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Try out some of these fundraising activities:
Join thousands of other young people from across Australia who are taking part in the China Disaster Preparedness Project.
Ideas for Action: Choose from the ideas listed below or think of your own idea and share it with others by sending it to us at schoolprojects@redcross.org.au
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Each Chinese New Year is linked to one of the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Research what the 12 animals are and the years they are associated with. See if you can also find the Chinese symbols used to represent them. Using drawings and traditional Chinese calligraphy techniques make your own greeting cards eg Birthday, Mother’s Day, Friendship. Once your group has a number of different cards you can hold a lunchtime sale and send the money raised to the China Disaster Preparedness Project. |
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Hold a mini Olympics at your school where each entrant pays a gold coin fee to participate. Invite groups from all classes to form teams representing different countries (make a flag, learn the name of an Olympian or sport they are famous for and participate in decathalon events). Your class could make the medals & be the Olympic officials.
*The Olympics are in China this year, but remember that 20% of the worlds poor live in China in rural areas like Guangxi. |
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As a group pack an emergency kit hamper (as if you had to evacuate from your home) and donate these goods for a raffle. Your hamper could include torches, batteries, a battery operated radio, matches, muesli bars, canned foodsand first aid items. Money raised from the hamper raffle can go towards the China Disaster Preparedness Project. | |
Disaster Stories
Do you have a story, picture or a song about a disaster that you know about or have lived through? Send them to us to share on the youth section of the Red Cross website and in Red Cross Youth publications. You can tell us what it was like or how you felt, what damage was done, or what you did and who helped you.
Send you disaster stories or artwork to:
Lucy Blomfield
‘Your Say’
C/- Youth & Education Services Red Cross
23-47 Villiers Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051
Or by email to schoolprojects@redcross.org.au
Want to find out more about the 2008 China Disaster Preparedness Project?
Visit the Resources page and download the fact sheets and lesson plans
