Young Lives has teamed up with Save the Children UK's Education Unit to produce a development education resource focusing on children, poverty and the UN Millennium Development Goals. Young Lives, Global Goals is a resource pack that ties in neatly to the UK school curricula in geography, environmental studies and citizenship for 11- to 14-year-olds.

The teaching pack explores what it means to be poor for children in four countries and at international efforts to eradicate poverty. Through activities, video clips and photocards pupils get an inside view on the lives of eight children from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.

Beginning from these children's experiences, the pack examines the UN Millennium Development Goals - a set of targets drawn up by world leaders to reduce poverty, improve education and healthcare, and create a sustainable environment.

Young Lives, Global Goals enables teachers to bring the global dimension into the classroom via a framework for investigating place in key stage three geography, activities that integrate global citizenship with geography and environmental science, and real-life case studies.

The pack contains

• a 152-page activity pack
• a 40-minute video
• 16 photocards
• and an A1 poster

£22.50, 2005, ISBN 1 84187 100 1

You can order this pack online through Save the Children: www.nbninternational.com

[UPDATE: in 2007 a similar school resource was published specifically aimed at younger school children Welcome to My World]