Taking it to action! - step 6, 7 and 8

Our first action was to donate and help the homeless and those in need by giving to City Mission following with our third and fourth action plan. When coming across this we had a disabler during our action, City Mission was not in of need clothes but toiletries, as too many groups from our school had already donated enough clothes, we also agreed on just sticking to our 2nd action (Salvation Army). We then came across our second plan, donating to Salvation Army.

When gathering information about Salvation Army, we were introduced to its history and the founders of the organisation, William Booth and his wife Catherine. They were both a interesting presence to their own organisation, Salvation Army. As they both carried on their company with pride Catherine endured our honor to get up and help her organisation with a quote, "A Salvation that does not lead to service is no salvation at all".

Our idea had become a success and overall was a good outcome. As told to help the community we were overjoyed due to our givings of clothes to this certain organisation. What enabled my group and I to do this was the society themselves as they allowed us to donate our clothing.

To reflect, overall my group and I thought our idea was as good as it sounds and were overly pleased to their reaction. Even though physically walking there was a struggle, we knew not to give up as the homeless go through worse everyday. We are looking forward to helping the community again.

Plan to success - step 5

What can we do!?

Our plans of action towards homelessness

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enabler)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
Discussing with city mission about our positive impact and making sure they agree to our statement we want to do to help with those in need	City mission allowing and giving permission for us to donate	If city mission does not agree with our requirements- if city mission will not accept we could always ask another organisation or society	Caleb- Contacting city mission
Discussing with salvation army about our positive impact and making sure they agree to our statement we want to do to help with those in need	Salvation army allowing and giving permission for us to donate	If Salvation does not agree with our requirements- if they are not impressed then we could volunteer with a charity and help the homeless	Caleb or Emmanuel- Contact Salvation Army
Advertising posters around our school. to persuade  other students and spread the word about homelessness by getting involved  with the 40 hour famine challenge	If all students can be aware of it If teachers can get involved too	If students don't know about it- We could always ask to put the information online e.g. Facebook, school notices, PBL communities yr 10 page, etc.	Emmanuel, Alofa, Shakira, Mr Aitken and Lina
Buying certain goodies to impress hornby students and persuade them to help buy out tickets	Getting students to understand what we are trying to do, to help solve our problem (Homelessness)	Students not buying raffle tickets- we could sell our tickets outside of school e.g. church, neighbors/friends, etc.	Alofa, Shakira, Lina and Emmanuel

Seekers

For PBL(Project Based Learning) all students from the year group 9 and 10 have been told to help the community by having a positive impact and doing something to help make difference. We were introduced to this to expand our knowledge about our project and do something about it, then being questioned, how can we have a desired effect on our community?

To do so we all had to form a group of 3-4 in your from class, as told as we were my group included Alofa, Shakira and Lina. Our next step was to choose a topic and find a way to help and make a difference, agreeing to do a project on the homeless. When we gathered our information we arranged our group name to be "The Seekers". Seekers was a name to be defined as "Looking", looking to find help those in need, looking for a difference to be seen around us or helping and seeking others, for instance, the homeless.

We were then asked, how are we going to solve this issue?

My group and I then all agreed to help by giving or feeding those who are less fortunate in needs of food, clothing, ect.


Links to which had helped us answer our questions:

Website Name	Link	Date we accessed site
Reference	https://www.reference.com/world-view/did-poverty-start-27d6c93f18624c1d	14/11/17
Mission Australia	https://www.missionaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/homelessness-social-housing/what-is-homelessness	14/11/17
The homeless hub	http://homelesshub.ca/about-homelessness/homelessness-101/causes-homelessness	14/11/17
Homelessness	http://depts.washington.edu/triolive/quest/2007/TTQ07033/origins.html	15/11/17
Wikipedia	https://www.google.com/search?q=homeless&rlz=1CAACAJ_enNZ756NZ756&oq=homel&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60j0j69i59j69i60l2.1198j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8	15/11/17

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