Objective

• To decide on a human rights project

Procedure

1. Explain to the students that everyone everywhere who is the victim of a human rights violation is experiencing some kind of adversity. Remind students that people overcome adversity through a number of ways: through their religious belief; through personal perseverance; through the help of friends and family; through the help of agencies; through the help of strangers, etc.
   
   
2. Explain that as a fitting end to this mini-unit, students are being required to—as a class or as individuals—to participate in some kind of humanitarian gesture that will help someone struggling to overcome adversity.
   
   
3. Let students volunteer their ideas. They might choose to do volunteer work, write letters, or donate money. (As a final project, students in one class donated money to The Heifer Project for purchase of a water buffalo and llama for a needy family.)
   
   Please see:“Action Activity 4: Strategizing for Action at
   http://160.94.193.60/hrh-and-n/Part-4/8_action-activity4.htm
   
   Action Activity 5: Power of the Pen
   http://160.94.193.60/hrh-and-n/Part-4/9_action-activity5.htm
   
   
4. See also: links to other human rights agencies/ organizations/ projects
   http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/education.html
   
   Heifer Project
   http://www.heifer.org/
   
   Habitat for Humanity
   http://www.habitat.org/