Monday, May 21, 2018

Caritas Challenge (Week 4)

Hello Guys!!

In this blog today I will be talking to you about the Caritas Challenge. The Caritas challenge is where you stay at school for 24 hours living like people around the world that don't have as much stuff as we do. Caritas have chosen to work on Timor-Leste as the topic for this year.  Timor-Leste is a small country in Southeast Asia. They don't have as much as we do so Caritas decided to help them by doing a Caritas Challenge. We will be participating in this Challenge on Friday 18th of May- 19th of May 2018 for 24 hours. We will start at 9 am on the Friday and finish at 9 am on the Saturday. Here is our timetable of what we are going to do for 24 hours.

9:00-9:30: Roll, Opening Prayer, Safety briefing and expectations for the next 24 hours.
9:30-10:00- MASS
10:00-12:30- Sweat it, service challenge, (2.5 hours)
12:30-1:00- Grace, Packed lunch and play.
1:00-3:00- Move it challenge (2 hours with another school)
3:00-4:00- Sweat it second hand market (All welcome), Move it challenge continued (remaining 1 hour)
4:00-5:30-  Live it challenge (creating shelter)
5:30-6:30- Grace + shared dinner with priests.
6:30-8:30- Caritas Entertainment\ evening activities.
8:30-9:00- Silent Journal reflection of the first 12 hours.
9:00-9:30- Get ready for bed.
9:30-6:00- Sleep time
6:00-7:00- Silent journal reflection time for early risers of overnight experience.
7:00-7:45- Grace, shared breakfast and play
7:45-8:30- Pack up shelters and tidy up.
8:30-9:00- Closing prayer, team discussion of challenge and home time!!

That is what we will be doing for the 24 hours. Over the 24 hours we will be eating but no as much as we do now. The Friday morning we need to have a BIG breakfast as we will not be having morning tea or afternoon tea. For lunch we will need to bring our own but NO PACKET FOODS. For dinner we will be having a bowl of rice. Finally for breakfast we will be having bread and butter. The teachers want this experience to be realistic as possible.

Our goals for this experience are:
To develop our awareness of poverty and social justice.
To enhance our understanding of some of the real issues faced by millions of people in the world everyday through a simulated experience in a safe and enjoyable context.
To raise money for the work of Caritas in alleviating poverty.

So that is all about the 24 hour challenge.  Now I am going to be filling out a reflection that the teachers gave to us to include in our Caritas blog.

Reflection:

1.
Question: Describe your experience of our Caritas Challenge so far. What Does 1 day of difference mean to you?
Answer: During the first 12 hours of this challenge, I learned about homeless people living in Christchurch, How Timor-Leste and other countries\cities\islands need our help and how it feels like living like them. Building the huts to sleep in was pretty hard but while building me me think, What about the people living on the streets with nothing? I'm lucky to have a roof over my head while doing this challenge. 1 day of difference to me means that it's only 24 hours with hardly any thing\stuff like we do at our normal homes. To me I think that this challenge will make a difference to others.

2.
Question: What has been a challenge for you so far during the day and what might be a challenge for during the night?  How did you or how will you overcome this?
Answer: My 3 top challenges during the day were:
Building the huts.
Eating less food.
Less Supplies

Building the huts-  Building the huts was a challenge for me because boxes were falling down, tape wasn't sticking, string rips during tiring and load more. Finally we finished make the hut and it looked pretty good. Hopefully it didn't fall during the night as I wasn't staying. (I was building the hut for my teacher Miss Hansen!!)

Eating Less food- Eating less food was another challenge for me and probably others as we only to to eat 2 meals that day, For Lunch we had to bring it in our lunchboxes with NO PACKET FOODS! For Dinner we had around 2 cups of rice and for breakfast we had bread and butter. We normally have morning tea but it was hard not having that as well as the other meals. It was a great challenge for me and others and hopefully can live like that again maybe in another challenge.

Less Supplies- Having less Supplies during this challenge was pretty hard as with making the huts we had to problem solve. There were less scissors, Less tape and loads more. Finding these things was another challenge as well!

For the challenge overnight it was pretty easy as I didn't stay. If i had stayed my goals were to keep warm, try and think of who I am doing this for and a few more. When I had left later that night I was pretty sad that I didn't stay but I knew that I probably wanted to go home sometime in the night. When I got home I decided to still participate in the challenge by sleeping in my sleeping back in my mum and dad's bedroom with no pillow and on the floor. I loved it!! That made me happy!!

To overcome this I will\would think hard, think of who I'm doing this for and to stay strong.

3.
Question: What connections can you make with the people of Timor-Leste\those living in Poverty from your experience in our Caritas challenge so far?
Answer: My connections to Timor\Leste and Poverty people are.. Eating less food than normal, sleeping on the floor instead of a cozy bed, Building the shelters and having a cardboard box home instead of a real home

4.
Question: What could you do to help those living in poverty in our local community?
Answer:  To help those living in poverty we\I could do do a fundraiser and then donate the money to city mission, donate money, food clothing and more to a charity or city missioner and help them by your age.

5.
Question:  What have you learnt about Social Justice and Empathy while participating in our Kaupeka Caritas Challenge?
Answer: I have learnt that showing Social Justice principals to others is showing them that you care and that how you can be like them.

Here are some photos from our 24 Caritas Challenge!!!






Has your school participated in the Caritas Challenge before?

1 comment:

  1. Bonjour Hannah,

    It's me Olivia your blog buddy,
    It sounds like you had so much fun doing the caritas challenge. I loved all the detail you put into this post. Your timetable looks so busy! When I have been at this school there has been no Caritas challenge, but I do hope do to the Caritas challenge soon.

    Also, here is the answer to your question you asked me 'Did you think about any particular thing when writing this blog post? How come you were away last week like you said in the tech paragraph?' When I was writing that blog post, I was actually thinking about all the fun stuff we are doing this term and also what we did last term. Also, I was actually sick that week at tech, so I didn't get to go.

    Olivia (Your blog buddy from OLA)

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