1.  To find out more about 2 charities who work to help poor people have more rights.  The charities do their work because of their religious beliefs.  They are:

2. What are Christian Aid & Islamic Relief?  2 charities who were formed because of religious beliefs.  Both part of the Disasters Emergency Committee (The Disasters Emergency Committee is….)  They raise money to help people in poverty (Poverty is…) What do they believe & why do they do the work they do? They are both religious charities…  Christian Aid is a Christian charity who follow the teachings of Jesus, who said: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’ (The Bible, Luke 10:27)  Islamic Relief is a Muslim charity that follow the words in the Qur’an that say: ‘Whoever saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all humanity.’ Where do they do their charity work?  Both charities work all over the world with lots of different people – even though they are both religious charities, Christian Aid does not just work with Christians & Islamic Relief does not just work with Muslims.

3.  You are going to be working on the internet to find out about the charities ‘Christian Aid’ & ‘Islamic Relief’.  You will have a worksheet to complete.  Some of the activities on the worksheet are compulsory – you have to do them.  The rest of the activities are your choice…  However, each activity is worth an amount of money & you must complete enough activities to earn £1 – This is the average amount that it costs to feed a person for 1 day.  When you have earned £1, you have done all of the activities that you need to do.

4. From what you have found out, what do Christian Aid & Islamic Relief do? Christian Aid & Islamic Relief are charities that do what they do because of their religious beliefs – What do you think of this? Look at Christian Aid’s slogan – What do you think it means? Part of Islamic Relief’s logo is a picture of a mosque – Why? Christian Aid & Islamic Relief help people to have basic rights – What rights that we looked at earlier in this topic are they helping people to have?