WHO WE ARE and What We Do
The Our World Awards gives you the chance to learn more about the developing world and to speak out for a better future for all the world’s people.
Using our Pupil’s Magazine and accompanying lesson plans, you can work on a creative piece showcasing what you learned or what inspired you. You can use writing, artwork, music or film and submit your work for a chance to win one of our amazing prizes for your class.
We also want you to share your ideas and information with your friends and family at school and at home! Everyone in the world, including you, has an important role to play in fighting global poverty and creating a better world. Taking part in the Awards is a good place to start. Are you and your class up to the challenge
The aim of the awards
The Our World Awards seek to enable pupils to learn about the lives of children and their families in developing countries and how Ireland, through Irish Aid, and 192 other countries in the United Nations are working together to create a safer and fairer world, and a better future for all the world’s children. Pupils, as global citizens, can play their part by taking part in the Awards and engaging with these issues.
The Journey
of Awards
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Introducing FOOD FOR LIFE!
The theme for this year’s Our World Irish Aid Awards is Food For Life. We would like to invite pupil’s of 3rd – 6th class to learn about the Global Goals and the work of Irish Aid through the curriculum linked Global Citizenship Education material available to download from our website. Sign up to […]
What our
entrants say
The thing I like best about the Our World Irish Aid Awards is that it can be a completely child-led initiative. As the project can be in any format and on any area related to the theme, you can really hand the reins over to the children and allow them to research, brainstorm, make decisions and direct the project themselves. I am constantly surprised and impressed by the depth of thought that it stimulates in pupils and levels of global citizenship which it allows them to develop. They also enjoy it so much and I think it’s an experience that will stay with them long after they leave primary school.
Cecelia Gavigan
Balbriggan Educate Together National School
I cannot recommend participation in the Our World Awards highly enough. The resources supplied by Irish Aid were the perfect spring board into the world of sustainable global development. The project encompassed all areas of the curriculum and the scope of the project meant that it was child centred at each stage, allowing for a wonderful sense of ownership at the end of the work. The enthusiasm of the participating children, parents and indeed the wider school community which the project created was astounding. A body of work that encourages children to explore the idea that their generation may very well end poverty and be the last generation to address climate change deserves the attention which participation in the Our World Awards facilitates.
Anne-Marie O’Sullivan,
St. Mary’s Convent Primary School, Nenagh
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