We may consider the countless millions who live in the wider world to be strangers but our lives are linked through the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, even the air we breathe. Today, more than ever before, the wider world is part of our daily lives as the choices we make here affect the lives of others making them no longer strangers.

The 21st-Century reality is that we are all members of a global community with responsibilities towards each other. Children have a natural interest and curiosity in the wider world as well as their local situation and need to be offered the opportunity to develop critical thinking about complex global issues in the safety of the classroom. It is vital children are supported to understand the power they have as individuals to make choices or take action for the present and the future.

• raise awareness of global issues in many communities, especially with young people
• enable them to take action to work for a more just and sustainable world
• promote the links between people in Kent and Medway and the wider world.

Kent and the Wider World offers a range of services and activities including:

• resources for teachers, schools, youth, faith and community groups
• a continuing professional development programme for teachers and facilitators
• workshops on global issues with children and young people in schools and youth, faith and community groups

In 2007, Kent and the Wider World:

• ran workshops with 1799 children and young people
• provided training for 222 teachers, youth workers and other educators
• distributed thousands of newsletters and loaned resources and visual aids to teachers, youth workers, advisors, members and others.

For further information about
Kent and the Wider World please contact

2-3 Bedford Place
Maidstone
Kent ME16 8JB
01622 689498

info@kww.org.uk

www.kww.org.uk