Finnish students' texts about the project week in Lithuania

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Cleaning the surroundings of the school

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The link to the Prezi presentation of the celebrations at Vanttila School:

http://prezi.com/9mxkfwttpz8j/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Cleaning campaings in Estonia and Vändra Gymnasium.

Armin wrote about cleaning campaigns in Estonia and Vändra Gymnasium.

https://en.calameo.com/read/0043178249dc817182314

Estonian students` impressions about the project week

You can read about Estonian students` impressions about our project week in Lithuania:
https://en.calameo.com/read/0043178242f8cb53616c1

Photos of our wonderful project week in Lithuania

 Photos of our wonderful project week in Lithuania from 25 till 29 April 2016.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111963230857556108622

Last day in Lithuania

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPH_A5iuvKfDZnnlFT5lshAAiX2yoPZJ-FWQ_k_uS5STi3fii3g3kcbkqMUsDpz1Q?key=WTFtcUdaVFF2Rk9aY19nTVJCUXFtc19kTGt4QlJn

Life 100 years ago by Markus, Klaudijus, Maribet, Ugnė and Elena

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9uFae7ofChxTEo2V1ZFZFVfRHM/view?usp=sharing

Lithuanian life 100 years ago vs nowadays by Tony, Andra, Iina, Laura and Albinas

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9uFae7ofChxQ05ZU3dkSmFLU2s/view?usp=sharing

The quality of life now and then by Gerardas, Atte, Armin, Oona and Kamilė

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9uFae7ofChxTE9KaVh3eVlyODA/view?usp=sharing

Lithuania by Victoria, Merili, Neringa, Aistė, Arttu, Darius

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9uFae7ofChxQXgtMm03TWFFQVk/view?usp=sharing

Our Impressions in Lithuania by Gabija, Greta, Katrina, Oona K., Hanna Miina, Evelina

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9uFae7ofChxU2h0XzliWW4tSUE/view?usp=sharing

The project week in Lithuania by Kirke, Triin, Jonė, Goda, Venla, Severina

http://prezi.com/32-49k67gofk/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Traditional events in the secondary school of Alovė

http://prezi.com/lik_dgqryxe-/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Celebrations and events in Vändra Gymnasium in 2015/2016

Different celebrations and events in Vändra Gymnasium in 2015/2016. This presentation is made by Triin and Maribet (year 9) and Andra (year 8).
https://prezi.com/6mpkssnu3amt/my-school-and-its-celebrations/

Charity at Danmission

Charity work Danmission

Lea, Andreas, Julie and Anne Sofie

Charity at Danmission

We went working for the Danish charity organisation, Danmission.

We had scheduled four hours of volunteer work, from 10 to 14.

(Wednesday 2nd March: 4 student are going to work in the clothing department)

Danmission has existed for around 180 years, and consists mostly of volunteers!

Danmission is not only a secondhand or thrift shop. They have big projects all over the world, some here in

Europe and others in third world countries.

Danmission earned 74 million kroner, approx. 9,9 million euros in 2013 alone. 3,2 million euros came from

their secondhand shops.

Danmission lets people in third world countries start their own businesses. Many charity organisations only give

food and money to those in need, whereas Danmission has a saying;

‘Give a man a fish, and he has food for a week. Learn a man to fish, and he has food for his entire life’

Danmission lets people borrow money, so they can start their own business, and they do not charge interest rates

on the loan.

They also have what they call ‘widow projects’. In some countries, becoming a widow can ruin you. In addition

to grieving over the loss of your significant other, you will also lose your source of income. If you have

children, you can no longer provide for them.

Danmission creates jobs for widows, so they again can provide for their families.

The store ‘Alverden’ sells clothing, shoes and other thing made by people in third world countries. The items

are a bit expensive, but they are made under good conditions, and the workers are earning a fair amount of

money, which means: It’s fairtrade!

We all really enjoyed working as volunteers, even more when we knew what a difference we make!

Volunteer work is not at all boring, and it really sets your world in perspective, when you are told that what you

get for selling a cup, is enough to provide four days of clean water for three families is amazing!

We really recommend doing volunteer work. Your effort could really make a difference for many people. And

remember, a wise man once said;

‘If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in your room’

Posters about reusing paper boxes, food leftovers, old clothes and cloth cuttings made by 7th graders of Alovė school

Posters about the project themes (made by 9th grade students)

Here are posters made by our 9th grade students. Every school member in Vanttila can have a look at them and pay attention to important issues linked to environment! 

Food weighing in Odense

In Odense at Hunderupskolen, we also weighed leftovers, but since we don't have a canteen and we don't have organized school lunch, it was difficult to weigh leftovers. But the students went to all classrooms and told about the mission, put up special bags for leftovers that day, and collected the bags later the same day. Especially the younger students took the mission seriously and left almost nothing from their packed lunch from home. So with 17 classes (24 students pr class) it came to 7,5 kg of leftovers. That's 18,38 grams pr student. We have to add that some classes misunderstood the task and threw out milk cartons (we didn't seperate the content of the bags..)

How to reduce household waste.

Merili (Form 8) made a poster `How to reduce household waste`.
Estonians started to pay more attention to this important issue only during tha last decades. We prefer cloth bags to plastic ones when shopping, bigger packets to smaller ones, and instead of throwing away things we can mend them, reuse creatively or recycle.