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DESIGN FOR CHANGE
OFFERS A MARKETPLACE OF
SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THE GLOBAL GOALS
DFC'S COVID RESPONSE INITIATIVES
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#DoGoodFromHome USA
Small acts can make a big difference through The#DoGoodFromHome Challenge
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#Impulsacambio SPAIN
#Impulsacambio is a diverse, inclusive, self-managed, online community of young people governed by common values, where they can identify focal points of action, co-create solutions and share them to respond to the needs that arise in crises such as the current one, or others that pose a challenge, and promote the move to action.
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#DFCConnect SINGAPORE
Connect to Listen, Share and get Inspired
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Bringing optimism amongst children within your home country or across the world; through online conversations about their thoughts and possibilities in this time of lockdowns. -
#ClimateCareAtHome SA, SUDAN, PHILIPPINES
A FIDS aligned toolkit with daily prompts and monthly tracking sheet for kids and adults to be climate active during COVID-19 and beyond!
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#UnlockYourMind
At this time of crisis where our children are learning from home, Riverside community offers these 5 amazing challenges that blends critical thinking, reflection, observation and hands on learning for children. Download and get started to experience the joy in learning from home!!!
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#FunEducation DFC KENYA
Local problems are becoming global, better empower children globally to address the change by change for better future
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Ways of Wellbeing (WOW) DFC MALAYSIA
In 2008, NEF (New Economics Foundation) produced their five ways to well-being framework for adults. These Ways of Wellbeing(WOW) are connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and give. Using this as a framework, workshops are conducted for both educators,kids and teens to bring awareness and educate them on how they can improve their own wellbeing.
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YSI Open Call to TeenagersDFC IRELAND
A digital campaign targeting teenagers to create and submit ideas to help their communities deal with issues caused by coronavirus. No idea is too big or too small!
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Diário dos SonhosDFC BRAZIL
Diário dos Sonhos" by a Criativos da Escolas ´invites you to record a video or to write down your dreams and post them on their social networks with the hashtag #diariodossonhos.
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#DesignForCaresDFC CHINA
DFC T-shirt designing competition. Encourage more understanding and care for the people and things around us after the outbreak.
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WHAT IS THE I CAN MINDSET?
The I CAN Mindset equips every child to be
AWARE of the world around them
ENABLED with the skills to take action and
EMPOWERED to design a more desirable
and sustainable future - TODAY!
February | Featured Stories
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These students from India felt that elders in their community were not being respected and imagined a way to restore their dignity.
Because Elders weren't given much importance, these children imagined a way of restoring respect by making them feel useful through: collecting folktales and songs from their grandparents, organising a storytime when these will be shared with the school and making a library to access them at home and school.
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This group of Colombian children found out that indigenous students were ashamed of their race so decided to recover the historical memory of their ancestors.
The students realized that they are ashamed of their race and had been ignoring the origins of their race, history, language and traditions. To address this, they created a thematic museum on their ancestor's exploitation of rubber.
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A group of Malaysian students saw the excessive amount of plastic waste in their community and started upcycling.
After seeing the desolate plastic dumping grounds and discovering how poorly Malaysia as a whole manages plastic waste, these children turned single use plastics into double use through creating: plastools, keychains and C-Cans and heart structures.
March | Featured Stories
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The children from Santa Maria Marianistas School in Peru helps their families with clean drinking water
In 2019, children were concerned that many families did not have access to clean drinking water, they designed a portable water system using the help of engineers with out borders and helped their family
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These young superheroes took matters to their hand and constructed a vegetable garden using sustainable resources
In 2019, the children from one school in Malaysia successfully grew their own garden using sustainable methods of farming
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Yanu Cheng, Chuhan Cheng and friends from China helped an old lady out of poverty
In 2016, young superheroes helped Aunt Zong increase her daily income by designing a path that would help her with more customers to sell her products and earn more income to be able to come out of poverty.
April | Featured Stories
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In 2019, the sparkling crystals of Gems Modern Academy, Dubai, UAE have helped their fellow specially-abled schoolmates experience the amazing school bus travel.
The students set up a ramp in the school buses facilitating specially-abled school kids to travel on the school bus rather than using personal transport. They have cherished the kids by helping them socialize in the van with the other children.
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The young stars of The Exploris School, North Carolina, USA, in 2019 have welcomed the Syrian refugees in a warm way making them feel safe and comfortable.
The students collected donations and purchased essentials for daily living. They organized the essentials purchased and distributed them to the refugees. They helped the refugees in moving in, making them feel cared for and safe.
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In 2019, the blooming flowers of Makassed Aisha School Lebanon, spread love and happiness to the abandoned elderly, making a vast difference in their lives.
The students visited old age homes and spent time with the abandoned elderly planting in excellent and cherished memories in their hearts. This has helped them come out of loneliness and feel cared for.
May | Featured Stories
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The young minds of Mundumala Primary School, Bangladesh in 2019, set up a public library with non-school books.
The students set up a public library with non school books to help kids with curiosity to learn beyond the prescribed syllabus. They made an amazing bamboo bookshelf and filled it with books borrowed from previous users.
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In 2016, colourful minds of Taiwan gave a warm welcome to the migrants workers of the country.
The children put up train route maps indicating the places where the migrant workers generally go to work, translated in local language. They have greatly helped the workers to take tickets on their own and travel independently in trains without having to read and understand the English signboards and instructions.
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In 2013, the children of Agastya International foundation, Karnataka, have made their community aware of effective waste disposal.
The children worried about the irresponsible disposal of waste in their community. The dustbins overflow without any cleaning action taking place for long. The children put up awareness charts and toll free numbers of municipality to assist civilians in contacting the waste management office for emptying the dustbins timely.
June | Featured Stories
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The kids of Lycée Antoine de Saint-Ecupéry, Santiago, in 2017, created a better atmosphere in their school to motivate team work and encourage school students to share ideas with each other.
The children designed a table to share snacks, they also made a mobile recycling bin strengthening their friendship and celebrating nature at the same time. The availability of different spaces to ideatecreated many wonderful opportunities for the students.
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In 2017, the lovely little hearts of Experimental School NevehMidbar, Israel streamlined the lives of many stray dogs of the community which not only helped humansbut also the dogs in the community greatly.
The children sterilized the stray dogs of the community and found families to adopt some of them. They campaigned on the importance of harmonized relations between animals and dogs. Petting stations were also set up in their school to take care of the dogs. The children made the community free from the problems of stray dogs.
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The little scientist of Lebanon, in 2015 made use of sunlight to heat water and helped reduce pollution by usingnonrenewable sources for energy.
The children designed a water heater using recyclable material and used sunlight to run the device. They motivated other children to do the same and also made some devices for older people. The children reduced pollution and made a spectacular change in energy consumption.
MEET THE SUPERHEROES
Children are telling us they don't need permission to make the world a better place. Get inspired by their solutions to some of their greatest challenges.
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Come As You Are
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The Water Guardians
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Healing Child Cancer Patients
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A Safer Neighbourhood for All Children
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Creating a Community Garden
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The Real Social Network: Seeing Past Digital Relationships
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The Power of Language: Wisdom of the Inga Community
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A Toy Plane to Reforest Valleys
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Young Environmental Leaders of Lynn
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The Recycling Wheel
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Response-ability: Helping a Disabled Student
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Fighting Prejudices Against Homosexuality
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Immigrant or Not, You Are My Friend!
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Including Children With Special Needs
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Bringing Light to the Dreams of Blind Kids
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Combating High Drop-Out Rates
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Discovering Teaching-Learning Materials from Waste
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Securing the School Wall
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A Canteen for All
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Bamboo-zled!
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Lobbying for Free Range Milk
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Our Safe Way to School
HOW ARE WE DOING IT
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Feel PROCESS VIDEO
FEEL
This step starts with asking you to slow down and 'understand' the situation before jumping to 'solve' it.
Why is it Important?
It develops EMPATHY.
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ImaginePROCESS VIDEO
IMAGINE
This step asks you to brainstorm solutions to improve, enrich, change the user experience.
Why is it important?
It develops ETHICS.
When you choose to offer a solution to change the current situation, it asks you to take the 'responsibility' for the same. This mindset helps you believe that you are NOT helpless, change IS possible and YOU can drive it! -
DoPROCESS VIDEO
DO
This step is about creative agency and the ability to take timely action.
Why is it Important?
It develops EXCELLENCE.
'Action' that follows 'intention' results in desired 'impact'. Furthermore, the focus on details allows the action to improve the 'quality' of the experience, building a habit for excellence. -
SharePROCESS VIDEO
SHARE
The final step is 'Share' - cultivating the abundance mentality.
Why is it Important?
It develops ELEVATION
Elevation is the shift from 'competing' with others to 'completing' others. Inherent in this step is the belief that the 'I CAN' spirit offers hope and inspiration for further change.
Go ahead, be a storyteller and shamelessly inspire others to 'Be the Change'!
The FIDS framework helps to develop the much required 21st Century Skills in children, builds their social and emotional competencies and promotes employability skills. The most unique feature of the Design for Change initiative is that it is not only simple and constructive, it is open-source, accessible, adaptable and replicable.
GLOBAL I CAN TOOLKITS
The quickest way to unleash the 'I CAN' superpower in children is to introduce the FIDS process in a week or a month. Download the toolkit to begin the process with your children.
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GET INSPIRED
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I CAN CHILDREN'S GLOBAL SUMMIT
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Kiran Bir Sethi on Make YOU Happen Show
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Kiran Bir Sethi awarded the Vital Voice honoree 2018
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Design for -Change A Champion of learning through play
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Design for Change- Teacher Prize
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A message for all the superheroes!
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What is Design for Change?
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Design for Change - Global Impact
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TED talk- Kiran Bir Sethi
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Dr Howard Gardner on Design for Change
WATCH THE WORLD LIGHT UP
Participate in the Design for Change school challenge in your respective Countries and regions and submit your story.
HAPPENINGS
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I Can Children's Global Summit
Children from over 40 countries around the world poured into Rome at the end of November 2019 to celebrate the first ever, all faith, inclusive ‘I CAN Children’s Global Summit’!
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Eco-Ambassador Program
On Friday, July 12th, the Center for Sustainable Development’s Education Team, in partnership with Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)’s Global Schools Program and Design for Change, began Eco Ambassadors’ workshop to put into motion communal action to protect the environment.
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Design for Change helping children answer their call to action
Montserrat Del Pozo Roselló, Superior General at the Vatican, uncovers how children's projects are generating change.
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REVOLUTIONARY EDUCATIONISTS RESHAPING THE FACE OF EDUCATION
The Better India’s ‘Spotlight 2018’ names Kiran Bir Sethi as one of the individuals transforming the lives of thousands of students.
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Blurring the Boundaries Between School and Life
Kiran Bir Sethi's interview with the WISE- QATAR where she talk about the pedagogy at Riverside School which has a single-minded focus : student wellbeing. Read what she has to say about her approach to education.
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Edutopia features Riverside School
Glimpse through some of the most insightful practices shared by Edutopia on Riverside School that makes this school a beacon of hope today, the curriculum designed using the simple FIDS framework is shaping young lives not only at Riverside but also in more than 60 Countries and Regions across the world!!
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Kiran Bir Sethi awarded the Vital Voice honoree 2018
Kiran Sethi was awarded the Vital Voices Global Leadership Award in Washington DC on 4th April, 2018.
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DFC signed a collaboration with OIEC
The International Organization of Catholic Schools- that takes Design for Change to over 240,000 schools worldwide, and Scholas Occurrentes - the organization that the Pope created in Argenitna in 2001, to make students from public and private schools take action- that takes Design for Change to over 446,000 schools worldwide
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DFC Recognized By hundrED
DESIGN for CHANGE, the largest movement for children, has been announced by global education non-profit HundrED, as one of its 100 innovative education projects across the world, all of which have been gathered over the past two years.
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Wendy Kopp shares about Riverside
Wendy Kopp (CEO & Founder of Teach for America) Last year I visited Global Teacher Prize winner Kiran Bir Sethi, who founded the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, 15 years ago.
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Riverside featured in Taking Design Thinking to School
Taking Design Thinking to School: How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms uses an action-oriented approach to reframing K-12 teaching and learning, examining interventions that open up dialogue about when and where learning, growth and empowerment can be triggered.
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DFC chosen as top 10 projects by the LEGO Foundation and Ashoka
Design for Change was selected as one of the Top 10 Champions of the Re-imagine Learning Challenge by the LEGO Foundation and Ashoka.
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Kiran chosen in the top 10 for Global Teacher Prize
Kiran Sethi, Founder- Design for Change was selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists for the Global Teacher Prize. Organized by the Varkey Foundation, in March 2015
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DFC Receives Top Good Practice Award.
Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie, presented the first place prize for the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards to Dr. Satbir Bedi, Joint Secretary for the School of Education in the Ministry of Human Resources Development of India.
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DFC Mentioned on THE GLOBAL GOALS website
World Leaders have committed to 17 Global Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality & injustice. Fix climate change. DFC has been recognized as one of the action steps to reach these Global Goals.
