe Direct and the EU Works.

And the other two times they worked with us, and they helped us a lot. Thank you so much!!

 

-We made a video where you can see people from different countries supporting our Project, and our slogan "education for population". http://newropeansspain.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/our-video-education-for-population.html.

-We also visited twice an exhibition organized by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation.  The second visit was special, because we attended to a "private vist" with the students of San Pedro Apóstol (they participate in Euroscola too) and a member of Europe Direct.

 

-We supported the #nohatespeech Movement.                                         

 

-Santa María de Gracia school recorded a video supporting our Project.

-Two students of Yamanlar School (Izmir,Turkey) recorded a video at their school supporting us.

 

-We explained our Project in Centro Social de Mayores Santiago y Zaraiche, and they also supported education for population.       http://newropeansspain.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/everybody-supports-us.HTML

 

-In Bando de la Huerta (a traditional festival in Murcia) we took a photo supporting education for population with Murcian typical clothes.

 

-On 9th April we went to the radio RomMurcia, to talk about our Project and we appeared on "Aquí y Ahora".    http://www.rommurcia.es/2015/04/09/aqui-y-ahora-09-04-15/

 

-We sent a tweet to each one of the European Comissioners and, Jyrki Katainen, clicked favourite on our tweet.

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-We created three different QR codes, one to our twitter, other to our facebook and other to our blog. 

-We created a website where you can see our blog, and you can also contact us.

-We contacted  a volunteer working in the border between Syria and Turkey and we also contacted a priest working in Congo (we'll send him the school supplies that we collected)

They'll send us their answers as soon as posible and we'll post them here.

 

And that's all! We hope you like our initiative! We have worked a lot!

We invite you to watch this video that we made with all the pictures we took during this Project:

 

https://youtu.be/BljVrT09Qd8

 

Thank you for giving us this oportunity to participate in this incredible contest!

 

                                

 

Thanks!

We want to thank our teachers Blanca and Eva for encouraging us to participate in Euroscola and helping us with the project.
We want to thank our schoolmates,teachers and families for participating in all the activities we have prepared and for being so generous.
We want to thank all our international friends for supporting us from their countries.
We want to thank Europe Direct for being there for us.

We want to thank the teachers of Santa María de Gracia school for supporting us.
We really want to thank EUROSCOLA, for giving us this chance to help for a better future.

THANK YOU!!

Why #educationforpopulation?

We have chosen the slogan education for population because we think that if we have the right to go to school and learn, every single kid in the world has that right too. Kids are the future, and if we want to have a good future, we have to give kids better life conditions and education.

We already knew that in some places it is difficult for children to have an education, but when we did some research on it and we saw that it was a lot more than just a matter of cultural differences,  we thought that it isn't fair at all and we wanted to do something about it. Even if we knew that we can't help every child in the world, we wanted to participate.
We have tried to make as many people as possible be aware of this problem so we can fight it all together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQfc3UB3Z8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YJHfX_0psE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFQzNGUYH94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcUsoOXlXg0