Lesson video

Hi, everyone.

And kind of welcome back to this unit of work exploring the question, "How does the UK still play "a meaningful role in the international community?" Today we're going to probably explore my favourite topic in the unit about the role of NGOs and how UK society supports solving and kind of overcoming global humanitarian problems. So please make sure you're somewhere quiet and you're ready to learn.

Kind of let's begin kind of our lesson today.

So kind of for today's lesson, you will need your exercise book and kind of some paper, and if you are completing the whole series of lessons, it would be very useful if you had your notes kind of from the previous lessons.

And you will either need a black or blue pen and also a different coloured pen to help you self-assess your work.

So if you need to get them possibly do it now and then come back to it.

So what we're going to do today is we are going to look at what global humanitarian problems are.

We are going to look at how are global humanitarian problems challenged and we're going to look at an example of a global humanitarian problem case study and how the UK helps solve and overcome these global issues.

Okay, so let's explore our first question of the lesson and what are global humanitarian problems? Humanitarian problems, kind of it's actually better to switch the words around if you want to fully understand them.

Basically global humanitarian problems are problems which affect humanity or it is an event, kind of which threatens the health, security or safety of people.

And you may wish to pause the video now to make a note of that definition into your notes.

And humanitarian problems can be categorised into different types.

So we've got Man Made kind of humanitarian problems. So problems caused by humanity themselves.

We've got natural kind of geophysical.

So problems caused by the earth's geographical features.

We've got natural hydrological.

So problems caused by the earth's water.

We've got natural biological.

So problems caused by the earth's lifes and organisms. We've got natural kind of meteorological.

So problems caused by the earth's weather or climate.

On your screen, you will see five examples.

And what I would like you to do is pause the video and make a note of those types of problems and match them with the correct example.

So pause the video now and have a go at that.

Okay, well done for giving that a go, and hopefully you did that with no problem.

And here are some of the answers.

So we've got natural hydrological, flood because it'll still be water, natural geophysical we've gotten a earthquake, natural metrological kind of a hurricane cause it's to do with weather or climate.

Man Made, war and conflict and natural biological are things like the plague or it could indeed be COVID 19 as we are currently experiencing.

And I'm sure you can come up with many more examples of your own too.

Kind of some of them classifies as complex problems so they may cross over with one another.

Yeah.

So, global problems require global solutions.

If you joined us for lesson one, when we looked at the United Nations and we looked at its different organs, so it's different parts, but we looked at an organ called the Economic and Social Research Council.

One of their biggest outputs are the Sustainable Development Goals and these are kind of 17 goals kind of the world wants to try and achieve by 2030 to make the world a better place.

And if you look at them, a lot of them are connected with global problems. So global problems do require global solutions and there has been some efforts made towards meeting these.

And so it's definitely one to watch.

Okay, question number two for today's lesson is how are global humanitarian problems challenged.

And a lot of the time global kind of humanitarian problems are challenged or kind of helped to be overcome by kind of Non-Governmental Organisations.

And a Non-Governmental Organisation is a voluntary, non-profit organisation who work either locally, nationally or internationally to achieve an aim.

And I would pause the video now and make a note of that within your notes.

Okay, so we're going to do another quick task.

You will see on the screen that you have a list of NGOs and then you will also see a list of their aims. What I would like you to do is match the NGO with its aim, and I'm sure you've had many of these either within citizenship or just by watching news or just by being a member of society.

So pause the video now and give that a go.

Okay, so well done for doing that again.

I'm sure that you did that with no problem.

We've got Oxfam and that's kind of Oxfam's aim is to eradicate poverty.

We've got WaterAid to promote and secure access to safe water.

We've got Save the Children to ensure children are protected.

We've got Greenpeace to defend the natural world from destruction.

And we've got Amnesty International to fight and overcome human rights abuses.

And all of these have an origin within the UK.

So this is one of the reasons on ways the UK help challenge and overcome global problems is by founding these NGOs.

And I'm going to look in particular, at a UK based NGO.

And we're going to look at Oxfam.

I'm going to look at some of the work that Oxfam carries out to help overcome these global humanitarian problems. What I would like you to do is watch a little clip and this clip is found on the worksheet.

And as you are watching the clip, I would like you to complete these sentences on the screen.

And it would be a good idea if you paused the video, made a note kind of with the sentences and then watched the clip.

And if you just leave a gap in the sentences they can offer a couple of words, that will be fine.

So kind of access the video, and complete your sentences and then come back to the lesson.

Okay, so well done.

Hopefully you found that clip informative.

Oxfam work in over 70 countries.

We've got Oxfam help to deal with kind of emergencies and support a community's recovery.

We've got they work with the local people to improve their livelihoods.

So they adopt kind of what we call grassroots initiatives.

So they work on the ground with people to help the communities get better.

And they aim to overcome poverty working under the motto, "Be Humankind".

So be kind to one another.

That is one of the big, best ways you can help solve these issues.

And just some extra notes that you might want to add to your notes, kind of Oxfam was established in 1942 in kind of Oxford.

And it supports the eradication of poverty by fundraising and asking the public for donations.

So I'm sure you will have seen an Oxfam appeal kind of out and about, or maybe on TV.

And the money is used respond to short-term emergencies and/or invest in long-term development projects.

So it tackles things what happened immediately but then it's also there for the long term to kind of help kind of make, to make its society better.

And so, yeah you might just want to pause now and just jot those notes into your notes.

Okay, so how else do you think the UK might help to overcome global problems. Consider what the government might do and consider an individual UK citizen.

Then you can just pause the video now, maybe just have a thing for a couple of minutes about what else the UK could do.

And you could even do it as a little mind map like is shown on the screen.

Okay, so well done for giving that task a go.

I'm sure you've got lots of ideas.

I'm going to share mine with you now, and maybe if you've not got them you could add them to your mind map.

So kind of as we already know, the UK is home to many NGOs such as Oxfam, WaterAid and Save the Children.

But the UK also has a specific government departments, which support the goal in overcoming problems, such as the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

And they oversee what's called the foreign aid budget.

And this budget is used by the UK government to support countries around the world to respond to their global problems either in short term or the long term.

And as you know, if you've been with us since lesson one that the UK is a member of many different organisations and these organisations work together to help the world overcome their global problems, such as the United Nations, and we've already looked at this and their development goals and the Commonwealth who help kind of countries kind of overcome that specific issues too.

But the UK kind of systems also have a role in supporting global problems. Like the Charity Aid Foundation in 2019 reports that the UK donate around 10.

1 billion pounds to charity every year.

And yeah you can, maybe you contributed to this in 2019 if you supported any of the charities or you've had any charity events at school, it all kind of goes to the big picture.

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations said that people spent 19.

4 million hours kind of volunteering.

And, you know, people can volunteer in all sorts of things.

They can help to support local problems, but they can also help to overcome global problems. So for example, when I was younger I volunteered in Oxfam shop and I know you say kind of work here on a Saturday morning.

Can you give me another time to help kind of sell products, kind of sell stock, which with stand the kind of the money went to support Oxfam's projects around the world.

Maybe you do something like that or maybe you don't like to do something like that when you're a little bit older.

So you might just want to add some candidates from that to your MoMA.

And, you know, we also sometimes provides a specific support of projects.

So we might decide to defence experts for conflict issues.

We might fund scientists for health projects or diplomats.

So people who kind of deal in kind of diplomacy and kind of governments and kind of talking about conflict resolution, et cetera for political projects.

So our third bit of the lesson is we're going to look at an example of a global humanitarian problem case study and find out kind of what is actually happening in the world.

And for this, what I would like you to do is draw me a bubble diagram like the one on the screen.

There is also a copy of this on the worksheet if you want to have a look at it on there.

And basically what I would like you to do is kind of leave the lesson, go to the worksheet, read through the information, and there is also another short video, and use that to fill in your bubble diagram.

Okay, so you're going to add a kind of a line from each bubble to give some extra ideas about each.

So kind of, how Oxfam does it work? How Oxfam does it work? What specific help does it give, et cetera.

So pause the video now and give that a go and then pop back.

Okay, well done for giving that a go, now there is my version of the bubble diagram.

So you looked at a project which was based in Yemen.

You saw the impact of that humanitarian issue was things like poor hygiene facilities and that meant there was a lack of food, there was lack of clean water, disease, et cetera.

The short term response by Oxfam was to provide vouchers and some food and clean water.

It's long-term solutions were more like providing kind of employment for people especially women, and using solar and wind to make water systems so the country could access some water while its facing its civil war and conflict.

So well done for getting those notes down.

And that's a very, very good example of a project.

And if you are doing GCSE Citizenship you kind of, you could be asked about a kind of NGO and a project it does and how it works to overcome these global humanitarian problems. Okay, so that brings our lesson to an end for today.

And hopefully you can state and categorise global humanitarian problems but you can describe how an NGO might help overcome kind of humanitarian problems. And you can explain the role of Oxfam in Yemen and how they are tackling each humanitarian problems. Okay, so well done for all your hard work today, and don't forget to complete the exit quiz kind of after the lesson so you can have a look at the progress you've made and hopefully see you again next time for the next lesson.

Thank you very much.

Bye.