In 2007 UNESCO ASPnet 1987 regional office in
AmmanJordan
and the Life-Link program agreed to work together for a pilot project involving
50 schools in Arab countries plus 50 schools world-wide
The two actions decided at a planning workshop in
Amman
May 2007 were
Culture of Care à Culture for Peace (October 2007)
and
Water for Life (March 2008). These themes are in harmony with
the UN and UNESCO declared decades
Culture of Peace, Water for Life, Education
for Sustainable Development and Decade for Disarmament. The actions have
their roots in the Life-Link ethics
Care for Myself – Care for Others
– Care for Nature.
Teachers Guidelines for the two actions have been formulated, and at each participating
school, classes have performed 3 lessons and 2 selfstudies/fieldstudies within each
of the actions. An evaluation workshop in December 2007 showed good results and
reactions from the Culture of Care à Culture for Peace action. A final evaluation
workshop and conference will now be performed in
Petra
Jordan
2-6 June 2008. The second action Water for Life has attracted even more schools
and countries, and this action also involves a Dialogue-Schools phase when each
participating school exchanges Water for Life experiences with