Internet connections are an annual event, running live in Term 1. These interactive websites provide students with a variety of opportunities to increase their knowledge and understanding about issues related to inequalities in development. Participants gain a sense of reality as they link with real people in real situations.

 

Registration and participation is FREE.

 

The websites remain online for ongoing use. They include background information, photos, maps, daily stories or updates, puzzles and recordings of audio conferences. A teacher section contains a summary of the different components of Internet connections.

 

It includes New Zealand curriculum links and suggested learning experiences. Some websites offer simulation games.

 

Each website is supported by other education resources including a video, photo set, FREE posters, and teacher resource folder with student activity worksheets.

Explore water matters and find out about life in Niger by connecting with Abida and three Kiwi young people who live there.

Click here for teacher information.

Go to the Water Matters Connection.

Bring the issue of child labour to your classroom through Arvind, Priya and Sudarmathi's stories from bonded labour (modern day slavery) to freedom. Find out why child labour persists, its impacts and what can be done about it.
Click here for teacher information.

Go to the Born to Be Free Connection

Explore life in Malawi with NZ teacher Marjory Hammond. Find out about daily life for children there and learn about the challenges and responsibilities brought about by HIV/AIDS. Click here for teacher information.

Go to the Circle of Friends Connection

Let's face it - conflict is an everyday thing. Explore why it happens, its impact and what can be done about it. Click here for teacher information.

Go to the Frontline Connection

Meet Navy's family to see how time and seasons affect their daily life. Follow the experiences of family members to understand the longer term impacts of historical upheavals and of recent development. Click here for teacher information and units.

Go to the Cambodia Connection

Visit Gujarat in India to see the devastating effects of the 2001 earthquake and how people rebuild their lives. Click here for teacher information and units.

Go to the Gujarat Connection

Experience the country of Ethiopia, meet the people and learn how World Vision is helping communities work towards food security.

Go to the Ethiopia Connection

Understand daily life for child families in Rwanda - where parents have died, and they must grow up on their own with community support.

Go to the Rwanda Connection

Join New Zealand development workers Peter and Sue Bryan for a typical month in their work with street children in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city.

Go to the Mongolia Connection

Follow New Zealand teacher Pauline McLeod, in her July 1998 trip to Malawi, the country that calls itself “the warm heart of Africa”. See the sights, meet the people and experience daily life for children growing up there.

Go to the Sunflower Connection