IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

Tunza for children - website of the United Nations Environment Programme

Lively activities, competitions and suggestions of things you can do to help the planet.

In Chinese and English

Tunza - youth site from the United Nations Environment Programme

The word “TUNZA” means “to treat with care or affection” in Kiswahili (a sub-regional language of Eastern Africa). The overall TUNZA Concept, therefore, is built around this theme. It is an initiative that is meant to develop activities in the areas of capacity building, environmental awareness, and information exchange, with a vision to foster a generation of environmentally conscious citizens, capable of positive action.

In Chinese and English

Life-Link Friendship-Schools

Life-Link Friendship-Schools is a Sweden-based organisation that encourages schools all over the world to take, and report on, actions to promote peace, sustainability, personal, social and health education, working with others etc.

The website has over 50 suggestions for action in these areas. You can also read the reports from schools from all over the world that have taken these actions.

Centre for Environment Education - India

CEE India is concerned with the environment and sustainable development in India, and has associated organisations in Australia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Programmes incude education work in schools. 

It has three specific programmes responding to disasters:

Buy Fairtrade products - and give producers in the developing world a better deal.

Fair trade is about trying to give a better deal to producers in the developing world. Some Fair trade activities have the "Fairtrade" label.

The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer label which appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal.

In 2006, the Fairtrade system benefited approximately 1.4 million workers, farmers in 57 developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Victorial International Development Education Association - website for global citizenship

Website from this Canadian organisation, with resources for teachers
and students on a number of global issues. Case studies and approach
are North American, with a Canadian slant, but of interest and use much
more widely. Contains interesting facts and figures about North America
too!

Global Footprint Network

"Global Footprint Network is committed to fostering a world where all people have the opportunity to live satisfying lives within the means of Earth's ecological capacity. We are dedicated to advancing the scientific rigor and practical application of the Ecological Footprint, a tool that quantifies human demand on nature, and nature's capacity to meet these demands."

From GFN website

Global Eye

A website of the UK's Royal Geographical Society with many excellent Internet-based student activities related to all the issues of the community theme, and other development-related issues, e.g. environment, climate change, sustainability.

Activities are categorised by age group (primary, secondary), topic, and country they relate to.