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One World Week is a Development Education Charity*. Each year, "The Week" is an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to take action for justice locally and globally.

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One World Week 2013, asks if we have "More Than Enough?"

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Date 17 October 2013 - For Immediate Release

One World Week, 2013, Asks If We Have
"More Than Enough?"

Hundreds of organisers around the country are putting the final touches to their plans for local events in One World Week 2013 (20-27 October). They will bring together local representatives of One World Week's partners from International Development Agencies, environmental and campaigning groups and Faith groups to consider the damage being done to our planet and its people by consumer culture. OWW's theme is asking us to respond to Archbishop Romero's call to "Aspire not to have more but to be more" and to think about how we, as individuals and citizens, could by being more add to the wellbeing of all of us and our planet by addressing the challenges of a warming world, declining resources, growing inequality and unrest.

Organisers are making use of many helpful resources, on the One World Week website, www.oneworldweek.org, and partners' websites, including posters, activities for children and adults, faith-based resources and points for discussion and debate derived from videos and quotations. Leaflets and booklets are also available from the OWW office. Worship resources include a service based on the theme which can be downloaded from the website and customised as desired. Designed for Christian congregations of all ages, it can also be adapted to offer an inclusive experience, with the co-operation of members of various faiths. Christian Aid has produced School Assembly materials on the OWW theme for primary and secondary age groups

A wide range of pledges, which can be downloaded, offers suggestions for everyone to commit to some aspect of being more by the end of the event.

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Media inquiries to:

Mina Comrie, Administrator, One World Week
Telephone: 0118 9394933 / 07976 267367
Email: oww@oneworldweek.org Website: www.oneworldweek.org

Notes For Editors

One World Week is a Development Education Charity. Each year, "The Week" is an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds and organisations to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to take action for justice locally and globally. Thousands of people take part in One World Week events in their local communities across the country. The events are accessible yet the annual themes are designed to be challenging.

OWW's partners include: Black Environment Network, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Fairtrade Foundation, Islamic Relief, Islamic Society of Britain, MADE in Europe, Oxfam, Traidcraft, United Reformed Church's Commitment for Life and the World Development Movement. OWW is a member of Bond, Cyfanfyd, Stop Climate Chaos, Think Global, Trade Justice Movement and the European Global Education Week Network.

In 2013 the theme is "More than Enough? Aspire not to have more but to be more".

OWW is asking people to support or organise events that enable us to consider the damage that is being done to our planet and its people by consumer culture. OWW asks us whether we:

  • have had more than enough of consumer culture getting in the way of relationships with others in our communities and across the globe?
  • have had more than enough of being defined by what we possess?
  • have had more than enough of seeing our planet irrevocably consumed?
  • take more than enough ourselves?

This year, OWW, alongside many of its partners, signed up to support the "Enough food for everyone IF..." campaign which aimed to focus the attention of the G8 Summit of world leaders, in Belfast in June 2013, on tackling the scandal of hunger affecting one in five people on the planet. In OWW, events will bring together people who supported the campaign, and those who felt it did not go far enough, to review the progress made and discuss what to do next.

The quote from Archbishop Romero (assassinated in 1982 for speaking up for the voiceless poor) sets us thinking about what "being more" might involve in today's world. How can we, as individuals and citizens, meet the challenges of a warming world, declining resources, growing inequality and unrest? The quote from the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh): "The best of you is he (or she) who is of most benefit to others" reminds us that all faiths contribute their wisdom towards addressing these challenges.

Each local event is a link in a chain of events happening all round the country in OWW and extending to Europe in Global Education Week. Here from Cheltenham and Cardiff, Settle and Slough, to Holmfirth and Hartley (Kent), Bournemouth to Barrow, there is a rich variety of events. There will be food events; faith events; talks and films about energy, forests and fracking; fairs and film festivals; a speaker tour organised by WDM about financing dirty energy projects and a film tour, "The UK Gold" organised by Christian Aid, Action Aid and OXFAM about Tax, in addition to church services, school assemblies and coffee mornings.

OWW's links to the European Network, which is also examining consumption issues, are part of a wider movement exploring how responsible citizens working together can build a just, peaceful and sustainable world.

For further information about One World Week visit www.oneworldweek.org

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Recently Added Resources

New Funding Opportunity - The Common Good Fund - Application Deadline 27 Feb. 2017 see more here

Organisers' Evaluation form for 2016 events Download from here

Wordsearches for Including You events - download them from here

Press release template for 'Including You' events download here 

Quotations about  building an inclusive peaceful society - Download from here a 5 page booklet as a word.doc or pdf 

Pledges to build an inclusive society - find them here

"Who is a Migrant?" - anactivity/game to get people talking to each other at your events. Download the instructions here 

School Assemblies from Christian Aid- link to and download a PowerPoint and notes 

Looking for a speaker for your event? Download here a list (pdf) from the Discussion page (posted 12 Sept 2016)

Faith resources relating to "Including You".Download pdf here  links to materials offered by OWW's partners and supporters: worship, discussion, films ...plus Prayers for OWW(updated 7 Sept '16)

Presentation "A OWW approach to Migration" Download this PDF version of a 12 slides (15 -20 minutes) powerpoint

Need funding for your event? Apply to Big Lottery Celebrate Fund! NOW or you'll be too late for OWW more here and other suggestions

Poster/ flyer design kit - download from here

2016 Leaflets "Including You" download PDF versions here

Introductory PowerPoint about organising local inclusive OWW events - updated for 2016.  Down load ppt here

Migrant crisis or poverty crisis? - A briefing paper from Global Justice NOW Download as a PDF here

2016 - "Including You" - Booklet of ideas, links and resources for interpreting the theme. Dowload a PDF here (updated July 2016)

Learning resource/activity for young people about peace - from Fly Kites not Drones;   suitable for activites in or out of school. find links here: schools ; activities (added Nov. 2015 but still relevant for this years events)

Organisers' Evaluation Form for event organisers to completand send to OWW - down load the word.doc from here

Event participants feedback form  (for organisers to collect feedback from participants at OWW events)   (word.doc)

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