Vocabulary


Care is the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.
Environmental is of relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
Homelessness is the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets).
Persecution is hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
Political is of relating to the government or the public affairs of a country.
Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. 
Refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. 
Social is of relating to society or its organizations. 
War is a state of armed conflict between different nations or states, or different groups within a nation or state. 

Purpose - Effects of Homelessness

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When people are homeless their ability to survive and thrive is effected. In this unit children explore how homelessness affects the ability to survive by expanding upon sub-unit 2.1. Particular attention will be given to homelessness resulting from war, persecution, or natural disaster.
Child Asks: How does homelessness threaten the right to survival and development?
Children's Rights Education enables the child to analyze the ways homelessness effects the right to survival and optimal development.
Child Answers: I am grateful for the love and care in my community. 

Classroom Learning Activities

1. Information to come

Relevant Convention Articles

Article 6
1. States Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life.
2. States Parties shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child.
Article 27
1. States Parties recognize the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development.
2. The parent(s) or others responsible for the child have the primary responsibility to secure, within their abilities and financial capacities, the conditions of living necessary for the child's development.
3. States Parties, in accordance with national conditions and within their means, shall take appropriate measures to assist parents and others responsible for the child to implement this right and shall in case of need provide material assistance and support programmes, particularly with regard to nutrition, clothing and housing.
4. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to secure the recovery of maintenance for the child from the parents or other persons having financial responsibility for the child, both within the State Party and from abroad. In particular, where the person having financial responsibility for the child lives in a State different from that of the child, States Parties shall promote the accession to international agreements or the conclusion of such agreements, as well as the making of other appropriate arrangements.

Online Resources and References

National Literacy Trust - A research review: the importance of families and the home environment by Angelica Bonci, 2008, and revised June 2010 by Emily Mottram and Emily McCoy and in March 2011 by Jennifer Cole.