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Community Action Projects Ideas

Make and donate a quilt depicting children’s rights to a needy child.
Collect food and bring it to a food shelf to stock it.
Recycle cans, bottles, paper and newspapers throughout the school year and bring it to recycling centers.
Conduct a mock non-violent protest.
Create posters depicting articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and hang them in the elementary, junior and senior high school or at school events.
Compile a list of organizations that advance each right under the UDHR for student volunteer opportunities.
Conduct community service work for an hour each week at a food shelf, preschool, or with Meals-On-Wheels and keep a journal.
Create a banner displaying the rights of children and take it to a children’s center on a field trip.
Collect money for UNICEF.
Create a simple human rights lesson and teach it to an elementary level class.
Make collages depicting the student’s rights and responsibilities and display them at school events.
Collectively design a T-shirt depicting human rights. Have students take responsibility for all aspects of the process from colors of the shirt to how much to charge. Sell T-shirts at school events a donate the money to a children’s organization.
Make 1,000 paper cranes and take a field trip to a children’s hospital to present them.
Collect toys and bring them to the empty stocking fund.
Hold a Human Rights Reception, with projects, displays, videos, etc. for parents, other teachers, and classes.
Have groups research a hero or heroine, make visual aids and present reports to younger grade levels.
As a class, think up your own community (local, national or international) action project and implement it.
Create and put on a play on human rights for other classes or parents.
For choir, band or music groups: find traditional music from other countries and cultures to play or sing at a concert giving the audience background explanations.
Create and produce a human rights video and show it to other classes.
Participate in a highway or park clean-up project.
Research a country or specific culture. Find a contact person to interview from that country or culture, form interview questions and report back to the class.
Write letters to the Mayor on an important local issue.
Set up an email/internet relationship with another class in another country. As a class, think of a questions, comments, and answers.
As a class, search for and recognize a local hero or heroine. If possible visit that person or persons at their place of work and invite them to the classroom. Create a certificate or plaque to thank that person.
In groups compile information on the make-up of their community (% African Americans, % Asian Americans, % single parents, average income, etc.) using the library and other resources. As a class, put together a report that will give the students an understanding of their community.