Anti-Poverty Week

Queensland schools are being encouraged to do their bit for Anti-Poverty Week.

Anti-Poverty Week, which takes place from 12-18 October, gives all Australians an opportunity to take part in an activity highlighting or overcoming poverty and hardship in Australia or overseas. 

There are three main ways your school can get involved.

• Organise an activity. 
• Use the week as a focus to teach children about poverty, its causes and consequences and ways it can be prevented or resolved.
• Launch a program at your school to ensure that students who are experiencing poverty or hardship are able to fully participate in all aspects of school life. This might include, for example, performing an “inclusion review” to identify areas where those students might be excluded. 

For information and ideas, visit http://antipovertyweek.org.au/organise-an-activity/how-schools-can-get-involved

Queensland Teachers' Journal, Vol 119 No 6, 22 August 2014, p4