FOR A LIVING PLANET!

We have been working on NGOs since EMAUS came to school to give us a speech about  fair trade and other interesting solidary actions. 

The NGO we have chosen is environmentally-friendly and keeps on helping endangered species and avoiding pollution. We hope you will find interesting the information in the next few paragraphs.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment. It is the world's largest independent conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries, supporting around 1,300 environmental projects.

The group says its mission is "to avoid the destruction of our environment". Currently, much of its work focuses on the conservation of the world's biodiversity: forests, freshwater ecosystems, oceans and coasts. Among other issues, it is also concerned with endangered species, pollution and climate change.

WWF was formed on 29 April 1961, under the name of World Wildlife Fund, and its first office was opened on 11 September that same year in Morges, Switzerland. Godfrey A. Rockefeller played an important role in its creation, assembling the first staff. The American Conservation Association, was joined into the WWF.

WWF has set up offices and operations around the world. It originally worked with grants to non-governmental organizations, based on the best-available scientific knowledge and with an initial focus on the protection of endangered species. As they get more money, its operations expanded into other areas such as the preservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of natural resources, the reduction of pollution, and climate change. The organization also began to run projects, and by the 1980s started to take a more strategic advantage to its conservation activities.

The Giant Panda mascot of WWF originated from a panda named Chi Chi that was moved from the Beijing Zoo to the London Zoo in the same year of the establishment of WWF. As the only giant panda residing in the Western area at that time and as it is an endangered specie, panda has become the symbol of the organization. Moreover, the organization also needs an animal that could be printed in black and white, because they also wanted to avoid pollution.

A cry for help from Sahara

We have worked in a very famous word affair. We have done a work of a conflict which is located in Western Sahara. You can see what we have done in this link. We hope you learn a lot and you enjoy it!

European citizenship.

This Christmas, we are working in a quite unknown topic, the European citizenship. As we are european, we have some rights that other countries which are not from the European Union have not.

One of those rights is the right to vote in the european country where we are living at that moment, and we can stand as a candidate in elections. Moreover, we have freedom of movement, which means that we can travel to any country of the European Union with only carrying our identity card with us. If we have any problem there, we also have the right to ask for protection.
This are ones of the many right we have as part of the EU, so it's quite good, isn't it?
Take advantage of you rights and use them!

Trip to Paris

Hi again!

This time, we have done a very interesting presentation about a trip we would like to do. We have decided that Paris would be the most appropriate city to go all together to enjoy ourselves and have fun. Moreover, we believe that in Paris there are many different cultures living together. Also, we would take advantage to know each other as a group and it would be interesting to live together few days.

 Here we leave a link where you can see our trip to Paris and enjoy our brilliant plans. If you wanted to visit any day Paris, you should have a look to it and visit all the monuments we have mentioned.

Put some German in you life!

Guten morgen!
As you know know we are in a European project, and apart from English Basque and Spanish, in the first term we have studied some basics of German. We have learnt to do our presentation and to introduce ourselves to others. We think it's so interesting to know something about other languages which are so different. Moreover, we have sung a really funny song.
 Would you be able to understand what we are saying?
Here we go!

Hallo, mein name ist Maddi/Andrea und ich bin sechzehn. Ich komme aus Donostia und ich wohnne in Donostia auch. Ich bin studentin un treibe viel Sport. Ich singe ein Lied in Deutsch.

Ich bin Ausländer und spreche nicht gut Deutsch
Ich bin Ausländer und spreche nicht gut Deutsch
Bitte langsam! Bitte langsam!
Bitte sprechen Sie doch langsam!
Ich bin Ausländer und spreche nicht gut Deutsch

Ich bin Ausländer und spreche nicht gut Deutsch
Ich bin Ausländer und spreche nicht gut Deutsch
Ich versteh' nicht, was Sie sagen.
Ich versteh' nicht, was Sie sagen.
Ich bin Ausländer und spreche nicht gut Deutsch

Much to improve

Hello again!
This time, we are writing to show you our presentation about an European Challenge. They are a lot, such as the crisis, racism, the constitution, regional differences... but we have worked hard on CITIZEN'S RIGHTS.
Here you can see our presentation: Citizen's rights

Do you like it? As you can see, there are different rights and all citizens have not all of them. Is it fair for you? We don't think so. We must work together to improve our rights and to achieve the same rights for all citizens.

We hope you like the presentation!
See you soon!

Enjoy your minority language!

Hello!
 We have been studying with some minority languages because we think that they are very important for the culture of an own country. We have chosen the "Frysk", language which is a language spoken in Friesland, to do a presentation.

We add a link for you to enjoy it!
We hope you like it and learn something new!

minority language: Frysk

 We think that using minority languages help on the development and diversity of a culture. Moreover, our conclusion is that people nowadays speak less minority languages and if we continue in the same way, we will lose them. So we encourage you to speak your mother tongue!