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Volume 2, Issue 4: May 10, 2004

OSSTF, moved by Stephen Lewis, the UN Special Envoy to Africa on AIDS, will soon launch a project inviting secondary teachers in Canada to visit their colleagues in South Africa, to see the hecatomb with their own eyes, to understand its impact on teachers, students, families and whole communities. Like Common Threads, the recently released resource on sweatshops in Central America, the project should end in the preparation, distribution and use of teacher-prepared, student-friendly documented resources and activities on the situation there. Like Common Threads, which focussed on Guatemala, but could be used to help teach about sweatshop labour in any part of the world, the project team will likely use South Africa as an example of a crisis current in many parts of the world, but especially critical on the African continent where it is depopulating cities, towns, villages and whole nations.

District 11 members interested in participating should watch the Human Rights area of the Provincial website or contact Domenic Bellissimo at Mobile Drive. 

Those interested in viewing parts of Stephen Lewis’ address to AMPA may join the District 11 Human Rights & Status of Women Committee in doing so at a future meeting. Donations by individuals to the Stephen Lewis Foundation can be sent to:
Stephen Lewis Foundation
9 Manchester Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6G 1V4

Let us not take thought for our separate interests, but let us help one another.
(OSSTF Motto)

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